Oracle News Desk

MySQL has cut a "strategic" co-development/co-marketing deal with NitroSecurity to integrate the high-performance NitroEDB storage engine with the current release of the MySQL database server. It should be ready around the middle of next year so there's no pricing yet. MySQL has b... (more)

As organisations in the healthcare industry in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) must constantly adapt to change, Oracle continues to be the choice for information technology products and services to drive down costs whilst improving patient care. During the 6 months ended Au... (more)

Oracle has announced that Oracle On Demand has surpassed a milestone of more than 1.7 million users, representing more than 2,200 customers. During Q1 FY07, Oracle On Demand revenue grew by nearly 50 percent. This momentum is being driven by a significantly expanded portfolio of ... (more)

A recent IDC study, "Americas Customer Relationship Management Software 2005 Vendor Shares: Top 10 Vendors by Vertical Market," states Oracle's Siebel CRM takes the revenue lead in financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, retail and utilities industries. IDC used market sha... (more)

Open Country announced it has enhanced its award-winning OCM Universal Linux Management Suite to support Oracle’s Unbreakable Linux support program. Oracle Unbreakable Linux program represents an alternative to existing Linux distributions for organizations seeking global, ... (more)

Cumberland Farms, a privately held convenience store retailer with more than 900 locations, has selected the Oracle E-Business Suite to help improve financial reporting and establish a platform for growth across its retail, fuel distribution and property management businesses. Cu... (more)

Oracle has announced that it has been named the leading business analytics software and data warehousing tools vendor based on 2005 software revenues by analyst firm IDC. Oracle's business analytics or Business Intelligence (BI) solutions encompass a comprehensive, integrated set... (more)

A company that has been in stealth mode for roughly 3 years, Brane Corporation, is now taking its first steps in public, and accordingly AJAXWorld Conference speaker and JSF expert Jonas Jacobi (pictured) has just come out into the open about having left Oracle to join Brane's cr... (more)

ASG, a worldwide enterprise software and professional services provider to Global 5000 companies, has announced ASG-Zena, a distributed workload scheduling and automation solution, has achieved integration validation with Oracle’s PeopleSoft Enterprise Applications via the ... (more)

Oracle has announced that it has acquired SPL WorldGroup, a provider of revenue and operations management software for the utilities industry and tax management software for government organizations. SPL delivers solutions for customer care & billing, mobile workforce management,... (more)

Oracle has announced that it has agreed to acquire Stellent, a global provider of enterprise content management (ECM) software solutions, through a cash tender offer for $13.50 per share, or approximately $440 million. With Stellent Universal Content Management, customers can easil... (more)

Day Software, a provider of global content management and content infrastructure software, has announced that it has signed an agreement with Oracle Corporation to develop JSR 170 compliant components within a strategic technology partnership. “Day Software is proud to work... (more)

Oracle has announced that several local governments are now running Oracle Applications - including Oracle E-Business Suite Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise CRM and Oracle's Siebel CRM applications - to support 311 government information syst... (more)

HP, Intel and Oracle have announced a joint initiative to help customers increase business agility and performance, reduce operational cost, and mitigate risk when moving applications from mainframe systems to open standards-based server environments. Introduced at Oracle OpenWor... (more)

Oracle and Intel have announced a joint effort to help accelerate deployment of solutions based on Oracle and Intel technology. This effort builds on a longstanding enterprise computing relationship and is expected to deliver a new level of performance and reliability to customer... (more)

Evidently Oracle CEO Larry Ellison aims to make Red Hat a red smear in the road. He's doing something he's been threatening to do since April and that's to use open source against Red Hat - which apparently ticked him off royally when it bought JBoss. He's going to poach Red Hat... (more)

The Free Standards Group (FSG) and Oracle announced that Oracle has joined the FSG as a platinum member. FSG is a nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening and promoting Linux as a platform for application development. Oracle plans on contributing to FSG's Linux Standard ... (more)

In a move that caused the stock price of Red Hat Inc. to sink in early trading Thursday, Oracle has declared its intention to sell low-cost support services for Red Hat's Linux distro, undercutting RH on price and thereby potentially disrupting its entire business model. Larry El... (more)

Oracle and Intel announced a joint effort to help accelerate deployment of solutions based on Oracle and Intel technology. This effort builds on a longstanding enterprise computing relationship and is expected to deliver a new level of performance and reliability to customers usi... (more)

Addressing the crowd in Oracle OpenWorld, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison unveiled a new program for Linux, Oracle Unbreakable Linux, that provides the same enterprise class support for Linux as it provides for its database, middleware and applications products. "Currently, Red Hat only... (more)