Europe’s biggest city council faces £100M bill in Oracle ERP project disaster Doubts over Birmingham’s decision to replace SAP in plan once hailed an exemplar win by Larry Ellison Databases25 May 2023 | 74
TikTok to let Oracle view source code, algorithm, and content moderation It's all in the name of national security as Trump-era collab continues in Project Texas Security23 May 2023 | 10
Red Hat releases RHEL 9.2 to customers, with buffet of rebuilds for the rest of us Oracle, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux and EuroLinux all put out same version OSes19 May 2023 | 5
VA, Oracle's Cerner agree on renegotiated health records contract Long, costly wars not the only thing US government good at getting stuck in Databases17 May 2023 | 3
Larry Ellison cleared of forcing Oracle to overpay for NetSuite Billionaire and his financial stake in the deal aren't to blame, says a Delaware judge Software15 May 2023 | 3
VA's Cerner EHR platform fails to deliver medications to veterans Messy system is forcing VA pharmacies to work overtime to deal with poor IT, committee told Databases11 May 2023 | 4
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