Védekezni kényszerül az Oracle a MySQL támogatás áremelése miatt. A cég azt hangsúlyozza, hogy továbbra is van ingyenes változat és az ügyfelek sokkal többet kapnak, mint akkor amikor az adatbáziskezelő még a Sun birtokában volt. A 24/7 támogatás valóban olcsóbb lett, a sokmagos processzorokat tartalmazó kiszolgálók tulajdonosai pedig szemtelenül jól járhatnak a MySQL-el.

Third parties, not Google, would be liable for any Java copyright violations in the Android mobile OS, according to a filing the vendor made Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Some people speculated that Mark Hurd joined Oracle to get back at his former employer, Hewlett-Packard, but on Thursday he described other reasons for taking the job.

Cisco Systems posted gains in both profit and revenue on Wednesday for its fiscal first quarter that ended Oct. 30, despite what it called "a challenging economic environment."

The market for microprocessors, the chips that act as calculating engines inside PCs, servers, laptops and other gadgets, slowed during the third quarter as consumer demand slackened, market researcher IDC said Thursday.

Motorola's mobile phone subsidiary has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft alleging the world's largest software maker has infringed 16 of its patents in PC, mobile and server software, as well as Xbox products.

Oracle's potential damages in its corporate-theft lawsuit against SAP have been reduced by US$500 million following an order from Judge Phyllis Hamilton, SAP said on Tuesday.

The first commercial electronic paper displays that can show color were unveiled Wednesday at the Flat Panel Display International show in Japan. The screens open the way for electronic book readers like Amazon's Kindle and Sony's Reader to add color, but so far only a single Chinese device maker has committed to the technology.

Egy grátisz és egy fizetős változata is lesz a JAVA programnyelvnek. Lehet, hogy lassan mindenki neheztelni fog az Oracle-re?

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison faced tough questioning on the witness stand Monday morning about the effects of TomorrowNow's intellectual-property theft on his company.

Az Egyesült Államok elnöke Bombayben, egy üzleti döntéshozóknak szervezett összejövetelen nyilatkozva kijelentette: idejétmúlt és megalapozatlan sztereotípia az a vélemény, amely szerint az indiai outsourcing szolgáltatások negatív hatással vannak az amerikai foglalkoztatottság alakulására.

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Apple has said it will stop selling its Xserve rack servers early next year, killing a product that has traditionally sold in low quantities.

Mark Hurd may have tipped off former contractor Jodie Fisher about Hewlett-Packard's pending US$13.9 billion EDS acquisition, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal Friday.

Az AOL a szegmensben tapasztalható növekedés ellenére, a pénzügyi év harmadik negyedében sem tudta növelni részesedését az online marketingpiacon. A cég bevételei 26 százalékkal visszaestek - nyeresége mégis nőtt.

Although online advertising is on the upswing and growing this year, AOL's revenue plunged in the third quarter, dragged down by a significant drop in its advertising business

Cloud Sherpas, a provider of services and software for Google Apps, has closed a funding round worth US$1.6 million and will use the money in part to develop vertical-market applications for the cloud-hosted collaboration and communication suite.

A Next nevű weboldal a cég meghatározó embereiről közöl majd történeteket, no és a technológiákról, amiken éppen dolgoznak.

Lawyers for Oracle and SAP made their opening arguments Tuesday in the companies' TomorrowNow lawsuit, with each side giving a very different story to the jury about how damages in the case should be calculated.

Microsoft appears to be preparing to launch a new website called "Next" where it will share information about new technologies it and others are developing.