http://www.osnews.com/ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams OSNews version 4 donotreply@osnews.com (Adam Scheinberg) donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Sat, 25 May 2013 17:05:09 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com/ 120 http://www.osnews.com/story/25834/Ellison_Oracle_pondered_buying_RIM_Palm/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25834/Ellison_Oracle_pondered_buying_RIM_Palm/ "Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said the software maker had considered building its own smartphone to compete with Apple and Google but decided it was a 'bad idea' after a weeks-long cost and market analysis. As part of that exhaustive internal analysis, he said, Oracle had pondered at one point buying Blackberry-maker RIM and Palm." So, Larry (likely after consulting with his best friend Jobs) decided to try to extort money from Google instead - which isn't working out either. Did you analyse that, too, Larry? Tue, 17 Apr 2012 22:11:47 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Oracle and SUN 17 http://www.osnews.com/topics/7 News http://www.osnews.com/story/25322/Solaris_11_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25322/Solaris_11_Released/ I just emerged, blinking, from the world of Skyrim, only to realise Sun Oracle has released the 11th version of Solaris (well, technically it's the 7th, but okay, we'll roll with it). I'll be honest and upfront about it: Solaris is totally out of my league, and as such, it's very hard for me to properly summarise what this release is all about, so I won't even try. Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:45:26 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Oracle and SUN 81 http://www.osnews.com/topics/7 News Straylight http://www.osnews.com/story/25310/Oracle_To_Buy_webOS_/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25310/Oracle_To_Buy_webOS_/ Now that Hewlett-Packard appears to be a little tipsy, not really knowing where it is and what it's doing, Reuters is reporting that the company is working on selling its webOS operating system. HP acquired webOS as part of its purchase of Palm, made a big fuss about the whole thing, and then let it fizzle out. The company rumoured buy webOS? Oracle. Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:25:13 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Oracle and SUN 47 http://www.osnews.com/topics/7 News http://www.osnews.com/story/25221/Ellison_There_ll_Be_Nothing_Left_of_IBM_Once_I_m_Done_/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25221/Ellison_There_ll_Be_Nothing_Left_of_IBM_Once_I_m_Done_/ "Oracle has pulled the rug out from under Intel's Itanium processor by yanking support of its database, middleware, and application software on future Poulson and Kittson Itaniums. It looks as though Larry Ellison wants to take on IBM in microprocessors for data center systems, man to man, head to head. 'I remember when we first bought Sun, a lot of people said we were going to get out of the hardware business," Oracle's co-founder and CEO said opening up his keynote at the OpenWorld customer and partner and conference on Sunday night, when he also announced the new Exalytics in-memory BI appliance. 'I guess we didn't get that memo,' Ellison quipped, pointing out that Apple is doing a 'pretty good job' designing its own hardware and software and making it work well with its own services. And that Oracle is not only committed to making its server, storage, and networking business work, but having taken Sun's hardware as a means of getting its hands on Solaris and Java, Oracle is actually enthusiastic about creating its own stack." Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:36:49 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Oracle and SUN 36 http://www.osnews.com/topics/7 News twitterfire http://www.osnews.com/story/24808/Oracle_Calls_It_a_Day_Gives_OpenOffice_to_Apache_Foundation/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24808/Oracle_Calls_It_a_Day_Gives_OpenOffice_to_Apache_Foundation/ "Today we welcome Oracle's donation of code that has previously been proprietary to the Apache Software Foundation, it is great to see key user features released in a form that can be included into LibreOffice." Wed, 01 Jun 2011 19:22:16 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Kroc Camen) Oracle and SUN 35 http://www.osnews.com/topics/7 News sjvn http://www.osnews.com/story/24166/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_4_0_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24166/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_4_0_Released/ Oracle VM VirtualBox enables desktop or laptop computers to run multiple operating systems simultaneously, and supports a variety of host operating systems, including Windows, Mac OS X, most popular flavors of Linux (including Oracle Linux), and Oracle Solaris. Version 4.0 delivers increased capacity and throughput to handle greater workloads, enhanced virtual appliance capabilities, and significant usability improvements. Support for the latest in virtual hardware, including chipsets supporting PCI Express, further extends the value delivered to customers, partners and developers. Thu, 23 Dec 2010 22:49:22 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Oracle and SUN 20 http://www.osnews.com/topics/7 News HAL2001 http://www.osnews.com/story/24156/Oracle_Takes_on_Microsoft_Google_with_Cloud_Office/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24156/Oracle_Takes_on_Microsoft_Google_with_Cloud_Office/ "Oracle on Wednesday announced the availability of Cloud Office 1.0, a Web-based productivity suite that is set to give online applications from Microsoft and Google a fresh dose of competition. Cloud Office is integrated with the on-premises Oracle Open Office, of which version 3.3 was also announced Wednesday. Like Open Office, Cloud Office is based on ODF (Open Document Format). It provides a set of spreadsheet, text and presentation applications and is compatible with Microsoft Office, according to Oracle." Tue, 21 Dec 2010 22:20:08 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Oracle and SUN 6 http://www.osnews.com/topics/7 News fran http://www.osnews.com/story/24113/McNealy_to_Ellison_How_to_Duck_Death_by_Open_Source/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24113/McNealy_to_Ellison_How_to_Duck_Death_by_Open_Source/ In an interview that gives some deeper insight into the fall of the company, ex Sun boss Scott