Oracle

Google, Oracle, Microsoft make their case for VMware migrations – HPE on the outer?

New instance types and discounts galore, and Broadcom all smiles as its preferred licensing finds more friends

VMware Explore22 Jul 2024 | 6

Europe's largest council could face £12M manual audit bill after Oracle project disaster

Thank goodness for pen and paper. Re-implemented system might not arrive until March 2026, four years after initial roll-out

Public Sector18 Jul 2024 | 39

Mega-city's Oracle system won't have effective cash management until 2025

Birmingham, Europe's largest local authority, plans to reimplement software years after it replaced SAP

Databases17 Jul 2024 | 25

Latest MySQL release is underwhelming, say some DB experts

Updated Oracle's priorities may lie elsewhere but it is unfair to say all innovation can go in community edition, reckons analyst

Databases16 Jul 2024 | 13

Palantir, Oracle cosy up to offer Karp firm's tech across Big Red's cloud

Foundry and AI plaform available in OCI

Databases11 Jul 2024 | 2

Brit council gives Oracle another £10M for professional services amid ERP fallout

Birmingham struggles to get current version of Fusion fit for purpose

Public Sector08 Jul 2024 | 56

Oracle releases experimental next-gen kernel build

UEK-next is bleeding edge – unlike most CentOS-alikes

OSes05 Jul 2024 | 16

What do CTOs hate most about GenAI? Tool changes that break stuff

With so many DB vendors to choose from, our vulture claws over the bewildering choices

Databases01 Jul 2024 | 4

Oracle fears US TikTok ban will dent its cloud profits

Dance! Dance for me!

PaaS + IaaS25 Jun 2024 | 5

Oracle Java license teams set to begin targeting Oracle users who don't think they use Oracle

IP address of downloads offers crumb trail to orgs who should be ready for Big Red, says licensing expert

Software20 Jun 2024 | 63

Let's take a look at Oracle's love and hate relationship with open source software

Opinion All businesses use FOSS now, but Big Red never been entirely comfortable with it

Software14 Jun 2024 | 11

Oracle Ads have had it: $2B operation shuts down after dwindling to $300M

Analysis In this slightly more private era, your data ain't as profitable as it once was

Personal Tech13 Jun 2024 | 25

Microsoft extends Azure into Oracle cloud to satisfy OpenAI

Big Red has also cuddled up to Google's cloud and made the transition to high-growth off-prem business

Off-Prem12 Jun 2024 | 3

Oracle Java police start knocking on Fortune 200's doors for first time

Expansion of compliance activity follows per-employee licensing change

Software10 Jun 2024 | 80

7-year-old Oracle WebLogic bug under active exploitation

Experts say Big Red will probably re-release patch in an upcoming cycle

Malware Month06 Jun 2024 | 6

GNU Compiler Collection 15 ushers Xeon Phi and Solaris 11.3 to silicon heaven

Remember Intel's 'Larrabee' many-core Pentium-based GPU? GCC doesn't

OSes23 May 2024 | 5

Brit council fumbles Oracle Fusion launch, leaving SAP to die another day

More than four years after procurement began, authority has no go-live date

Databases23 May 2024 | 46

Lords of May-hem: Seven signs it is Oracle's year end

Feature How to handle sales pressure and licensing 'negotiations' to make sure it plays to your advantage

Databases17 May 2024 | 35

Ellison's exemplar SAP-to-Oracle region rules out ditching Oracle

Largest local authority in Europe expects to go live with re-implementation

PaaS + IaaS14 May 2024 | 23

Oracle CEO says more tech can help offset tech's worst effects

Catz talks up company's feel-good efforts... Just don’t mention the margins

Databases13 May 2024 | 20

Oracle ULA audits are a license to bill

Customers can be pushed into renewing agreements for fear of the unknown, but there are cheaper options

Applications09 May 2024 | 13

Uni staff fall back on Excel to work around mis-coded transactions in Oracle system

Updated Two years after going live, the project that left employees unpaid still needs work

Databases08 May 2024 | 57

Oracle's database family gets trendy AI makeover

Say goodbye to 23c and hello to 23ai

Databases04 May 2024 | 11

Oracle Fusion rollout costs 15 times council's estimates in SAP rip-'n-replace

Updated No it's not Birmingham this time. West Sussex County Council ERP replacement price to hit £40M

Databases30 Apr 2024 | 85

City council audit trail is an audit fail after disastrous Oracle ERP rollout

Europe's largest local authority had no way of knowing if fraud took place

Public Sector25 Apr 2024 | 92

Oracle changes its tune with HQ move to Music City

Nashville 'ticked all the boxes' for Big Red's employees, says founder Ellison

PaaS + IaaS24 Apr 2024 | 17

Oracle scores big win with Fujitsu Japan for its Alloy partner cloud

But Big Red's $8 billion investment plan may not be all it seems

Channel19 Apr 2024 | 1

Mega city council's Oracle ERP system still not legally safe, compliant... 2 years after rollout

Fusion software misses another deadline, one external auditors for Birmingham City Council described as 'absolutely crucial'

Databases17 Apr 2024 | 47

Palantir and Oracle buddy up on cloud infrastructure

But do all Foundry workloads move to OCI? It's up to the customer, spy-tech firm says

Storage09 Apr 2024 | 5

Catch Java 22, available from Oracle for a limited time

Latest release of coffee-themed programming language aspires to simplicity with a dozen new features

Software19 Mar 2024 | 47

Oracle adds GenAI to Fusion with a whopping 50 use cases

But is there one that can sort out failing ERP projects? Well Larry, is there?

