Oracle

Academics have 'no confidence' in Edinburgh University's response to its Oracle disaster

Updated Institution yet to answer 'elementary' project management questions after upgrade left staff and suppliers unpaid

PaaS + IaaS03 May 2023 | 43

Mirai botnet loves exploiting your unpatched TP-Link routers, CISA warns

Oracle and Apache holes also on Uncle Sam's list of big bad abused bugs

Patches02 May 2023 | 1

EDB offers 'risk-free' migration to lure Oracle users to the PostgreSQL side

Long-suffering Big Red customers 'may finally be ready,' says analyst

Databases02 May 2023 | 8

Oracle's examplar win over SAP for Birmingham City Council is 3 years late

It also required £20 million in extra funds – and Larry wants to brag about this?

Databases26 Apr 2023 | 44

US Veterans Affairs Dept shoots down $10B Oracle Cerner dream

Despite Ellison's health world ambitions, Uncle Sam resets massive project over harm to patient health

Databases24 Apr 2023 | 1

Oracle offers AI to tell you if those lead times are hogwash

It'll also give staff career advice

AI + ML20 Apr 2023 | 3

Oracle reportedly making job cuts at health IT arm Cerner

OCI is much more efficient than the acquired Cerner DCs, Ellison told investors

Spotlight on Databases24 Mar 2023 | 6

Ellison's healthcare obsession carries risks for Oracle

Analysis But if he swings it, the company can secure long term growth

Spotlight on Databases17 Mar 2023 | 21

The Great Graph Debate: Revolutionary concept in databases or niche curiosity?

Register Debate Two experts go head-to-head – then you decide

Spotlight on Databases06 Mar 2023 | 37

Power behind throne to depart as SAP enters a new era

Board chairman Hasso Plattner lines up successor to take ERP giant into uncharted territory

Databases28 Feb 2023 | 6

Gartner: Oracle probes orgs for Java compliance after new licensing terms

Big Red 'has a history of changing offerings' without allowing renewals of legacy products

Software20 Feb 2023 | 37

Oracle NetSuite datacenter plunges offline for a day, customers warned of data loss

Updated Anything could happen in a half hour

Off-Prem15 Feb 2023 | 10

IBM cheapens Oracle by delivering promised power-up for some POWER servers

Plus – calm down now – all the fun of OS subscriptions!

Spotlight on Databases15 Feb 2023 | 3

Uber strikes deals with Google and Oracle to cut datacenter dependence

Ride-hailing biz 'modernizes infrastructure' by using someone else's computer

PaaS + IaaS14 Feb 2023 | 7

Oracle, Microsoft barely compete for a quarter of their US Federal contracts

Vendor lock-in: savings of up to $750m a year possible if Uncle Sam didn't predetermine the victor

Software01 Feb 2023 | 11

Best time to prepare to leave an Oracle ULA? The day after it starts, say licensing gurus

Big Red 'will always start with a large number and negotiate down'

Databases01 Feb 2023 | 10

Oracle cozies up to IBM, adds Red Hat Enterprise Linux

So much for being 'Unbreakable' say developers

Devops31 Jan 2023 | 6

Experts warn of steep increase in Java costs under changes to Oracle license regime

As per employee model replaces old subscription, user bills could soar

Devops27 Jan 2023 | 90

Oracle engineering exec quits after tryst with health division

Reports suggest Don Johnson left after 6 months in charge of strategic unit

Databases25 Jan 2023 | 4

City council cans ERP project, keeps details of replacement supplier secret

New system 'commercially sensitive' but set to go live in October

Government Tech Week23 Jan 2023 | 23

Six years later, HPE and Oracle quietly shut door on Solaris lawsuit

Bunfight over support for proprietary Unix operating system ends with a confidential whimper

Software19 Jan 2023 | 2

Brit civil service claims there's enough money for mammoth ERP refresh project

Business case and competition said to be helping to close the shortfall

Government Tech Week18 Jan 2023 | 21

Quickest way to save with Oracle? Get off Unlimited Licensing Agreements, says pundit

They're not the meal deal they might seem to be, claims audit expert

Databases16 Jan 2023 | 21

NASA overspent $15m on Oracle software because it was afraid an audit could cost more

Houston, we have a problem: Millions wasted on license penalties

Software13 Jan 2023 | 40

Larry Ellison mea culpa as traffic cop stops Big Red boss on own island

Maybe pursuit of health and wellness requires driving fast in an orange Corvette

Offbeat10 Jan 2023 | 49

French JV wins contract to upgrade NHS Oracle finance system

After four years of talks, competition goes to incumbent supplier

Databases15 Dec 2022 | 1

IBM to create 24-core Power chip so customers can exploit Oracle database license

Big Red doesn't charge more when users add cores, so Big Blue plans to triple the count. Because why not?

