Microsoft has announced that it has hired Judson Althoff as its new president of its North America Sales and Marketing, after previously working for 14 years at Oracle. More...

Oracle's most famous product, Java, has a few more woes to add to its past week after a Polish security firm discovered two more potential weaknesses hackers could use in future attacks. More...

A new report claims that Microsoft has decided to take Oracle's side in the company's lawsuit against Google over Google's use of Java in the Android operating system. More...

Another day, another Java security flaw. To quote the movie Wargames, "the only winning move is not to play." In this case, that means to constantly update Java and use it only if absolutely necessary More...

Oracle released a new update for Java over the weekend that fixes some exploits, but security experts believe PC running Java are still vulnerable to cyber attacks. More...

The United States government is warning PC users to disable Java on their machines, as a recently discovered flaw in the latest unpatched version is being exploited in the wild by hackers. More...

As the micro-blogging site continues to grow, more and more people are sharing their thoughts with the world. Last night's presidential debate generated 10.3 million tweets, a new political record. More...

Join us at 2:45pm PT (5:45pm ET) for a liveblog of Larry Ellison's keynote. He'll be joined by Infosys CEO S. D. Shibulal, and they will be discussing the cloud and built-in BI, social, and mobile. More...

Oracle OpenWorld is the annual conference where the company announces its new products and strategies. It's also traditionally the time when CEO Larry Ellison throws his partners under the bus. More...

Oracle will officially be switching to Nokia's mapping and location services. The move was confirmed today and is expected to be publicly announced tomorrow at Oracle OpenWorld. More...

Larry Ellison's keynote at Oracle OpenWorld will begin at 8pm ET/5pm CT. Join us here to see what the company's future plans are regarding Big Data, Cloud Computing, databases, and more. More...

We're on the ground in San Francisco as Oracle finishes up the final setups for the OpenWorld conference. Looking at the setup, it's easy to see what Oracle is selling. More...

Oracle OpenWorld starts next Sunday, and we'll be there to listen to everything Larry Ellison has to say about Java, databases, and their love of Google's products. More...

A security researcher has discovered another zero-day security exploit in Java, one that affects pretty much every Java version across every browser - putting around one billion computers at risk More...

In the continuing argument between Google and Oracle over Java APIs, Google has been requested to pay $0 to Oracle. The judge is also leaving open the possibility of Oracle paying all lawyer fees. More...

A new report claims that the new version of the open source-based OpenOffice software suite gets 87 percent of its downloads from Windows users, with only two percent from Linux users. More...

In a controversial ruling in the Oracle v. Google Java lawsuit, the jury issued a partial verdict in favor of Oracle. The jury's results have prompted Google to motion for a mistrial. More...

The judge presiding over Oracle's lawsuit against Google regarding Google's use of Java revealed that Google lost money on Android during every quarter of 2010, despite revenue of $97.7 million More...

The highest court in the European Union ruled yesterday that programming languages cannot be copyrighted, although original works created from programming languages can be. More...

A new article claims that as part of a settlement offer with Oracle, Google shows that it makes less money off its Android OS than it does offering services like Google Maps to Apple's iOS devices. More...

The world's third-largest software maker could be having more internal issues than previously thought, with a previous explanation being questioned. More...

Oracle has revoked the license allowing vendors to distribute Sun Java with operating systems. Now Ubuntu will, without warning, automatically disable and remove it from your system. More...

Oracle has been ordered to pay out in a settlement after supposedly lying in a contract dating back to 1998, by the General Services Administration. More...

In a new blog post, Google takes aim at Microsoft, Apple and other companies who the company says have engaged in a campaign to attack the success of Google's Android OS. More...

The saga does apparently continue. New developments have occurred regarding the dispute over the use of Java in Android. Google says the Oracle's damage estimate should be thrown out because Oracle set the cost of... More...

HP and Oracle are fighting in court again over a dispute about the processor chip inside one of HP's servers. The BBC reports that HP has filed a lawsuit claiming that Oracle has used "strong-arm... More...

The third day of HP Discover has officially wrapped and today's focus was clearly on unseating Oracle in the enterprise. As such, we saw a presentation on migrating from the Sun/Oracle SPARC architecture to HP's... More...

A prominent figure in the computing world made headlines last year for his thoughts on Flash. Simply, "Flash is evil." Of course, Flash either ran poorly on his company's products, or was completely unsupported on... More...

