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• Oracle NZ reports 42 per cent revenue increase

  Oracle New Zealand revenues for the year ended May 31, 2010, were $134.4 million, a 42 per cent increase on last year's figure of $94.5 million for the 2009 financial year.

• OpenSolaris board closes shop

  Seemingly abandoned by its new owner, the open-source version of the Solaris operating system, called OpenSolaris, has now lost its governing board as well.

• Oracle signals end of OpenSolaris

  Oracle appeared to confirm this week what many in the computer industry already suspected: The OpenSolaris project is dead.

• OpenSSO to continue under guidance of start-up

  A Norwegian startup is assuming responsibility for maintaining an open source web authentication technology originally developed by Sun Microsystems, and seemingly neglected by Oracle after its purchase of Sun in January.

• Appeal lodged against EU approval of Oracle-Sun merger

  Monty Widenius, a leading open-source software proponent, lodged an appeal on Friday against the European Union's antitrust authorities over their decision to green-light Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems at the beginning of this year.

• Oracle Q4 profit jumps 24 percent

  Oracle reported fourth-quarter earnings of US$0.46 per share on Thursday, a 24 percent jump over the same period last year. Revenue rose 39 percent to $9.5 billion.

• HDS changes storage course after Sun sale

  Hitachi Data Systems is gearing up to provide installation and maintenance services in New Zealand.

• Sun open source chief resigns

  Sun's chief open source officer, Simon Phipps, has left the company following its acquisition by Oracle. Phipps announced his departure on blog on Tuesday US time.

• Oracle and Sun to push private cloud solutions

  The Oracle and Sun Microsystems road map [[artnid: 333300|due to be announced this week by Larry Ellison]] will likely include moves to forge the pair into a solutions provider in the vein of IBM and HP, according to analyst firm Frost & Sullivan.

• Sun Microsystems NZ plummets to loss

  Sun Microsystems’ local business has posted an after tax loss of $295,620 for the year to June 2009, in stark contrast to its profit of $3.84 million in the previous reported year.

• MySQL creator launches campaign to 'save' database

  The creator of MySQL has launched a Web-based campaign to "save" the open-source database from the "clutches" of Oracle, which is attempting to purchase its current owner, Sun Microsystems.

• EU rebuffs Oracle's criticism of Sun merger investigation

  In an unusually blunt rebuff, the European Commission has dismissed as "facile and superficial" criticism of its decision to issue formal objections to Oracle's planned acquisition of Sun Microsystems.

• Servers, Solaris and SPARC key to Oracle's growth

  Oracle's tilt at Sun Microsystems was opportunistic, Larry Ellison admitted to financial analysts yesterday, but Sun is now a critical component new five year growth targets that aim to more than double the company's sales to well over $50 billion.

• Sun, Oracle chiefs say Sun technologies will live on

  Sun Microsystems chairman Scott McNealy and Oracle CEO Larry Ellison both took the stage at the Oracle OpenWorld 2009 conference on Sunday evening to offer reassurances that Sun technologies will not go away should Oracle complete its planned acquisition of Sun.
  From Java to the Solaris OS to the Sparc CPU platform and Sun storage technologies, Oracle will be good for all of them, the executives stressed at the San Francisco event.
  Combining Sun's research and development budget with Sun's presents "one of the great R&D opportunities of all time". McNealy said.

• Oracle launches Fusion Middleware 11g at major event

  Last week Oracle unveiled a major portion of Fusion Middleware 11g, the foundation for its next-generation Fusion Applications.