Systems15 Dec 2022 | 26

Oracle clouds never go down, says Oracle's Larry Ellison

That summer heatwave in Britain? Our servers were just resting

SaaS13 Dec 2022 | 23

Pentagon shares nine billion cloudy dollars between AWS, Google, Microsoft, Oracle

Begun, the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability has. Ended, the Sequel to JEDI has

PaaS + IaaS08 Dec 2022 | 7

University orders investigation into Oracle finance disaster

Staff forced to make their own purchases after suppliers walk away due to payment failures

PaaS + IaaS23 Nov 2022 | 47

Warren Buffett buys billions of dollars worth of TSMC stock

There's gold in them there chip mountains? World's sixth richest man seems to think so

Systems15 Nov 2022 | 6

University staff voice 'urgent, profound concern' as Oracle finance system delays payments

Edinburgh Uni says it interrupted its financial processes in summer to test new system

Databases14 Nov 2022 | 39

University of Edinburgh staff paid late due to Oracle ERP troubles

Project beginning in 2019 has left employees and suppliers waiting on payments

Databases03 Nov 2022 | 36

Aviatrix releases tool to help enterprises prevent cloud network costs spiraling

Just as providers prepare to crank up their fees

Networks03 Nov 2022 | 1

Google, Oracle’s Ampere VMs get Arm’s SystemReady seal of approval

So that means everything just works now, right?

PaaS + IaaS02 Nov 2022 |

Oracle and Huawei clouds the big movers on Gartner's conjured quadrilateral

AWS warned for burning customers, Azure for 'punitive' licensing, while Google's losses are a worry

Off-Prem01 Nov 2022 | 7

ServiceNow boss embarks on corporate trolling to get rise out of SAP

Workflow biz ignores digital naysayers, avoids wider malaise in Q3 software spending

SaaS27 Oct 2022 |

Meta met a programming language it likes better than Java

Goggles giant on how it gave its Android apps a Kotlin makeover

Software25 Oct 2022 | 16

SAP struggles to exit Russia after sale of support unit stalled

Datacenters, cloud services shut down but keep maintaining DBs for the nation's businesses

Databases25 Oct 2022 | 5

Larry Ellison fought internal battle to kill Oracle's first-generation cloud

But Gen 2 faces an uphill battle in market share and technology

PaaS + IaaS24 Oct 2022 | 11

Oracle's Larry Ellison shares fears of bankrupting Western civilization with healthcare

Comment But the solution may need more than a really big database

PaaS + IaaS21 Oct 2022 | 41

Oracle opens up internal dev tools so customers can build their own apps

Oracle CloudWorld Big Red rolls out DB document handling, white-label cloud package – but customers warned to check out terms of service first

PaaS + IaaS19 Oct 2022 | 7

US Veterans Affairs hits brakes on $10b Oracle Cerner health record system

Nothing like medical orders routed into /dev/null and other problems to hold up a roll out

Databases14 Oct 2022 | 10

Microsoft attempts to eat Oracle's database lunch with Azure migration service

Ignite Redmond hopes move will lure more to its PostgreSQL managed service

Databases12 Oct 2022 | 5

UK hospitals fall back on pen and paper after Oracle Cerner outage

Staff couldn't access patient records and paper stocks were running low

Databases12 Oct 2022 | 11

Oracle VirtualBox 7.0 is here – just watch out for the proprietary Extension Pack

Latest version of FOSS hypervisor boasts support for new 3D acceleration tech and encrypted virtual machines

Virtualization11 Oct 2022 | 37

Oracle's NetSuite tests automation, warehouse management waters

Analyst says challenges remain in attracting partners to roll out products

SaaS28 Sep 2022 | 1

Oracle pays $23 million to SEC to settle bribery charges

India, Turkey, UAE subsidiaries set up slush funds to bribe 'foreign officials' says watchdog

Databases27 Sep 2022 | 8

Oracle extends share options plans, no bumper payday for execs... yet

Not all investors happy that suits get more time to earn significant stock-option awards

Databases26 Sep 2022 | 4

Oracle verifies Java licensing tools from Flexera and Lime Software

While one vendor says they help prepare for audit, expert warns they don't defend compliance

Databases26 Sep 2022 | 4

Businesses can halve 'megavendor' software costs with third-party support

COVID-19, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, growing inflation, and the threat of recession driving adoption

Software23 Sep 2022 |

Bank of England seeks partner to support Oracle Cloud implementation

After venturing into HCM, UK's central bank embarks on finance and procurement journey with Big Red

Applications22 Sep 2022 | 6

Oracle Cloud at one point would let you access any other customer's data

chmod a+rw at hyperscale

PaaS + IaaS21 Sep 2022 | 5

Oracle brews Java 19. Mmmm, kinda tastes like RISC-V

Upstart CPU integration, incremental improvements – just the way cautious corporate customers like it

Software20 Sep 2022 | 1

Oracle floats its HeatWave system into Amazon's cloud

Avoiding data movement saves $$$ but rivals have own approaches to doing analytics, transactions on same data

PaaS + IaaS13 Sep 2022 | 1

UK's NHS goes to market for $2b HR and payroll system

Plans afoot to replace Oracle EBS/AIX system used by 1.8 million staff dating from 2008

PaaS + IaaS25 Aug 2022 | 24