You may recall the lawsuit Oracle filed against Google towards the end of last summer over what Oracle alleges are bits of intellectual property Google lifted from Sun Microsystems, of which Oracle acquired in 2009.... More...

Oracle announced its intentions to discontinue the OpenOffice.org (OOo) suite of software on Friday 15th. The move does not come as a major surprise, following a 'fork' of the OpenOffice developers several months ago. The... More...

Back in August, Oracle sued Google over alleged use of copyrighted java code in its Android operating system. After Google insisted that the suit was baseless, the case kind of fizzled out. Now, Oracle is... More...

In what is quickly becoming one of the more expensive hiring battles in recent history, Oracle is pulling out all the stops to get Mark Hurd, former HP CEO, to join as co-President. This morning,... More...

A month ago, HP CEO Mark Hurd, resigned after a sexual harassment investigation, and just recently the same Mark Hurd was hired as the co-President at Oracle. HP, however, has a large issue with Hurd's... More...

After a surprising and scandalous fall from grace at HP, former CEO Mark Hurd will now assume the role of co-President at Oracle, according to the Wall Street Journal. Hurd was accused of sexual misbehavior... More...

In what many may consider a surprise move, today Oracle filed a lawsuit against Google. The lawsuit alleges that Google has infringed on the Intellectual Property that has belonged to Oracle since the company acquired... More...

Infoworld is reporting that Sun's enterprise operating system, Solaris 10, is no longer free and is now a 90 day trial. The changed licensing agreement now states the following: "Please remember, your right to use... More...

A computer security expert believes that nine in every ten Oracle databases are vulnerable to an attack that would give hackers access and control over sensitive corporate and government database systems, without the need for... More...

U.S. software company Oracle has been given unconditional approval from the European Union for its $7 billion purchase of computer maker Sun Microsystems, reports Reuters. Oracle was given the go ahead by the U.S. Department... More...

The founder of the popular MySQL database is calling for people to protest against Oracle's attempted takeover of Silicon Valley based Sun Microsystems. Michael Widenius says that the European Commission must block the deal in... More...

Sun Microsystems and Oracle Corporation announced today they have entered into an agreement under which Oracle will acquire Sun. The transaction is valued at approximately $7.4 billion, with Oracle purchasing Sun stock with cash for... More...

A federal judge has ruled that Oracle destroyed or failed to preserve Chief Executive Larry Ellison's e-mail files sought as evidence in a class-action lawsuit filed in 2001 against the software maker. The suit seeks... More...

Business software maker Oracle Corporation has agreed to buy BEA Systems Incorporated for about $7.85 billion, a compromise price that ends a months-long dispute over the value of the software company. In October, Oracle suggested... More...

Oracle has agreed to acquire Netsure Telecom, a provider of network intelligence, analytics and network data integrity software. Netsure's technology is targeted at communications service providers with traditional and next-generation networks, with the company's clients... More...

Oracle issued 45 security fixes for its customers Tuesday as part of its quarterly Critical Patch Update. The 45 patches plug security holes in Oracle Database, Oracle Application Server, Oracle Collaboration Suite, Oracle E-Business Suite... More...

Oracle has plans to deliver 46 security fixes for its customers by July 17. According to an Oracle security announcement, the patches will plug security holes in Oracle Database, Oracle Application Server, Oracle Collaboration Suite,... More...

SAP has admitted its TomorrowNow unit carried out "inappropriate downloads" of documents from its rival Oracle, but said SAP had not accessed the material. Oracle is suing SAP, accusing it of hacking into its... More...

With the aim to further undermine rival SAP, Oracle has agreed to acquire enterprise software firm Hyperion Solutions Corporation for $3.3 billion in cash. Hyperion develops enterprise performance management software that helps companies plan, map... More...

Red Hat has scheduled a March release for RHEL5 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5), the latest version of its open-source operating system, while it tries to fend off new competitive threats from Oracle and the... More...

Oracle gathered partners, customers and press on Wednesday to hail major new versions of all five application sets in its software lineup. Oracle E-Business Suite 12, PeopleSoft Enterprise 9, Siebel CRM 8 and JD Edwards... More...

As a part of its quarterly patch cycle, Oracle released fixes for 51 vulnerabilities that affect its software products. The California company preannounced the patch release on Thursday (for the first time) and released patches... More...