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Tales in Tech History: Oracle

The house that Larry built. Oracle is the creation of one of the IT industry's most colourful characters, Larry Ellison

7 years ago

OpenOffice In Danger Of Retirement, Warns Project Leader

Lack of developers blamed, but others cite poor support from Apache for the Microsoft Office alternative

8 years ago

Oracle, Fujitsu Upgrade SPARC64 X+ Servers

Oracle and Fujitsu continue their relationship with an upgrade to their co-developed Fujitsu M10 servers

11 years ago

Apache OpenOffice Valued at £13m Per Day

Open source Apache OpenOffice is worth £13m a day based on the number of average daily downloads

12 years ago

Oracle Pledges Itanium Support, But Could Still Appeal Court Ruling

Larry Ellison has had to swallow a bitter pill after Oracle announced it would continue supporting HP's Itanium servers

12 years ago

Schwartz And McNealy Clash In Court Over Java APIs

Sun Microsystems co-founder Scott McNealy has clashed in court with Sun's last CEO, Jonathan Schwartz

13 years ago

Oracle Launches New Xeon E5-based Server Lineup

Oracle has unveiled a new lineup of Sun rack and blade systems based on Intel’s new Xeon E5-2600 chips

13 years ago

Why Does Oracle Want Another Storage Provider?

There are three good reasons, says Chris Preimesberger. The IP is good, Larry Ellison can afford it and egos needed…

13 years ago

Cisco Surprise In x86 Blade Server Top Five, IDC Says

IDC takes Cisco into account and finds it is the third-largest blade vendor, passing Dell but trailing HP and IBM

13 years ago

Oracle’s 37% Revenue Growth Exceeds Expectations

Larry Ellison cites an upsurge in new business, largely as a result of last year’s Sun Microsystems buy

14 years ago

Fujitsu And Oracle Extend Long-Term Sparc Partnership

Oracle and Fujitsu promise Sparc-based Unix servers 15 times faster than today's models

14 years ago

Breakaway Group Launches LibreOffice 3.3 Suite

The group that broke away from OpenOffice.org has launched its first version of the LibreOffice suite

14 years ago

Patent Evidence Grows Against Google’s Android

Oracle's claim that Google broke Sun's Java patents is backed by code, says an expert

14 years ago

Oracle Makes MySQL 5.5 Database Generally Available

Despite previous fears over Oracle's commitment to MySQL, the company has made the new version of the open source database…

14 years ago

IBM Claims Record Migrations From Competitors In Q3

IBM claims 400 Oracle/Sun and HP migrations to its servers and storage systems in the last quarter

14 years ago

Oracle Snaps Up Art Technology Group for £624 Million

Oracle is once again splashing the cash, this time over half a billion pounds for e-commerce software provider Art Technology…

14 years ago

Sun’s ZFS Creator to Quit Oracle and Join Startup

Jeff Bonwick is leaving Oracle. Known as the father of ZFS, the innovative file system in the Solaris operating system,…

14 years ago

OpenOffice.org Community Declares Independence

Members behind the Openoffice.org community have broken from Oracle under the name LibreOffice

14 years ago

Why I Quit “Creepy” Oracle: The Father Of Java James Gosling Speaks Out

Talking exclusively to eWEEK, Java creator James Gosling opens up on a series of issues he declined to make public…

14 years ago

Performance Of MySQL 5.5 Release Candidate Praised

MySQL 5.5 release candidate got high marks for its performance enhancements from analysts at the Oracle OpenWorld conference

14 years ago

HP Settles ‘Kickback’ Investigation With £36 Million Fine

HP is to cough up $55 million (£36 million) in order to settle claims that it participated in a kickback…

14 years ago

Oracle SPARC Server Road Map Holds Promise

Oracle executives are finally talking about plans for the high-end Sun SPARC servers. Now they need to execute on those…

14 years ago

Oracle Outlines SPARC And Solaris Road Maps

Oracle officials say Solaris 11 will arrive in 2011, and SPARC performance will at least double every other year until…

14 years ago

Surprise Survey Says MySQL And Java Will Prosper At Oracle

Despite widespread concern over Oracle's acquisition of Sun, a survey has actually found renewed interest in Java and faster growth…

14 years ago

Cisco Hires Former Sun VP As Cloud CTO

The appointment of Lew Tucker is a clear sign to competitors that Cisco is serious about getting deep into the…

14 years ago

Oracle To Axe Sun Workforce, Again

Oracle is looking to make yet more job cuts in the wake of its acquisition of Sun Microsystems, according to…

14 years ago

Oracle Outlines Plans For MySQL Database

Oracle exec Edward Screven talked to eWEEK about the future of MySQL, InnoDB and the beta release of version 5.5…

15 years ago