AI + ML14 Mar 2024 | 2

Oracle AI buzz means Larry Ellison's worth $15B more today

And here you were saying tech hadn't yet made a difference to someone special

Offbeat13 Mar 2024 | 12

Oracle investors hear the magic word 'Nvidia' and boom! Buy, buy, buy

Forget the piffle about real world results, let's look at the potential of wundertech

Databases12 Mar 2024 |

How to Netflix Oracle’s blockbuster audit model

Opinion Terms and conditions apply. Lawyers need not

Databases11 Mar 2024 | 32

'We had to educate Oracle about our contract,' CIO says after Big Red audit

Estimates put audits at $3B revenue for Ellison's company, so go at your own pace, experts recommend

Databases06 Mar 2024 | 58

Google advances with vector search in MySQL, leapfrogging Oracle in LLM support

Meanwhile, only 22% of orgs are looking at GenAI strategy for databases

Databases04 Mar 2024 | 2

Oracle Cerner system implementation risks future patient deaths, coroner warns

Doctors voiced concern over lack of Red-Amber-Green rating system, says report

Databases29 Feb 2024 | 12

City council megaproject to spend millions for manual work Oracle system was meant to do

Train-wreck public sector project was forecast to save 'bankrupt' council money

Public Sector28 Feb 2024 | 71

City council megaproject mulls ditching Oracle after budget balloons to £131M

As bankrupt local authority slashes services and hikes taxes, consultants enjoy £1k-a-day while system still can't offer auditable accounts

Databases22 Feb 2024 | 125

Oracle faces continued legal battle over alleged NetSuite software misrepresentations

Judge allows fraud case to continue after customer resubmits complaint

Databases21 Feb 2024 | 8

City of London ditches Oracle for SAP in search of ERP enlightenment

Updated Four years after first approaching market for new system, public body hopes to start working with SI

Databases19 Feb 2024 | 43

When red flags are just office decoration: Edinburgh Uni's Oracle IT disaster

Management either weren't told about risks or ignored them, report finds

Systems08 Feb 2024 | 91

Oracle partner gets multimillion top-up after Edinburgh Uni disaster

More changes required in wake of ERP go-live that left staff and suppliers waiting for payment

Public Sector06 Feb 2024 | 20

Oracle database deal in Azure comes with a health warning from licensing experts

Updated Five months after cloud love-in, critics worry about costs of deploying Oracle hardware and DBs in Microsoft’s cloud

Databases05 Feb 2024 | 9

Whether to move off Oracle is the $100M+ question for Europe's largest public body

After car-crash implementation, Birmingham City Council must weigh up options after current problems are fixed

Databases05 Feb 2024 | 68

Oracle is hiring two new teams to build its cloud faster and stronger

Infrastructure Delivery Engineering team to help build datacenters, data team to create new services

Off-Prem31 Jan 2024 | 5

Oracle quietly extends Solaris 11.4 support until 2037

Legacy OS and app holdouts get three more years of paid support, also on versions 10.0 and 11.3

OSes29 Jan 2024 | 67

Oracle continues GenAI push into enterprise data

Don't leave us for LLM systems in other clouds, says Big Red

Databases23 Jan 2024 |

Oracle share price slides as it misses revenue expectations

Still, Ellison talks up cloud margins, says 100 datacenters don't cost more 'to run' than 10

Databases12 Dec 2023 | 14

Oracle off the hook for fraud but judge allows breach of contract claim to continue

Building material supplier left without functional ERP can amend claim

Databases08 Nov 2023 | 13

Bing Chat so hungry for GPUs, Microsoft will rent them from Oracle

Frenemies in multi-year deal to offload AI inference to Big Red super-cluster

AI + ML07 Nov 2023 | 23

European Commission loves Oracle enough to sign six-year cloud deal

Larry promised Brussels 'less risk and cost' and they believed it

PaaS + IaaS02 Nov 2023 | 15

IBM outlines Asian growth ambitions with acquisition of Indonesian ERP consultancy

SAP and Oracle services provider Equine Global becomes part of Big Blue

Software01 Nov 2023 | 2

After six days and thousands of pwned users, Cisco poised to patch IOS XE flaw

Security in brief ALSO: SolarWinds using plaintext passwords; North Korea attacks TeamCity; Critical vulns, and more

Cybersecurity Month22 Oct 2023 | 3

Birmingham set to miss deadline to make Oracle disaster 'safe and compliant'

Bankrupt council is like 'ship adrift' – lacks financial info in midst of equal pay nightmare

Databases16 Oct 2023 | 32

In rare bout of generosity, Oracle extends free support for Database 19c

Big Red says it wants to give customers time to upgrade to 23c, which only exists in the cloud for now

Databases06 Oct 2023 | 5