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Java compiler would enable high-quality code, efficient memory use
By Paul Krill | 10 February, 2012 22:13Momentum is building for the Graal project, an implementation of a dynamic compiler in Java to produce excellent code quality without compromising compile time and memory usage in the Java Virtual Machine.
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Oracle buying Taleo for $US1.9 billion in direct hit at SAP
By Chris Kanaracus | 10 February, 2012 00:28Oracle is buying cloud-based talent management and employee recruitment software vendor Taleo for roughly US$1.9 billion, the company announced Thursday. The move comes shortly after SAP's move to acquire SuccessFactors, a close competitor of Taleo, for US$3.4 billion in a deal that has yet to close.
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Oracle stakes claim in R with Advanced Analytics launch
By Chris Kanaracus | 09 February, 2012 00:03Oracle is hoping to carve out a prominent place in the world of R, the open-source statistical modeling language with roots in academia but an increasingly high profile in enterprise IT shops. It announced a new Advanced Analytics product on Wednesday that ties R to its database and family of software-hardware appliances.
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Flexing NoSQL: MongoDB in review
By Andrew Glover | 08 February, 2012 22:15The NoSQL movement has spawned a slew of alternative data stores, all of which attempt to fill voids left by traditional relational database implementations. But while it's easy to fit the various relational databases (MySQL, Oracle, DB2, and so on) under a single categorical umbrella, the NoSQL world is much more diverse, and the NoSQL label is too general. NoSQL data stores such as MongoDB and Cassandra are so vastly different from each other that apples-to-apples comparisons are practically impossible. Thus, within the world of NoSQL, there are subcategories such as key-value stores, graph databases, and document-oriented stores.
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Greenpeace scorecard documents greener enterprise offerings
By Cameron Scott | 08 February, 2012 16:01Technology companies are not just making their products less carbon-intensive; they are also increasingly designing products to improve energy efficiency in the industries that they serve, according to the latest in a series of Greenpeace ratings of the sector's energy practices.
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Oracle seeks new trial in IP theft suit against SAP
By Jaikumar Vijayan | 08 February, 2012 05:26Oracle's plan to drag its legal fight against rival SAP's defunct TomorrowNow subsidiary through a second trial is not surprising, analysts said Tuesday.
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Oracle asks for retrial against SAP in TomorrowNow case
By John Ribeiro | 07 February, 2012 16:26Oracle has chosen a new trial in its lawsuit against SAP for copyright infringement, rejecting the reduction of a jury verdict by about US$1 billion by a federal court in September last year.
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Java tops C in language popularity assessment -- but not by much
By Paul Krill | 07 February, 2012 07:54Java is barely hanging on to its ranking as the most popular programming language, edging out C in this month's Tiobe index of programming language popularity.
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IBM's Steve Mills talks Oracle, Watson's future
By Chris Kanaracus | 23 June, 2011 02:28IBM'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.
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Interview: EMC's Gelsinger shares storage federation vision
By Sumner Lemon | 05 April, 2010 16:17Pat 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.
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Interview: Architecting a broader
By Julia Talevski | 18 March, 2009 15:44Adopting 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.
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Top 10 Web hacking techniques of 2010 revealed
By Tim Greene | 25 January, 2011 03:08A 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.
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Wozniak: Voice recognition is computing's next frontier
By Paul Krill | 13 January, 2011 06:33Look 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.
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REMEMBER THIS? The rise and fall of Sun Microsystems
By InfoWorld staff | 28 January, 2010 11:32Sun was a tech juggernaut for nearly three decades. Our memorial slideshow gives this former titan its due.
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Java's future uncertain under Oracle grip
By Joab Jackson | 22 January, 2010 11:29Would 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.
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Reporter's Notebook: Oracle OpenWorld 2009
By Thomas Wailgum | 16 October, 2009 03:08Highlights 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.
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Oracle, Sun launch high-end OLTP server
By James Niccolai | 16 September, 2009 10:49Oracle 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.
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Data center derby heats up
By Beth Schultz | 16 June, 2009 00:17Network thoroughbred Cisco jumps into the blade server market. Server stallion HP adds security blades to its ProCurve switches. IBM teams up with Brocade. Oracle buys Sun. And everybody courts that prize filly VMware.
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Oracle will stay in the hardware business, Ellison says
By Sumner Lemon | 08 May, 2009 11:01Oracle plans to stay in the hardware business following its planned US$7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems, CEO Larry Ellison has said, adding more detail to earlier statements made by the company.
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