McNeally talked to Gavin Clarke of The Register. "Sun was the fastest growing US company between 1985 and 1989, according to Forbes, and supplied the entire US government with more than half its workstations nine years after starting." Wed, 08 Dec 2010 23:11:20 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Oracle and SUN 12 http://www.osnews.com/topics/7 News fran http://www.osnews.com/story/24098/Oracle_Highlights_Solaris_Unix_Plans/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24098/Oracle_Highlights_Solaris_Unix_Plans/ Oracle executives talked up on Thursday the planned Solaris 11 release due in 2011, with the Unix OS upgrade offering advancements in availability, security, and virtualization. The OS will feature next-generation networking capabilities for scalability and performance, said John Fowler, Oracle executive vice president of systems, at a company event in Santa Clara, Calif. "It's a complete reworking of [the] enterprise OS," he said. Oracle took over Solaris when the company acquired Sun Microsystems early this year. Sun, 05 Dec 2010 20:33:31 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (David Adams) Oracle and SUN 19 http://www.osnews.com/topics/7 News dylansmrjones http://www.osnews.com/story/24037/Oracle_Solaris_11_Express_2010_11_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24037/Oracle_Solaris_11_Express_2010_11_Released/ Today Oracle released its latest version of Solaris technology, the Oracle Solaris 11 Express 2010.11 release. It includes a large number of new features not found in either Oracle Solaris 10 or previous OpenSolaris releases including ZFS encryption and deduplication, network-based packaging and provisioning systems, network virtualization, optimized I/O for NUMA platforms and optimized platform support including support for Intel's latest Nehalem and SPARC T3. In addition, Oracle Solaris 10 support is available from within a container/zone so migration of existing systems is greatly simplified. The release is available under a variety of licenses including a supported commercial license on a wide variety of x86 and SPARC platforms. Mon, 15 Nov 2010 23:37:16 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Oracle and SUN 60 http://www.osnews.com/topics/7 News comay http://www.osnews.com/story/23662/Oracle_Finally_Realises_Some_News_is_Good_News_/ http://www.osnews.com/story/23662/Oracle_Finally_Realises_Some_News_is_Good_News_/ For the first time since Sun was eaten by Oracle there was an email in my inbox today promising news and updates from the transition. As a valued member of the Sun community, we'd like to make sure you keep abreast of all the latest as we transition to Oracle. A lot of great things will be coming from the combination of Oracle and Sun and you'll want to stay informed! Here's your chance to keep up to date. Simply follow the link below and tell us a little more about yourself to receive news and information about products and events from Oracle. Maybe they are finally realising that we won't wait around forever. Time will tell if this will be substantial. The phrase 'a little slow on the uptake' leaps to mind. Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:29:55 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (David Adams) Oracle and SUN 16 http://www.osnews.com/topics/7 News philip.may http://www.osnews.com/story/23469/Solaris_OpenSolaris_and_the_Oracle_Wall_of_Secrecy/ http://www.osnews.com/story/23469/Solaris_OpenSolaris_and_the_Oracle_Wall_of_Secrecy/ Sometimes, Google's search engine does a better job of telling us about IT vendors than the vendors' own public relations and marketing machines, which are often there mostly to deflect questions rather than answer them. So it is with the next commercial and development iterations of Oracle's Solaris Unix operating system. Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:10:43 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (David Adams) Oracle and SUN 44 http://www.osnews.com/topics/7 News Jeremy Prince http://www.osnews.com/story/23181/Oracle_Starts_Charging_90_USD_Per_User_for_ODF_Plugin/ http://www.osnews.com/story/23181/Oracle_Starts_Charging_90_USD_Per_User_for_ODF_Plugin/ When Oracle announced its intentions to buy Sun Microsystems, many were worried about the future of Sun's large open source software portfolio, which includes things like Solaris, Java, MySQL, and more. It seems like Oracle is still struggling with what to do with the large body of products Sun entails; they've started charging 90 USD per user for the Microsoft Office ODF plugin. Tue, 20 Apr 2010 20:24:50 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Oracle and SUN 95 http://www.osnews.com/topics/7 News Governa http://www.osnews.com/story/22931/Microsoft_Oracle_Will_Take_Us_Back_to_1970s_Hell/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22931/Microsoft_Oracle_Will_Take_Us_Back_to_1970s_Hell/ Microsoft's server and tools chief Bob Muglia has chided Oracle for peddling a return to '1960s computing', accusing its rival of going against industry trends and backing a dying and expensive operating-system architecture. "There are some things that Oracle is doing that I just shake my head at," Muglia told financial analysts attending the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco, California, "I don't understand what's going to happen - what they think they're going to do with Sparc. I don't see how Sparc can live long-term." Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:09:36 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Oracle and SUN 24 http://www.osnews.com/topics/7 News http://www.osnews.com/story/22833/Sun_CEO_Announces_Resignation_on_Twitter/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22833/Sun_CEO_Announces_Resignation_on_Twitter/ Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz, an advocate of Web 2.0, used Twitter early Thursday to announce his resignation. He was named CEO in 2006 as Sun faced a switch in strategic direction away from proprietary systems and toward open source code, including its valued Solaris 10 operating system. "Today's my last day at Sun. I'll miss it", he said in a tweet to his followers, reported the New York Times on its Web site at 1:12 a.m. Thursday. He added a bit of haiku: "Financial crisis, Stalled too many customers, CEO no more." Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:12:07 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Oracle and SUN 23 http://www.osnews.com/topics/7 News