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  The year of the Sun

• CIOs bemoan lock-in and the 'false flexibility' of the Cloud

  By James Niccolai | 20 June, 2013 00:33

  Despite the promise of portability from service providers, the reality of the Cloud for big customers is a similar type of lock-in as they experience with on-premise apps vendors such as Oracle and SAP, two CIOs said Tuesday.

• Java 7 Update 25 fixes 40 security issues, turns on certificate revocation checking

  By Lucian Constantin | 19 June, 2013 12:35

  Oracle addressed 40 security issues in Java and enabled online certificate revocation checking by default in its scheduled critical patch update for Java on Tuesday.

• Apple pours OS X Snow Leopard another Java fix

  By Gregg Keizer | 19 June, 2013 11:00

  Apple on Tuesday patched Java 6 for OS X Snow Leopard, Lion and Mountain Lion, fixing 34 flaws that Oracle addressed the same day for Windows.

• Experts support Google in Oracle's lawsuit over Java APIs

  By James Niccolai | 17 June, 2013 10:18

  Nearly three-dozen computer scientists have signed off on a court brief opposing Oracle's effort to copyright its Java APIs, a move they say would hold back the computer industry and deny affordable technology to end users.

• CEO paychecks: Winners and losers

  By Ann Bednarz | 14 June, 2013 17:04

  The U.S. tech industry has fared well amid the fiscal doom and gloom, and its economic fortitude is reflected in the jumbo pay packages of some tech CEOs.

• Oracle to ship 40 security fixes for Java SE

  By Chris Kanaracus | 14 June, 2013 14:57

  Oracle is set to release a patch set for Java SE that targets 40 security vulnerabilities.

• US FDA calls on medical device makers to focus on cybersecurity

  By Grant Gross | 13 June, 2013 18:38

  Medical device makers should take new steps to protect their products from malware and cyberattacks or face the possibility that U.S. Food and Drug Administration won't approve their devices for use, the FDA said.

• Oracle releases Java EE 7 with eye on HTML5 development

  By Chris Kanaracus | 12 June, 2013 13:44

  Oracle has announced the availability of Java Platform Enterprise Edition 7, a release that brings new capabilities for HTML5-based application development to the framework.

• Oracle's Mark Hurd talks Fusion Applications, customer satisfaction and SAP's HANA

  By Chris Kanaracus | 12 April, 2013 20:47

  As co-president of Oracle, Mark Hurd is tasked with selling an ever-increasing array of new software and hardware products, such as the Exadata database machine and Fusion Applications, while figuring out how to keep the company's vast installed base happy and fending off competition from the likes of SAP.

• NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson talks growth, strategy and life with Oracle

  By Chris Kanaracus | 09 January, 2013 20:59

  NetSuite is one of the SaaS (software as a service) market's pioneers, having sold its growing family of ERP (enterprise resource planning), e-commerce and other applications since 1998. The vendor's results have been beating Wall Street's predictions, and may yet again in a few weeks, when NetSuite is expected to announce its fourth-quarter and year-end results.

• 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.

• Oracle's Q4 results: What to watch for

  By Chris Kanaracus | 17 June, 2013 20:27

  Many eyes in the tech world will fall on Oracle later this week, when the vendor's fourth-quarter results are set for release. This is typically the biggest reporting period for Oracle each year in terms of revenue, but a number of questions loom beyond its top-line performance.

• Salesforce.com aims for next $1 billion business with ExactTarget buy

  By Chris Kanaracus | 04 June, 2013 15:58

  Salesforce.com's pending US$2.5 billion purchase of marketing software vendor ExactTarget will help it develop a new $1 billion annual revenue stream and set the company on a clear strategic course for the foreseeable future, according to Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff.

• Smacking SharePoint into shape

  By Todd R. Weiss | 29 May, 2013 11:23

  More than half of all SharePoint shops have had to add functionality to the core software, which came as a surprise to a number of them. Here's what they're doing.

• SAP's first quarter: The key questions

  By Chris Kanaracus | 18 April, 2013 14:57

  SAP will announce its first-quarter 2013 earnings on Friday, a report that will get heavy scrutiny from company watchers. Here's a look at some of the more important topics that should come up during SAP executives' conference calls with press and analysts on Friday.

• Oracle takes apparent step toward standardizing on a single chip design

  By James Niccolai | 08 April, 2013 10:08

  Oracle's unveiling of a batch of servers based on new Sparc processors marked what some analysts think is a step toward an expected standardizing of the vendor's two families of Unix servers onto a single chip architecture.

• Oracle's strategies to get real-world verdict at Collaborate user event

  By Chris Kanaracus | 04 April, 2013 20:55

  Oracle's sprawling annual OpenWorld conference doesn't kick off until September, but next week the Oracle user group-backed Collaborate event will be held in Denver.

• Marketo IPO may spark suitors, including Salesforce.com

  By Chris Kanaracus | 03 April, 2013 18:19

  Cloud-based marketing automation vendor Marketo's plans to raise up to $75 million in an initial public offering, which were revealed this week, could influence larger companies to acquire the company, including Salesforce.com and SAP.

• Oracle faces 'dilemma' with its Fusion Applications

  By Chris Kanaracus | 12 February, 2013 19:09

  Oracle spent years developing its next-generation Fusion Applications and finally put them into general availability nearly a year-and-a-half ago, but some new evidence suggests that it's been less than successful at enticing customers to move up.