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• Oracle-HP trial will trace an ill-fated partnership

  By Stephen Lawson | 01 June, 2012 20:57

  After Oracle and Hewlett-Packard enjoyed a long and fruitful partnership in enterprise IT, it's hard to find anything that hasn't gone wrong with their relationship over the past two years.

• Wall Street Beat: June starts slow but hope for tech in 2012 remains

  By Marc Ferranti | 01 June, 2012 19:09

  June is off to a rocky in the markets for technology companies as shares slump in the wake of troubling economic reports, though cooler heads appear to have confidence in the sector for the long term.

• Experts torn on Oracle's chances of appeal in Android copyright ruling

  By Chris Kanaracus | 01 June, 2012 19:08

  Oracle has pledged to appeal a judge's ruling Thursday that Java APIs cited in its lawsuit against Google weren't subject to copyright protection, but legal scholars and attorneys not associated with the case expressed mixed opinions whether that would be successful.

• Livermore set to be first witness in HP-Oracle trial

  By Stephen Lawson | 01 June, 2012 02:04

  Ann Livermore, a member of Hewlett-Packard's board of directors and a longtime head of the company's enterprise business, will be the first witness called when a court in San Jose, California, hears HP's lawsuit against Oracle for ending future development on the Itanium platform.

• Judge clears Google of Java copyright infringement

  By James Niccolai and Chris Kanaracus | 31 May, 2012 21:25

  A U.S. judge has ruled that the Java application programming interfaces used in Android are not protected by copyright, marking a defeat for Oracle in its high-stakes lawsuit against Google.

• Ellison: Next version of Oracle database set for December or January release

  By Chris Kanaracus | 31 May, 2012 20:59

  The next version of Oracle's database will be released in either December or January, CEO Larry Ellison said during an onstage interview at the AllThingsD conference in London.

• Oracle ERP project woes force construction firm to delay financial filing

  By Chris Kanaracus | 31 May, 2012 18:33

  Problems with the rollout of an Oracle JD Edwards ERP (enterprise resource planning) system have forced a Pennsylvania construction company to delay the filing of its fiscal 2012 annual report with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

• Oracle prepares to enter PaaS wars

  By Chris Kanaracus | 29 May, 2012 20:59

  Oracle may lay out how it plans to become a player in the burgeoning PaaS (platform as a service) market next week during a webcast event featuring CEO Larry Ellison and co-president Mark Hurd.

• Mark Hurd: Oracle’s only objective is to help customers

  By Anh Nguyen | 02 May, 2012 17:17

  Oracle president Mark Hurd has pledged to "make it easier" for customers to do business with the company.

• IBM's Steve Mills talks Oracle, Watson's future

  By Chris Kanaracus | 23 June, 2011 02:28

  IBM's Steve Mills has long been known for his leadership of the company's software division, but last year he added hardware and systems to his responsibilities as well. That move put Mills in charge of 100,000 employees and products that generate US$40 billion in revenue for IBM, according to its website.

• Interview: EMC's Gelsinger shares storage federation vision

  By Sumner Lemon | 05 April, 2010 16:17

  Pat Gelsinger made headlines in September 2009 when he left Intel to join EMC as president and COO of information infrastructure products, a group that includes the company's information storage and information security businesses. Now, Gelsinger -- who was Intel's first chief technology officer and led both the desktop products group and the digital enterprise group during his career at the chip maker -- is making waves again.

• Interview: Architecting a broader

  By Julia Talevski | 18 March, 2009 15:44

  Adopting more service-orientated architecture (SOA) products are just some ways business software vendor, Infor, is trying to achieve its goals this year despite stiff competition from SAP and Oracle. Senior vice-present for global strategy, Rick Parker, met up with JULIA TALEVSKI to discuss what role the channel has to play in Infor’s plans, the significance of SOA and how the market is shaping up.

• Tech Watch: Who watches the datacentre?

  By Patrick Budmar | 28 May, 2012 10:58

  The proliferation of datacentres around the world has made the Cloud not only accessible, but also affordable in the process. However, the issue of data sovereignty, the location of where the data is stored, has been an inhibitor.

• The big promise of big data

  By Joab Jackson | 14 March, 2012 04:04

  For Twitter, making sense of its mountains of user data was big enough of a problem that it purchased another company just to help get the job done.

• Top 10 Web hacking techniques of 2010 revealed

  By Tim Greene | 25 January, 2011 03:08

  A Web hack that can endanger online banking transactions is ranked the No. 1 new Web hacking technique for 2010 in a top 10 list selected by a panel of experts and open voting.

• Wozniak: Voice recognition is computing's next frontier

  By Paul Krill | 13 January, 2011 06:33

  Look for more robust voice recognition to take hold in the realm of personal computing, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak said in a brief interview this week that also touched on topics ranging from tablet computing, Oracle's acquisition strategy, and enterprise memory technology.

• REMEMBER THIS? The rise and fall of Sun Microsystems

  By InfoWorld staff | 28 January, 2010 11:32

  Sun was a tech juggernaut for nearly three decades. Our memorial slideshow gives this former titan its due.

• Java's future uncertain under Oracle grip

  By Joab Jackson | 22 January, 2010 11:29

  Would the Java community thrive as well under Oracle's control as it did under Sun Microsystems'? Vendors of Java products seem split about the question.

• Reporter's Notebook: Oracle OpenWorld 2009

  By Thomas Wailgum | 16 October, 2009 03:08

  Highlights and lowlights from this year's show: Cloud talk eclipsed by real-life rain, too many #oow09 tweets, not enough specifics about Fusion or Java plans, and an action-packed visit by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

• Oracle, Sun launch high-end OLTP server

  By James Niccolai | 16 September, 2009 10:49

  Oracle has launched a high-end database and storage system that it co-developed with Sun Microsystems, the companies' first joint product since announcing their plans to merge almost five months ago.