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 Monday April 16 is the start of what the judge has called the “World Series of IP cases,” an eight-week trial in which Oracle will seek to prove that APIs are copyrightable and that Google infringed 37 Java APIs when it spun up Android.
The trick for Oracle, the judge said, will be...Apr. 16, 2012 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,427 |
 Oracle and Google have been ordered back into settlement talks.
Magistrate Judge Paul Grewal, who tried to mediate a settlement last year over Oracle’s Java infringement beef with Google and Android, told the companies they have to sit down again before April 9, a week before the tri...Mar. 29, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,378 |
 CCC Information Services Inc. has selected an Oracle Fusion Middleware-based solution to help the company realize greater efficiency in its development environment and to deliver improved performance to its installed customer base of approximately 21,000 collision repair facilities, 35...Mar. 26, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,080 |
 Oracle, which suffered a dodgy Q2, called that rare earnings miss and soft software showing an “aberration” when it reported its Q3 numbers Tuesday.
The company came in with stronger-than-expected income, up 18% to $2.5 billion, or 49 cents a share – 62 cents in Wall Street’s languag...Mar. 23, 2012 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,526 |
 A deadlock is a situation where two or more threads are blocked while waiting to obtain locks that some of the other threads in the deadlock are holding. Deadlocks can occur when multiple threads need the same locks, at the same time, but obtain them in different order. For instance, i...Sep. 7, 2011 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,890 |
 Most articles about Garbage Collection ignore the fact that the Sun Hotspot JVM is not the only game in town. In fact whenever you have to work with either IBM WebSphere or Oracle WebLogic you will run on a different runtime. While the concept of Garbage Collection is the same, the imp...May. 25, 2011 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 9,083 |
 When we get engaged with prospects that are interested in our performance management solution we walk them through a Proof of Concept. We let them install dynaTrace on their own prior to the actual POC. During the POC we ask them to exercise typical use cases on their application that ...May. 5, 2011 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 6,243 |
 BEA co-founder Alfred Chuang, who was running the joint when Oracle swooped in and bought it three years ago for $8.5 billion, has raised a $12.6 million A round led by Andreessen Horowitz for a new start-up called Magnet Systems.
Magnet’s got a cloud-ified development platform calle...May. 2, 2011 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,609 |
 Oracle Wednesday put out GlassFish Server 3.1, delivering on the roadmap laid out at last year’s JavaOne and adding new high-availability features in the areas of load balancing, failover, state management and centralized administration. There’s supposed to be a 34% improvement in high...Mar. 6, 2011 02:00 PM EST Reads: 6,262 |
 Modern enterprise IT infrastructure must keep pace with dynamic needs. As business changes, it allows customers to react quickly to maintain a competitive edge in the marketplace, often by leveraging new technologies to improve the bottom-line performance. Oracle WebLogic Server11g pro...Dec. 28, 2010 11:00 AM EST Reads: 9,171 |
 There's been a flurry of discussion this week among Internet and Web standards heavy-hitters around WebSocket, the new communications protocol supported in Chrome 4 and Safari 5. What was the main issue? Is there some kind of fundamental security vulnerability with the WS protocol? Web...Dec. 12, 2010 02:30 AM EST Reads: 14,005 |
 Considering a switch from WebLogic to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform? The Red Hat Migration Planning Guide details key considerations for planning a move from WebLogic to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform as well as common implementation and training standards and best pract...Nov. 18, 2010 10:15 AM EST Reads: 5,222 |
 Software maintenance is a tedious and challenging job. As long as the software functions as expected, it looks great. Imagine the situation, your pager keeps buzzing in the midnight (Not a happy feeling, right?).
Any software system, no matter how well it has been built and quality te...Nov. 16, 2010 11:00 AM EST Reads: 21,403 |
 Cloud companies cast a nasty pall over Wall Street Wednesday when they all seemed to drop simultaneously.
