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  • EU Issues Formal Statement of Objections to Oracle's Acquisition of Sun

    The European Commission has issued a formal statement of objections over Oracle's planned acquisition of Sun Microsystems, which are limited to Oracle's acquisition of MySQL. Oracle however remains confident that the deal will eventually be approved.

  • Oracle Announced Plans for the Future of Sun’s Products, but Raised Concerns about NetBeans

    Oracle has released an FAQ that describes its plans for the future of popular Sun technologies like GlassFish, NetBeans, MySQL and more.  In some cases Oracle’s announcement is unclear and raises concerns about product viability.

  • EU Probe 'costing Sun $100m a month' according to Ellison

    The proposed $7.4bn takeover of Sun by Oracle is facing a full competition investigation by the European Commission costing Sun "$100m a month" Larry Ellison has claimed. The EU has until 19 January 2010 to announce its decision.

  • ADO.NET Entity Framework Providers for Oracle

    Microsoft’s vision for .NET is a wide one. In addition to support for all programming languages, MS wants to bring together all communication frameworks and data storage engines. While WCF is making headway for standardizing communication APIs, their universal data access model Entity Framework is lagging behind. Much is this is due to lack of direct vendor support from companies like Oracle.

  • Ehcache Joins Terracotta

    Terracotta, unique for providing JVM-level "pojo clustering", has bought the nearly ubiquitous Ehcache. The combined entity likely has the largest install footprint of all Java caching products. InfoQ spoke to Terractta CEO Amit Pandey and Ehcache founder Greg Luck.

  • Oracle Coherence 3.5 Brings Enhanced WebLogic Support and Tera-Scale Data Grids

    Oracle has released Coherence 3.5 with support for tera-scale data grids and a service guardian promoting enhanced cluster health and stability.

  • Sun Shareholders Approve Oracle Acquisition

    Sun Microsystems' shareholders voted on Thursday to approve the company's acquisition by Oracle, but not by a wide margin.

  • Microsoft OracleClient Deprecated

    Microsoft announced System.Data.OracleClient will be marked obsolete in .NET 4.0 and removed from future releases. OracleClient is the ADO.NET provider for Oracle developed by Microsoft and shipped as part of the .NET FCL. Its absence will be an impediment to future upgrades for the many small projects using this provider for Oracle data access.

  • More Clouds Gather on the Horizon

    Adobe has readied Acrobat.com, IBM has presented their cloud offering, while Oracle will use Sun Cloud to join their ranks. If there was a doubt about it, now it is obvious that cloud computing is the future of enterprise IT.

  • Open Database Alliance: New Direction for mySQL

    Monty Program Ab, a MySQL database engineering company, and Percona, a MySQL services and support firm, today announced the "The Open Database Alliance." This effort will fork the mySQL code base, using MariaDB as a starting point. MariaDB was created by Monty Widenius, co-founder of mySQL.

  • What will Oracle’s Planned Acquisition of Sun Mean for Java

    Whilst Sun Microsystems and Oracle are hailing Oracle’s purchase of Sun as a huge boost for Java many in the community are not so sure, wondering what kind of control Oracle will seek to exert over the platform.

  • Oracle to Buy Sun Microsystems

    Following the collapse of talks with IBM earlier this month Oracle has stepped in to acquire Sun Microsystems for $7.4bn or $9.50 a share in an all cash transaction. 

  • dynaTrace 3 Features Global Transaction Tracing, Cloud Support, and an Open Source Plug-in Model

    dynaTrace software recently announced the release of dynaTrace 3. dynaTrace software is an Application Performance Monitoring (APM) vendor that provides Java and .NET developers insight into performance problems in both application code as well as environmental configurations.

  • An ESB Vendors Evaluation by Forrester Research

    Forrester Research has just released a new 171-criteria evaluation of enterprise service bus (ESB) vendors, which finds that Progress Software, Oracle, Software AG, IBM, and TIBCO Software have the most-focused ESB and service-oriented-architecture- (SOA-) related strategies, the most-mature tooling, and the greatest flexibility in deployment and configuration.

  • Oracle BPM Roadmap Revealed

    During Oracle’s Open World conference last month, Oracle has revealed their BPM strategy and roadmap. The centerpiece of this strategy is building a unified BPM platform based on the strength of existing Oracle’s assets and BEA acquisition.

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