Features

• 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.

• Sun tussles with de-duplication startup

  By Stephen Lawson | 15 July, 2009 09:22

  Sun Microsystems is suing startup GreenBytes for allegedly claiming that Sun stole its data de-duplication technology.

• Sun's Rock doomed from start, analysts say

  By Agam Shah | 18 June, 2009 09:27

  Sun's development Rock processor was a troubled project that may never have stood a chance, analysts said following reports that the chip had been axed.

• Data center derby heats up

  By Beth Schultz | 16 June, 2009 00:17

  Network 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.

• Oracle will stay in the hardware business, Ellison says

  By Sumner Lemon | 08 May, 2009 11:01

  Oracle 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.

• King of the dynamic IDEs

  By James R. Borck | 27 February, 2009 08:48

  Komodo IDE 5 from ActiveState is the most comprehensive code editor and debugger available for enterprise teams that develop applications using a range of dynamic languages. Komodo's strong debugging skills are blended with broad-based coding support for Perl, PHP, Python, and Ruby, not to mention Tcl, Java, C, C++, Visual Basic, and many more. With powerful HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and XML support, Komodo is a great Web 2.0 companion as well.