Reuters said the retreat started when Equinix, the big hosting company, said it had to cut prices to keep long-term customers after it acquired Switch & Data earlier this year...Oct. 6, 2010 08:30 PM EDT Reads: 7,563 |
 Oracle WebLogic Server 11g, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, running Oracle Linux on a HP ProLiant DL980 G7 server, together with Oracle Database 11g, achieved a world record single-node result with the SPECjAppServer2004 industry standard benchmark(1).
This achievement adds ...Sep. 20, 2010 01:26 AM EDT Reads: 4,874 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that LogLogic, a provider of Log Management and Security Event Management solutions, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 7th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
LogLogic of...Aug. 11, 2010 03:30 AM EDT Reads: 5,492 |
 Microsoft’s Software-plus-Services strategy represents a view of the world where the growing feature-set of devices and the increasing ubiquity of the Web are combined to deliver more compelling solutions. Software-plus-Services represents an evolutionary step that is based on existing...Aug. 1, 2010 05:45 PM EDT Reads: 11,656 |
 What are the chances that Chuck Phillips, the president of Oracle, the ex-Morgan Stanley guy involved in the company’s many acquisitions, doesn’t know whether Oracle will “probably double what we’ve spent on acquisitions in the last five years,” which is what he reportedly told a Fortu...Aug. 1, 2010 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 4,515 |
 WebLogic Server Scripting Tool (WLST) provides powerful command-line capability for system administrators and developers to configure WebLogic server environments. However, its usage and adoption does not reach its full potential, seen at many working places, due to various reasons. Th...Jul. 8, 2010 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 6,494 |
 Last week, John Bottom (@basebot) from Base One Group in the UK took a unique approach to his presentation at the IDM conference. He designed an experiment to show 150 B2B marketers the impact that can be achieved with content marketing. He asked attendees to answer the following quest...May. 22, 2010 04:22 PM EDT Reads: 2,817 |
Steve Marx has a blog post and an example on how to send email in Windows Azure. Sending email directly from Windows Azure presents some challenges, because you don’t have a dedicated IP address, and it’s quite likely that spammers will use Windows Azure to send spam. Once that happens... May. 21, 2010 10:59 AM EDT Reads: 4,029 |
 Continuing its investment in MySQL, Oracle has announced the immediate availability of the latest release of MySQL Enterprise, a comprehensive offering of production support, monitoring tools, and MySQL database software.
A key component of this release is MySQL Enterprise Monitor 2.2...May. 17, 2010 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,528 |
 As a CTO or an IT admin thinking about AT&T Synaptic Storage, you may be looking for an access solution that delivers AT&T Synaptic Cloud Storage to your user’s desktops and your organization’s file servers. Thinking access? Try Gladinet …May. 11, 2010 11:55 AM EDT Reads: 4,944 |
 Once the news got out that it had welched on its 2005 patent pledge to the open source community and had threatened TurboHercules (TH) with patent infringement, IBM had to come up with some cover story or another to contain the fallout. So it switched places with many of its observers ...Apr. 9, 2010 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 9,772 |
 You may wonder whether it’s too early to make the call given the lack of interoperability standards, security concerns, and common definition of cloud computing. Well, the IPTV space shares many of the same similarities – emerging technology, emerging standards, emerging adoption, var...Mar. 5, 2010 01:00 AM EST Reads: 16,602 Replies: 1 |
 After things clicked for HP in the January quarter and it sniffed an “accelerating market,” it decided to raise its outlook for the year believing it can outperform the market. CEO Mark Hurd says 2010 ain’t gonna be 2009 redux, at least not for HP. He’s predicting growth of 6%-7% and a...Feb. 18, 2010 09:30 AM EST Reads: 3,708 |
 Demonstrating its commitment to the developer and open source communities, Oracle has announced the latest release of Oracle® Enterprise Pack for Eclipse 11g, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware.
Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse is a free set of certified plug-ins that enable de...Feb. 17, 2010 08:00 AM EST Reads: 3,830 |
 The applications in support of an enterprise exhibit a wide range of operational characteristics. That diversity is the key to business success, but it has consequences. Three different perspectives must be accommodated: 1. Enterprise Application Architect – Recognition that a single s...Feb. 4, 2010 07:15 PM EST Reads: 8,801 |
 You know the top one or two causes of bottlenecks for your applications, but do you know the next six or seven issues that have the potential to cause problems? Mastering application performance requires the right kind of IT strategy, combined with the right tools, that can shed light ...Feb. 3, 2010 05:45 AM EST Reads: 5,443 |
 As data center administrators and managers, you are entrusted with critical services that have a direct business impact. The threat of business service downtime due to enterprise application memory leaks is a constant IT concern. Often such problems only begin to show after long produc...Feb. 2, 2010 11:00 PM EST Reads: 4,216 |
 Not all of Oracle’s attentions this week were focused on Sun. Its lawyers Monday were busy suing Oracle-targeting discount maintenance house Rimini Street and its CEO Seth Ravin for a gaggle of reasons like copyright infringement, breach of contract, fraud, economic interference, unfai...Jan. 29, 2010 01:00 PM EST Reads: 3,099 |
 It’s apparently all over but the shouting at Oracle and Sun. The European Commission is reportedly supposed to wave Sun’s acquisition through on January 19. In the process it’ll have to explain how it came to change its mind after needlessly costing the company hundreds of millions of ...Jan. 18, 2010 12:15 PM EST Reads: 13,838 Replies: 4 |
 In enterprise IT no one just raises salary if there is a way to hire someone else for less money. It's just not in the corporate culture where people are treated as nameless resources. Have you ever wondered why policemen get lower salaries than Java developers even though people in th...Jan. 10, 2010 02:45 PM EST Reads: 9,599 |
 Successful enterprise SOA implementations build on a set of localized, project-level efforts with services that have clearly identified and accountable business and technology owners. Ownerships defines a SOA Domain. SOA domains may exist within corporate boundaries or may be provide...Jan. 9, 2010 06:45 PM EST Reads: 8,596 |
 VMware is reportedly branching off into the groupware business.
According to All Things Digital, the Dow Jones blog that majors in Yahoo’s doings, VMware is gonna take Zimbra, which has been on the block for at least a few months now, off of Yahoo’s hands, having been persuaded tha...Jan. 6, 2010 04:15 AM EST Reads: 7,824 |
 If you’ve followed the arc of the SOA revolution, you might have expected the current moment to be one of great fanfare and proclamations of success. SOA (was supposed to have) arrived! SOA (was supposed to be) an accepted standard for software development and enterprise architecture. ...Dec. 22, 2009 03:00 PM EST Reads: 5,555 |
 Raj Rajaratnam, the billionaire ringleader of the Galleon insider-trading mob, and Danielle Chiesi, the ex-beauty queen who allegedly charmed ex-IBM SVP Robert Moffat and ex-AMD CEO Hector Ruiz into telling her valuable company secrets, were indicted by a federal grand jury Tuesday on ...Dec. 21, 2009 09:00 PM EST Reads: 6,560 |
 Mezeo Software today announced that OpSource Cloud will offer the Mezeo Cloud Storage Platform, enabling OpSource Cloud users to enjoy online sign-up and immediate provisioning of cloud storage service, speeding enterprises’ cloud deployment and offering flexible, secure storage optio...Dec. 19, 2009 07:30 PM EST Reads: 6,047 |
 Everyone wants to lower their capital expenditures and increase operational efficiency - it's a sign of the times. The economy of the past 12 - 18 months has forced all organizations to do more with less and become more efficient. While everyone can identify with the request to do more...Dec. 19, 2009 03:00 PM EST Reads: 9,017 |
 “One of the reasons it’s so difficult to satisfactorily define cloud computing is that people have many different needs and expectations from a cloud platform. To start a conversation about cloud — especially one that seeks to evaluate the relative merits of competing cloud platforms —...Dec. 17, 2009 03:15 PM EST Reads: 7,666 |
