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In the 20th century, corporations recruited talented professionals but then nurtured them and integrated them into their organizations. Talent was part of their business foundations. In the more intricate economy

Certainly the theory that Oracle had no plans for Sun Microsystems following its acquisition, has been completely deflated. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison always wanted to be able to deliver database

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has been in love with the idea of "all-in-one" and "out-of-the-box" since before the turn of the century. In Matthew Symonds' portrait of Ellison entitled Softwar,

It will amount to being publicly shamed, and although Oracle gave SAP an escape hatch, it purposely made that hatch too small to crawl though. In a deal announced yesterday,

It's been a crazy conference week with VMworld and Dreamforce '11 going on at the same time. News from those shows have been all over ReadWriteWeb's channels this week, like

The changes in U.S. copyright law over the past three years affect the way damages are assessed. When a party is found guilty of infringement of copyright (which runs deeper

Earlier this week Oracle took the wraps off of Oracle VM 3. Oracle's Adam Hawley, senior director of product management, says that Oracle VM 3 is ready to roll out

Oracle continued its acquisition spree this week by snapping up Ksplice, a company that sells a zero downtime update technology for Linux. Ksplice enabled system administrators to apply updates

Yesterday the news about Oracle acquiring Fatwire motivated me to reconnect with Fatwire's CEO, Yogesh Gupta. Gupta is an interesting guy on several levels. First, he has been around tech

Oracle announced today that it will acquire FatWire. Financial details were not disclosed. FatWire bills itself as customer experience management company and provides tools for content management, community forums,

The iPad isn't just a hot new consumer device, it's also an increasingly popular tool for business. Each week we take a look at the new or updated business apps

Global enterprise software revenue increased 8.5% to $245 billion in 2010 according to Gartner. Enterprise software sales declined 2.5% in 2009, so this is encouraging growth for enterprise software

Oracle made the announcement today that OpenOffice will become a community project and no longer a commercial endeavor. It's not a surprising move. But it does feel like a victory

Earlier today we told you about how the Hadoop business is heating up. Hadoop isn't a database, but Hbase and its alternatives are a core part of the platform.

Ever since the term "Web 2.0" started to catch-on, people have been speculating as to what "Web 3.0" will be. Briefly stated, Web 1.0 was the Static Web and

Over the weekend we told you about Oracle's killer quarter. One of the interesting things about how well Oracle is doing is that a large part of the company's

RedMonk's Stephen O'Grady challenges the conventional wisdom that Java is dying - a position typified by recent comments from Forrester analysts. O'Grady acknowledges that although Java has peaked in

We ran two stories earlier today on the state of Java and its complex partner ecosystem. We looked at a report from Forrester analysts John R. Rymer and Jeffrey

Java is binding IBM and Oracle more closely than ever before and are forming the core for a new Java oligarchy that also includes Red Hat and other providers.

Oracle is taking such lengths to control Java's future that companies need to start looking at alternatives such as .NET, Platform-as-a-Service and the Open Web. In a report issued

Last week we took a look at several business analytics related predictions from analysts from Forrester and Gartner. This year's analytics product announcements are off to an interesting start,

Microsoft, Oracle and SugarCRM have all launched campaigns to convert Salesforce.com customers this week at Dreamforce. Will billboards, Segways, discounts and carolers (yes, carolers) be enough to sway users?

SAP has been ordered to pay $1.3 billion to Oracle - the largest fine ever levied for a copyright infringement case. According to Bloomberg, in 2002, the Recording Industry

Forrester recently found that among the 5,519 information workers the firm polled in US, Canada, the UK, France, and Germany, only 27% would recommend their employer's products or services

Today Oracle announced its intent to acquire e-commerce company ATG. In addition to typical online retail features, ATG offers analytics, click-to-call and call tracking features that will compliment Oracle's