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Oracle Claims Taleo's Cloud-based Talent Management Jackpot
By Scott M. Fulton, III / February 9, 2012 8:00 AM / 0 Comments

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

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Larry Ellison Leads Oracle Into the 1990s and Beyond
By Scott M. Fulton, III / October 3, 2011 10:09 AM / 0 Comments

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

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Sun Fire and UltraSPARC Live On in Oracle Database Appliance
By Scott M. Fulton, III / September 21, 2011 11:09 AM / 0 Comments

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,

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SAP to Settle Copyright Abuse Charges by Oracle
By Scott M. Fulton, III / September 9, 2011 6:06 AM / 0 Comments

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,

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Friday Roundup: Court Tosses Oracle Award, App Engine Pricing, Fake IDs, Seesmic and More...
By Joe Brockmeier / September 2, 2011 4:00 PM / 0 Comments

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

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Court Tosses $1.3 B Oracle Award, SAP Gets a Second Chance
By Scott M. Fulton, III / September 1, 2011 4:05 PM / 0 Comments

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

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What's New in Oracle VM 3?
By Joe Brockmeier / August 25, 2011 4:00 PM / 0 Comments

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

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Oracle Aims for Zero Downtime with Ksplice Acquisition
By Klint Finley / July 22, 2011 1:00 PM / 0 Comments

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

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Fatwire's Yogesh Gupta on Becoming Part of Oracle
By David Strom / June 23, 2011 11:09 AM / 0 Comments

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

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Oracle Gets More Social and Takes on Adobe with FatWire Acquisition
By Klint Finley / June 21, 2011 11:20 AM / 0 Comments

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,

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iPad for Business Round-Up: Adobe Connect, TripIt and More
By Klint Finley / May 7, 2011 11:00 AM / 0 Comments

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

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Enterprise Software Sales Rebounded in 2010
By Klint Finley / May 6, 2011 3:00 PM / 0 Comments

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

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A Victory for the Community? Oracle Spin Out OpenOffice, but Questions Remain
By Alex Williams / April 15, 2011 4:35 PM / 6 Comments

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

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IT Poll: Which NoSQL Company Will Be Acquired by a Major Player First?
By Klint Finley / April 12, 2011 10:32 AM / 2 Comments

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.

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Web 3.0, The Cloud, and Vendor Lock-In
By Klint Finley / April 8, 2011 2:00 PM / 2 Comments

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

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IT Poll: Do You Use a Proprietary Database?
By Klint Finley / March 29, 2011 9:48 AM / 0 Comments

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

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Java's Not Dying, It's Mutating
By Klint Finley / February 15, 2011 12:00 PM / 5 Comments

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

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IT Poll: Is the Java Dynasty Seeing the Beginning of the End?
By Klint Finley / January 24, 2011 5:00 PM / 11 Comments

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

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The Java Ecosystem [Infographic]
By Alex Williams / January 24, 2011 1:30 PM / 3 Comments

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.

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Why The Future of Java is with Large Customers, not Innovative, Young Developers
By Alex Williams / January 24, 2011 10:00 AM / 8 Comments

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

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This Week in Business Analytics: Oracle Takes on SAP with New Business Intelligence Application, and More
By Klint Finley / January 16, 2011 8:00 AM / 2 Comments

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,

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How 3 Salesforce.com Competitors Are Trying to Poach Customers at Dreamforce
By Klint Finley / December 7, 2010 10:20 AM / 2 Comments

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?

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Oracle Wins 10 Times More Than the Record Industry Ever Has for Copyright Infringement
By Alex Williams / November 23, 2010 5:00 PM / 7 Comments

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

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Only 27% of Information Workers Would Recommend Their Employer's Products or Services. Would Access to Social Media Tools Help Change That?
By Klint Finley / November 22, 2010 5:00 PM / 2 Comments

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

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Why Oracle Bought E-Commerce Company ATG
By Klint Finley / November 2, 2010 9:20 AM / 2 Comments

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

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