Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has remade the company via acquisitions. Oracle has acquired a bevy of companies such as Siebel Systems, PeopleSoft, BEA Systems and others to become a significant applications player. Meanwhile, Oracle remains the database leader and displays strength in middleware. Oracle's next frontier: Hardware. The acquisition of Sun Microsystems could position Oracle as "T.J. Watson's IBM" or be a big headache.
Organizations from a range of sectors are already using the service, including customers in banking, supply chain management, agriculture and banking.
Oracle has new fixes available for Spectre flaws affecting Linux systems on Intel and AMD chips.
The company is ploughing resources into increasing local market share in the segment
"We've developed these new technologies, machine learning, voice and mobile, so we could voice-enable all of our applications," said Oracle CTO Larry Ellison.
Following its acquisition of Dyn, Oracle is giving internet users a taste of its data-as-a-service capabilities.
Oracle announced availability of a number of platform services with built in automation earlier this year, and is now expanding the services to more clouds.
Online collaboration has become a critical driver in business success—but which tool is the best fit for your organization’s needs? This side-by-side comparison chart will give you a snapshot view of what...
As part of Oracle's efforts to provide more automation, it's offering customers a package of automated migration tools bundled with consulting services.
What is the real impact of digital transformation on IT and the Chief Information Officer? This summary goes in-depth on what you need to know.
The logistics firm spoke with ZDNet about how having the board and senior executives backing IT enabled a digital transformation, starting with ERP.
The new integrations with 6sense, Demandbase, LookBookHQ, and Mintigo are aimed at helping sales teams find the best buyers and close deals faster.
The moral? Don't roll your own crypto, security researcher tells Oracle.
Accenture says that the buyout will help clients become "intelligent enterprises."
"We want CRM," says SAP CEO Bill McDermott. SAP's chief has some valid points and perhaps CRM needs reinvention. The question is whether SAP has the next-gen CRM approach or is it a robotics process automation player.
Grapeshot is the company behind a "brand safety" platform used by marketers.
Fixes for vulnerabilities spread across 20 products and a Solaris patch that addresses the Spectre processor flaw.
The stands, the smartphones, the smartwatches, and the smartcars.
Here's a step-by-step guide to get Windows XP running on an Oracle VirtualBox-based virtual machine on Linux Mint
Amid a serious security flaw in the latest version of Java 7, where even the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has warned users to disable the plug-in, here's how you do it.
A compendium of photos from Oracle OpenWorld 2012. Unseasonably warm weather, meetings with Oracle executives and customers, and a variety of activities made this year's OpenWorld fun and interesting. Although there was some controversy among analysts and bloggers, the photos show a rich and diverse event.
In court, Oracle outlined its Java copyright and patent infringement case against Google with a series of 91 convincing slides
Oracle uses it OpenWorld 2010 to showcase new products and its new president, Mark Hurd.
ZDNet Australia recently attended Oracle OpenWorld 2010. Here are a few highlights from the opening day, which included Iron Man suits, Polka Bands and BMX bikes.
There are large conferences, and then there is Oracle OpenWorld. A mega-conference that sees over 40,000 attendees descend on San Francisco.
Sun Microsystems' latest Open Source desktop virtualization software.
Australia's largest annual security conference, AusCERT, is underway for another year, and continues the tradition of bringing security gurus, vendors and members of government under one roof.
When the third major release of the OpenOffice.org office productivity suite made its appearance on Monday, the OpenOffice.org servers promptly crashed. Check out this gallery to see what's new.
Business apps are coming to the iPhone and Oracle and Salesforce are out in front. See Larry Dignan's blog for more.
The two latest and greatest free commercial host-based virtualization products from Sun and VMWare
This year's linux.conf.au conference, held at Melbourne University, was an all out Linux free-for-all. Highlights include images of the new XO Linux laptop and an interview with Linus Torvalds.
