Red Hat disses Oracle, and expounds on its open source strategy. It’s been said that Oracle is now the industry’s most powerful open source vendor, but don’t tell that to Red Hat executives, who say ...

The specter of open source forces large software vendors to stay on their toes and nurtures innovation, an Oracle official said during a presentation at TheServerSide Java Symposium on Thursday ...

Oracle expects to complete the Fusion applications suite in 2008. Moving to the next-generation platform built on service-oriented architecture (SOA) means closely monitoring and mapping out business ...

Oracle Corp. put out a 19-page white paper last month that pilloried the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments for thinking open source software can save money. “At first glance it might seem that ...

The success of Linux and other open source projects has depended heavily on the support and investment of major IT companies, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said on Thursday. “Open source becomes successful ...

The open-source Oracle Call Interface 8 driver repairs a flaw that led to PHP-based Web apps overwhelming Oracle databases with requests Oracle has released a database driver free to the open-source ...

The first and most obvious benefit to Oracle will be with enterprise database offerings. Solaris running on SPARC-based equipment has always been a preferred platform for Oracle databases. This ...

The European Commission on Monday issued its formal "statement of objections" over Oracle's planned acquisition of Sun Microsystems, saying the deal would harm competition in the database market.