Sun’s chief open source officer, Simon Phipps, has left the company following its acquisition by Oracle, the executive announced in his blog Tuesday. “Today is my last day of employment at Sun (well, it became Oracle on March 1st in the UK but you know what I mean),” Phipps wrote. “I am a few months short of my 10th anniversary there (I joined at JavaOne in 2000) and my 5th anniversary as Chief Open Source Officer.”
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Sun’s open source chief leaves following Oracle merger
Oracle made significant increases this week in the cost of technical certification exams for Sun and Oracle technologies.
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Oracle hikes certification testing fees
SAP has seen its share of executive upheaval and customer discontent in recent months, but a newly inked agreement with global conglomerate 3M is giving it reason to celebrate. The project, which will see SAP ’s Business Suite 7 rolled out companywide, is going to be conducted in phases, said Rob Enslin, president of SAP’s North American division.
What does Oracle think about those companies that offer third-party maintenance and support services for Oracle’s software — for up to half off Oracle’s price? Look no further than the names of these two lawsuits: Oracle v. TomorrowNow and Oracle v.
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ERP support: How far will Oracle go to protect its golden egg?
Oracle has its heart set on dominating the social services software market, in which its rival SAP has historically had a strong hand. An Oracle webcast showcasing an upcoming social services application is scheduled for March 3 . In a sign of the new product’s strategic significance, Oracle President Charles Phillips will be presenting along with Anthony Lye, senior vice president of CRM (customer relationship management).
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Oracle making new push into social services software
Beehive, an Apache Software Foundation open source project providing a Java programming model, has been retired due to inactivity, the foundation said on Wednesday. Based on the former BEA Weblogic Workshop development tool runtime, Beehive was built on J2EE and the Struts Java Web framework; it used annotations to reduce coding. [ InfoWorld’s Paul Krill reported on Oracle’s BEA roadmap for BEA, which classified Beehive as being in maintenance mode .
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Apache Beehive project retired
Oracle announced Wednesday it plans to purchase Israeli startup Convergin, which makes software that lets telcos deliver services across multiple networks and platforms. Terms were not disclosed.
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Oracle buys Convergin for telecom tech
Oracle has officially put both legs on the cloud-computing bandwagon, recently launching a roughly 50-date global road show on the topic for developers and system administrators. The move stands in contrast to CEO Larry Ellison’s well-publicized mocking of cloud computing , which he has deemed a rebranding and conflation of existing technologies
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Oracle launches worldwide cloud computing tour
Oracle on Monday fattened up its already burgeoning middleware stack, announcing Monday that it has purchased SOA (service oriented architecture) management vendor AmberPoint.
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Oracle buys SOA management vendor AmberPoint
Problems once again wracked Oracle ’s new My Oracle Support portal this week, with some users reporting difficulties accessing the site.
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My Oracle Support site hit by problems again
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