Tag Archives : Oracle

Most of us have seen numerous videos on YouTube in regards to the working environment presented at one of the biggest technology companies in the world, Google Inc., and have been mesmerized by the level of amenities and comforts offered by the company to its employees. Now, Universum, a leading consulting group that specializes in employer branding [...]

After hours of speculations and intense discussions, the owner of Sun Microsystems, Oracle Corporation, as per numerous reports has now finally announced that, the company has hired the ex-CEO of Hewlett Packard (HP), Mark Hurd in the capacity of one of the two co-Presidents for Oracle. Along with his responsibility of being the company’s co-President, [...]

After spending more than a week in the spotlight and relinquishing himself of the top job at Hewlett Packard, one of the biggest companies in the corporate world, Mark Hurd, the former CEO of HP has reportedly been in talks with Oracle Corporation for an employment opportunity. Larry Ellison, the CEO of Oracle was seen as a staunch supporter of Mr. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Earlier this week, the much awaited web browser ballot screen that was to be deployed by Microsoft Corporation in its Windows operating systems went live in the European Union and since then, one of the major web browsers, Opera has experienced an exponential growth in the downloads for its browsers. As per the company, Opera launched the all new Opera [...]

Open source expert Tim Yeaton, who is president and CEO of American Black Duck Software, feels that European Commission (EC) should not dirty its hands in the mergers between companies for it is going to cause more damage than good. He feels that EC should not involve itself in the merger of Oracle and Sun nor with the future of MySQL. Interference [...]

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 [...]