Unisys and Oracle target Linux shifts
Unisys has announced an expansion of its relationship with Oracle to move mainframe and Unix deployments to Linux and SOA (service-oriented architecture).
Unisys has announced an expansion of its relationship with Oracle to move mainframe and Unix deployments to Linux and SOA (service-oriented architecture).
Oracle’s launch of new releases of its five application families was a surprisingly sober affair, designed to restate the company’s pledge last year to continue to enhance its PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Siebel and Oracle E-Business Suite products.
At first glance, Farecast.com’s claim that its website can predict with 75% accuracy whether a particular airfare is going to rise or fall in the next seven days doesn’t sound that impressive. Isn’t flipping a coin accurate 50% of the time?
Oracle is making further in-roads into the Linux space by providing management tools for the open-source operating system. This comes after its surprise announcement in October that it will provide full global support for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution.
A good deal of debate still surrounds the difference between grid computing and clustering. Both aim to closely couple the power of several computers to achieve a large task or continuous and reliable service (high availability). Grid computing is generally considered more flexible and harder to implement than clustering.
The city of Philadelphia has restarted a troubled water-billing system project after signing a contract for new software that will replace most of the Oracle applications it initially planned to use.
Australia and New Zealand are ahead of the international state of play when it comes to planning for grid computing, according to a survey commissioned by Oracle.
Sun Microsystems New Zealand country manager Peter Idoine has resigned to take up the position of managing director of Oracle New Zealand. He leaves Sun at the end of January and will start in his new role in mid-March.
The long-standing tension between software vendors and independent researchers who try to find security holes in products came into public view late last month, when Oracle criticised bug hunters after it came under fire for its security practices.
Oracle has unveiled a scheme to promote its Siebel CRM products to small and medium-sized enterprises.
A bug hunter who had promised to disclose one zero-day bug in Oracle databases every day for a whole week in December has abruptly canceled his plans to do so.
Dave Duffield has returned to the ERP fold after keeping a low profile following Oracle’s 18-month hostile takeover bid for PeopleSoft, which ended in December 2004 with Oracle successfully buying PeopleSoft.
It wasn’t the Oracle-branded Linux that many were expecting. In a way, it was something much worse.
Red Hat has come out fighting against Oracle’s plan to offer Red Hat support services for roughly half of what Red Hat itself charges.
Novell and Microsoft chief executives Ron Hovsepian and Steve Ballmer today announced a wide-ranging interoperability deal that will allow the companies' Linux and Windows platforms to work together.