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EDB Announces General Availability of a PostgreSQL Database in the Cloud: BigAnimal
Recently, EnterpriseDB (EBD), a significant contributor to PostgreSQL, announced the general availability (GA) of its BigAnimal offering. The offering is a fully-managed PostgreSQL database in the cloud with compatibility for Oracle database technology.
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Amazon Introduces RDS Custom for Legacy and Custom Oracle Databases
Amazon recently announced RDS Custom, a managed database service for legacy and custom applications that need access to the underlying operating system and database environment. RDS Custom for Oracle is the first available service.
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Oracle's JDK 17 - Free Again for Commercial Use
The Oracle JDK is available free of charge for production use again - under the new "Oracle No-Fee Terms and Conditions" (NFTC) license. This move reverses a 2018 decision to charge for Oracle JDK production use and does not affect Oracle's OpenJDK distribution. The NFTC applies to the recently released version 17 of Oracle JDK and future versions.
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Oracle Proposes Shorter Java LTS Cycle of Two Years
Oracle proposes to shorten the Java Java Long-Term Support (LTS) cadence to two years. The launch of Java 17 just finished the current three-year LTS cadence of Java 11. Acceptance of this proposal seems likely: Fellow OpenJDK distributors Microsoft, Amazon, and Azul are in favor, while Red Hat delivered a "nervous yes, but…"
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Oracle Introduces MySQL Autopilot with Machine-Learning Capabilities for MySQL Heatwave
Oracle released updates to its MySQL HeatWave service earlier this month. The new MySQL Autopilot feature uses machine learning to automate database provisioning and optimisation tasks, making recommendations and query optimisations based on each database’s usage patterns.
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Supreme Court Rules Google's Use of Java API Was Fair Use
The Supreme Court in the United States of America has ruled that Google's use of the Java API was fair use, and that the objections raised by Oracle are rejected. InfoQ looks back at the history and what this means for the future of APIs.
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GraalVM inside Oracle Database
Oracle has added support for GraalVM-based stored procedures that run inside the database. The capability supports JavaScript functions through the Multilingual Engine (MLE) focused on the APEX framework. This removes unnecessary data transfer over the network and can significantly improve performance.
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Oracle Introduces the MySQL Database Service on Its Cloud Infrastructure
In a recent blog post, Oracle introduced the MySQL Database Service in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The service is now available as a fully-managed service running on Oracle Generation 2 Cloud Infrastructure.
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Oracle Announces a Fully-Managed Cloud Region with Cloud@Customer
In a recent press release, Oracle announced a fully-managed dedicated cloud region providing a full stack of Oracle’s public cloud services, including Oracle Autonomous Database and Cloud applications, to customer data centers. The region brings all of Oracle’s second-generation cloud services starting from $500K USD per month.
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Oracle Open Sources Coherence In-Memory Data Grid
Oracle has released the core of their Coherence in-memory data grid (IMDG) product as free and open source software.
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2nd Generation JavaScript Frameworks & Libraries: beyond Angular, React, and Vue!
In recent years, large enterprises have been open sourcing their internal JavaScript technology stacks, with an emphasis on reliability, stability, and maintainability. Geertjan Wielenga explained at FOSDEM’20 the drivers behind that move and how that benefits developers.
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Java 15: the Story So Far
Java 14 has just been released, but attention is already turning to the next release, with some features already confirmed for the September 2020 release.
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Oracle Cloud Now Offers Data Science and Machine Learning Services
Oracle recently announced the availability of its Cloud Data Science Platform, a native service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), which the software designed to let teams of data scientists collaborate on the development, deployment and maintenance of machine learning models.
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Supreme Court to Have Final Say in Oracle v. Google Java API Battle
Following our story that Oracle was seeking $8.8 billion in damages from Google, the Supreme Court of the United States has decided to hear Google’s petition appealing that its use of open-source Java Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to build the Android platform violated Oracle’s copyrights.
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Google and VMware Establish Partnership, Enabling VMware Migrations to Google Cloud Platform
In a recent blog post, Google announced support for running VMware vSphere-based workloads in Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This capability is enabled through a partner solution by CloudSimple and leverages VMware’s software-defined data center (SDCC) technologies. Using this approach organizations can bridge their GCP cloud computing investments with their existing VMware investments.