Oracle News & Articles

No good news came from the G-side this week. Rumor has it that project Titan (Facebook's alleged e-mail service) will be officially announced on Monday. Meanwhile, FOX joined ABC, CBS and NBC in blocking Google TV, and the battle with Oracle continued with no sign of stopping. 

Just like it went on with SAP and Microsoft in the past, Open Text (news, site) has gotten cozier with Oracle in a recent partnership deal.

Another busy week in the world of Document Management. With Windows Phone 7 offering email archiving by LiveOffice and Open Text and Oracle getting together for large volume email capture amongst other things, email has been the theme of the week. In other news, EntropySoft releases a SAP connector, while Box.net gets electronic signature.

Quick! How many tabs are open in your browser window right now? Of those open, how many of them are web-based applications designed to help you communicate, collaborate or manage content? If you’re like many knowledge workers, chances are you employ many disconnected technologies on a regular basis. However, things may soon change. 

The infamous Gartner (news, site) released this year's Magic Quadrant for Social Software in the Workplace, and the results were all kinds of surprising. Meanwhile, the Oracle (news, site) drama continues after 33 OpenOffice developers were asked to leave. 

Oracle (news, site) continues its charge to buy what it hasn’t already developed itself. This time, in its ninth acquisition of 2010, it has just agreed to buy e-commerce company ATG Technology for close to US$ 1 billion.

Security is an issue again this week with the publication of Coverity’s Scan 2010 Open Source Integrity Report which asks whether your Android is safe or not. Oracle upgrades its GRC offerings and we take a look at risk management in the enterprise.

With many enterprises looking to business process management for cost savings, the publication of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for BPM solutions will enable enterprises to assess the good, bad and indifferent in a market brimming with talent.

We've all been watching, wondering if and for how long Oracle and LibreOffice's (news, site) relationship would remain amicable. After only two weeks, any signs of a positive relationship have disappeared as OpenOffice staff pack their things and leave.

A few months ago, we’ve pondered the future of MySQL post the Oracle/Sun acquisition. Our verdict was: the MySQL market was where it was getting hot, with MySQL caught in crossfire.

The MySQL kitchen just got even hotter with more cooks joining. Meet SkySQL – a company built by the original, pre-Sun, pre-Oracle MySQL family of veterans.

Only four days before SAP and Oracle were to meet in an Oakland courtroom concerning a case brought by Oracle against SAP over copyright infringements, SAP has admitted contributory liability. The latest filing is a dramatic change from its previous position where it admitted wrongdoing by its subsidiary, TomorrowNow, but not by SAP itself.

With Oracle and SAP pitted against each other and Oracle turning in some impressive results for Q3 in September, everyone was waiting to see what SAP’s figures would produce. The figures show a profit after tax of US$ 697 million (€501 million), up 12% from Q3 last year, along with a few noteworthy comments.

The past week in the enterprise was full of cool little twists and turns. First, Skype released version 5.0 of their platform (complete with a Facebook tab), and then an unconventional take on microblogging hit the scene. 

GRC this week is dominated by compliance and risk and moves in the compliance market, including the acquisition of e-Discovery vendor PSS by IBM. Oracle has also been busy looking at risk and data management, while Varonis offers Exchange audit and monitoring.

As LibreOffice gains momentum, Oracle (news, site) asserts that the company will stick to its commitment to the OpenOffice.org project.