Red Hat plans to release its first Java application server at the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco on Monday, broadening its business beyond the Linux open source operating system, industry sources said.
Oracle is tailoring the next release of its business applications to specific industries and doubling the size of its application server sales force as it tries to wring more dollars out of the server software market.
Oracle and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed their closing trial briefs late Tuesday in the government's case to block Oracle's hostile takeover of PeopleSoft, paving the way for closing arguments next week.
Harry You, the chief financial officer (CFO) at IT services company Accenture, has resigned to become CFO of Oracle, the companies said Tuesday.
With the trial stage over in the U.S. government's effort to block Oracle Corp.'s hostile takeover of PeopleSoft Inc., lawyers for the two sides filed court papers late Thursday that bring the case nearer to its conclusion.
BEA Systems on Wednesday cast its vote in favor of Sun Microsystems making parts of its Java technology open source, ratcheting the debate up a notch.
Sun Microsystems is releasing the source code for a user interface technology that provides users with a 3D view of their PC desktop, part of an effort to drive greater use of Java on PCs and other client devices.
MediaLive International Inc. said on Wednesday that it is cancelling this year's Comdex trade show because of a lack of support from the industry's biggest IT vendors.
Oracle is acquiring software startup Collaxa in a move to strengthen its application server by adding technology that will make it easier for companies to automate business processes, sources familiar with the plan said.
The judge overseeing the U.S. government's case to block Oracle's proposed takeover of PeopleSoft has grown weary of the amount of material being filed under seal and is pushing both sides to make more information public.
Lawyers for Oracle and the US Department of Justice presented their opening arguments this week in the government's bid to block Oracle's PeopleSoft acquisition, with the DOJ coming under frequent questioning from the judge about its case.
Oracle Corp. and the U.S. Department of Justice are heading to court Monday to do battle over Oracle's hostile takeover bid for PeopleSoft Inc., a deal the government says would choke competition in the enterprise applications market and lead to higher prices for customers.
The judge overseeing the U.S. Department of Justice's lawsuit to block Oracle Corp.'s PeopleSoft Inc. acquisition was given a tutorial Friday in enterprise software.
Oracle has reduced its offer to acquire PeopleSoft to $US21 per share, or approximately $7.7 billion, in order to bring the offer in line with the reduced value of PeopleSoft's shares, Oracle said last week.
Microsoft has pushed back the release date for a major upgrade to its database and developer tools to the first half of 2005, a delay of as much as six months.