Richard Adhikari

SAN FRANCISCO — Continuing to build off its multibillion-dollar acquisition of BEA earlier this year, Oracle has updated yet more products by incorporating BEA technology. The updates, unveiled here at Oracle OpenWorld 2008, are to Oracle WebCenter Suite — a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware — and WebLogic Portal 10g Release 3. BEA’s technology is […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Intel and Oracle, which have partnered for 15 years, are heading for the cloud, Intel CEO Paul Otellini announced at Oracle OpenWorld 2008 Tuesday. “Today Intel and Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) are announcing that they’re taking the enterprise aspect of cloud computing and driving it outwards,” Otellini said. The two will work on […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Oracle’s harnessing the power of the grid. Today here at Oracle OpenWorld 2008 at the Moscone Convention Center, the company unveiled a revamped edition of BEA’s WebLogic application server designed for the latest trends in application development and deployment: virtualization, resource consolidation and a focus on efficiency. The new Oracle WebLogic Application […]

SAN FRANCISCO — (UPDATED) Oracle’s got a new stinger to use against Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) market share with Exchange Server and SharePoint products. It’s called Oracle Beehive, which Oracle’s president Charles Phillips described as a collaboration server that runs on Windows, Linux and Unix and supports third party applications. Oracle Beehive has “all the functions […]

So here I am at Oracle OpenWorld 2008, being held through Thursday at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. The first thing that strikes a visitor is that, for Oracle, being bigger isn’t everything, it’s the only thing. “The person who wins in software is the person with a lot of scale,” Oracle president Charles […]

CEO Larry Ellison Olympic swimming champion Michael Phelps will pop in to Oracle OpenWorld 2008, but the emphasis will be on BEA, BEA, and BEA all the way. The conference will be held at the Moscone Conference Center in San Francisco today through Thursday. The emphasis will be on BEA because its middleware products are […]

A federal judge has ruled that a lawsuit filed by IT management software and solutions vendor CA (NASDAQ: CA) against Rocket Software, which creates software on an OEM basis, can go ahead. The suit, initially filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York in May of 2007, claims Rocket […]

The spate of acquisitions, seven since June alone, that Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) has made over the years seems to be paying off. During its earnings call for the first quarter of its fiscal year 2009 today, the database giant’s executives bragged about its triumphs. Net income was up 28 percent to $1.1 billion and revenues […]

On the heels of its announcement that it will cut more than 24,000 jobs as it integrates outsourcing giant EDS, Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) is also reorganizing its software and services offerings. An internal memo from Tom Hogan, senior vice president of HP’s software division, HP Software, obtained by InternetNews.com, said that HP Software will merge […]

Out in the U.K., there’s a cloud appreciation society whose members love clouds and rain. The society is making a documentary about clouds for the BBC. Out at VMworld 2008, VMware’s user conference being held in Las Vega through Thursday, a documentary about clouds of another sort could be made. Everyone, it seems, is coming […]

Activist hackers suspected to be from the group Anonymous have hacked into Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s Yahoo mail account and posted e-mails and photos from it online. Initially, the e-mails and address book were available on Wikileaks.org, a site for anonymous whistleblowers to post documents detailing corporate improprieties or government misconduct. That site […]

A bill that includes anti-cybercrime provisions proposed by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) is awaiting the President Bush’s signature after it passed the U.S. House of Representatives earlier this week. The provisions in the bill would make it easier for federal agencies to pursue cyber criminals, and increase the penalties for convictions of many cyber-crimes. According […]