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Reminiscent of the former U.S./Soviet policy of mutually assured destruction (MAD), Oracle continued its mad dash for enterprise IT industry dominance with an announced $495 million deal to acquire Agile Software Corporation, a leading provider of product lifecycle management (PL... (more)

Oracle announced that Oracle Application Server 10g, a key component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, together with Oracle Database 10g, set a record-breaking result in the SPECjAppServer2004 industry standard benchmark by delivering the highest performance per core across all platfo... (more)

Oracle sued its great rival SAP in a federal court in San Francisco claiming that the German company broke into its computers and stole massive amounts of its customer support material, including copyrighted software updates, bug fixes, patches, custom solutions and instruction d... (more)

EnterpriseDB has announced the availability of EnterpriseDB Advanced Server 8.2. EnterpriseDB Advanced Server is an enterprise-class relational database management system (RDBMS) that is based on PostgreSQL, the world’s most advanced open source database. The latest release... (more)

LAS VEGAS, April 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- . COLLABORATE Conference -- Oracle today announced it has expanded the Oracle PartnerNetwork Applications Integration Initiative (AII) to give partners a strategic option for integrating with Oracle(R) Applications by using Oracle App... (more)

LAS VEGAS, COLLABORATE '07 User Group Conference, April 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Today at COLLABORATE 07, Oracle announced the Oracle Application Integration Architecture, an open, standards-based platform for business process management across Oracle, third- party and cust... (more)

Oracle, which of course has Linux ambitions - and anti-Red Hat ones at that - has become a licensee of the Open Invention Network (OIN), the non-profit IP house set up by IBM to acquire patents and make sure they're available royalty-free to Linux. The real idea is to amass criti... (more)

Oracle, which of course has Linux ambitions - and anti-Red Hat ones at that - has become a licensee of the Open Invention Network (OIN), the non-profit IP house set up by IBM to acquire patents and make sure they're available royalty-free to Linux. The real idea is to amass criti... (more)

On Tuesday it reported fiscal Q3 earnings, up 36% year-over-year to $1 billion, or 20 cents a share, on revenues of $4.4 billion, up 27%, beating its own estimates across all product lines and all geographies. It had predicted a 24%-29% gain in income on revenues of between $4.27 ... (more)

SYS-CON Events announced today that Oracle joined AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 East as "Gold Sponsor." The leading Web 2.0 and RIA event will take place on March 19-21 2007 in New York City. The AJAX evangelist and OpenAjax representative from Oracle will also present a sessi... (more)

“This will represent the most comprehensive business intelligence line compared to Cognos and Business Objects, who tend to have few analytic applications and no database,” said Oracle president Charles Phillips (pictured) as Oracle today announced its biggest softwar... (more)

Progress Software announced additional Ghost Agent components for its Progress Actional service-oriented architecture (SOA) management suite; Actional Ghost Agent for Oracle application servers and the Actional Ghost Agent for JBoss application servers. The Actional Looking Glas... (more)

Oracle will donate what he called its next generation AJAX user interface technology to the open source community. Oracle also announced its plan to support open source scripting communities such as Groovy and Grails and the new JSR-223 specification to enable scripting languages... (more)

Twenty billion-odd dollars later and Oracle's fiscal Q2 numbers Monday were up 26% on the revenues side to $4.2 billion and up 21% on the earnings side to $967 million, or 18 cents a share, but a little light on new database and applications software licenses, up 14% to $1.21 bil... (more)

Oracle has announced that it has increased to Rs. 2,100 per share including interest and has increased to approximately 35 percent the number of shares it has agreed to purchase in the pending open offer of i-flex solutions (Bombay Stock Exchange: IFLX.BO and National Stock Excha... (more)

Oracle has announced availability of the Oracle Enterprise Single Sign-On Suite. The Suite is a component of Oracle Identity Management and helps simplify and improve security by providing single sign-on, access control and password management for virtually any application includ... (more)

Oracle Support Services received two 2006 Software Technical Assistance Recognition (STAR) Awards for superior customer service from the Service & Support Professionals Association (SSPA). The SSPA STAR Awards have become one of the highest honors in the support industry. The awa... (more)

Oracle has announced an open initiative, the Identity Governance Framework (IGF), designed to help organizations better govern and protect sensitive identity-related employee, customer and partner information as it flows across heterogeneous applications. Leading identity vendors... (more)

Oracle has announced that Children's Hospital and Health System has successfully implemented Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Applications to create an integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution that is helping the hospital enhance operational efficiency and productivit... (more)

Kroll Factual Data, a subsidiary of Kroll Inc. and a provider of business information services to the mortgage industry, has announced its migration to Oracle Database 10g and Oracle Real Application Clusters to establish a highly available and scalable foundation for its Web-bas... (more)