Project Blackbox is the first virtualised datacentre to be stored in a shipping container, and according to its manufacturer, Sun Microsystems, it's fully portable -- providing you have the means to tow it.
At Oracle Media Day, a live demo showed how an employee can use an Amazon Echo device integrated with Oracle's HR application to ask Alexa how many vacation hours they have available, to request time off on a certain day, or even find out why there was extra money in their paycheck this period.
Fixes for vulnerabilities spread across 20 products and a Solaris patch that addresses the Spectre processor flaw.
After introducing "adaptive intelligence" to its Customer Experience Cloud earlier this year, Oracle is demonstrating at OpenWorld how it's expanding its AI reach across applications.
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A recent investor downgrade is shining the spot light on Oracle this week but is it really justified? How can the company overcome the concerns of both investors and customers? Watch ZDNet Irregular Enterprise editor Dennis Howlett as he explains what's happening, what it means, and what's next for the world's second largest software company.
Oracle President Charles Phillips unveils the company's new systems strategy in front of analysts at its headquarters in Redwood Shores, Calif. Phillips says the company is looking to model itself after the 1960s IBM by working on building complete, integrated platforms, but developed with open system components.
We get the goss from Oracle Australia and New Zealand chieftain Ian White on the sidelines of the technology giant's gargantuan OpenWorld confab in the United States last week.
As Oracle gets bigger and bigger, one question remains unanswered: what type of company is Oracle?
Senior Editor Sam Diaz shares his thoughts on Oracle's recent $7.4 billion purchase of Sun Microsystems. He says Oracle is positioning itself to come in as a one-stop player, complete with business hardware and business software. The deal could also help spur other tech mergers to keep pace with the likes of Oracle.
ZDNet senior editor Sam Diaz talks to Eliot Arlo Colon, president of Miro Consulting, discussing the ins and out of software licensing agreements with companies like Oracle. Colon shares his views on new Web 2.0 software and how businesses can get an edge in the negotiating process.
Oracle demos a new enterprise 2.0 application at the JavaOne Conference in San Francisco on Wednesday. Oracle executives Thomas Kurian and Peter Moskowitz show how Java changes an order entry application into a collaborative Web 2.0 environment.
Sun Microsystems demos new JavaFX powered applets at its annual JavaOne Conference in San Francisco Tuesday. Danny Coward and Ken Russell of Sun's Java SE team show how the new applets can be deployed within a Web browser or dragged over to the desktop.
Sun Microsystems demos two new JavaFX-powered applications, Photo Flocker and Movie Cloud, at its annual JavaOne Conference in San Francisco Tuesday. Rich Green, the company's executive vice president of software, shows attendees Photo Flocker, an app that allows users to search for photos by tags and display the photos in a montage. He also previews Movie Cloud, a 3D organization tool displaying dozens of HD videos at one time.
Legendary musician Neil Young shows off a new multimedia project spanning his music career. Joining Young onstage at the JavaOne Conference in San Francisco to demo the project--which uses Java and Blu-ray technology--is Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz and Rich Green, Sun executive vice president of software.
At Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison delivered his first keynote since Oracle's move to buy Siebel. He tried to allay concerns that the planned takeover could eliminate Siebel on Demand and delay the release of Project Fusion, which will combine acquired products with Oracle's own applications.
Sun Microsystem's Sun Fire X4275 is an excellent all-rounder, although we'd love it if the noise could be cut down a little more.
For raw power Sun Microsystem's Sun Fire X4450 is the gutsiest server we've seen, and at 2RU it's compact considering its specs. However, priced at over AU$27,000, this machine will make a dent in your budget.
OpenOffice.org 2.4.0 is a free, open source alternative to Microsoft's Office application suite. It is fantastic if you need basic office applications — such as a word processor or spreadsheet — at no cost. However, large organisations and power users may be disappointed by its lack of features and support.
IBM's DB2 database adds several powerful new tools in version 9 including native XML support and DB2 Developer Workbench, and offers serious competition to Oracle and Microsoft.
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