Tag Archives : Oracle Corporation

Goodbye OpenSolaris

Goodbye OpenSolaris

Oracle may discontinue the OpenSolaris package. In an internal circular, the company claims to be concentrated in the commercial version of Solaris, in an attempt to increase the company’s revenue with the sale of servers and other products. The report got a mailing OpenSolaris on Friday, March 14. For next year, Oracle announced the release [...]
Oracle and SAP almost reach an agreement

Oracle and SAP almost reach an agreement

Software maker SAP has taken responsibility for copyright infringement in a lawsuit filed against the company by rival Oracle. SAP said on Thursday it will accept financial responsibility for “mistakes” made by the subsidiary TomorrowNow, Oracle accused of “corporate theft on a grand scale” in the process. Oracle, which competes [...]
Microsoft products are safer than previously thought

Microsoft products are safer than previously thought

Security firm Secunia said in a report that Apple products are more vulnerable than any other company – including Microsoft‘s. The report was released on Thursday (22), and is based on analysis on the companies products in the first half of 2010. In second place comes the Oracle, to then be followed by Microsoft. The statement comes in [...]
Update your Java

Update your Java

A zero-day hole disseminated on the Internet by a Google researcher has begun to be explored. The researcher decided to publish the flaw after the Sun (a company owned by Oracle and is responsible for Java) said it did not consider the problem serious enough to throw out an update cycle of three months that the firm follows. The specialist who discovered [...]
Sun will dismiss 3 thousand employees

Sun will dismiss 3 thousand employees

Over the next 12 months, Sun Microsystems intends to cut 3 thousand employees, according to a document issued by the company to regulatory agencies of the United States on the last Tuesday. According to the company, this was the way found to reverse the damages caused on account of delay in the company’s acquisition by Oracle, which awaits the [...]
Oracle faces some problems with EU

Oracle faces some problems with EU

Antitrust regulatory agencies of the European Union opened an investigation on Thursday to investigate the background of the Sun Microsystems acquisition by Oracle, in s USD 7 billion operation, due to concerns that the deal would threaten competition in the database market. The delay may affect the Sun, the fourth largest maker of computer servers [...]