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Oracle is making further job cuts related to its acquisition of Sun Microsystems, primarily in Europe and Asia, the company said in a regulatory filing Friday.
Oracle said it will book up to $825 million in additional charges for the acquisition this calendar year, including $550 million to $650 million primarily for severance payments.
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Oracle’s upcoming OpenWorld conference is set to broadly feature its long-awaited Fusion Applications, according to newly released agenda information for the show, which is scheduled for Sept. 19-23 in San Francisco.
During his OpenWorld keynote last year, company CEO Larry Ellison pledged that Fusion Applications would finally become available this year, but since then, the company [...]

SAP co-founder Hasso Plattner is set to revisit the topic of in-memory databases during a keynote address at the vendor’s upcoming Sapphire conference on May 19.
The news was revealed this week in a video interview with Plattner, who interviewed himself with the help of some camera trickery and costumes.
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Fueled by growth in new software licenses, Oracle revenue for its fiscal third quarter, ended Feb. 28, increased 17 percent from the same period last year, hitting $6.4 billion, though earnings declined due in part to restructuring charges incurred by the company’s purchase of Sun Microsystems.
Oracle reported third-quarter earnings of $1.2 billion, a drop of [...]

Fueled by growth in new software licenses, Oracle revenue for its fiscal third quarter, ended Feb. 28, increased 17 percent from the same period last year, hitting $6.4 billion, though earnings declined due in part to restructuring charges incurred by the company’s purchase of Sun Microsystems.
Oracle reported third-quarter earnings of $1.2 billion, a drop of [...]

number of former Sun Microsystems employees who worked on Drizzle, an offshoot of the MySQL open-source database, have ended up at cloud infrastructure provider Rackspace, where they will continue their efforts, developer Jay Pipes wrote in a blog post Monday.
Pipes left a post as community relations manager for MySQL in October 2008 [...]

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. But it’s not as if [...]

Scalability has been the buzzword for data warehousing vendors over the past several years, with the standout questions being, how many petabytes of data can I store? And how many servers and nodes?
In 2010, however, the watchword will be speed, as vendors start introducing flash memory storage to get around the longtime bottleneck of reading [...]

Oracle’s media event yesterday may have lacked the gadget-y pizzazz of Apple’s iPad launch , but it had Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, who was his usual merry, brazen self and had attendees guffawing.
Oracle held the Webcast to outline its plans for Sun Microsoftsystems.
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Oracle’s plans for Java and the proposed Sun Cloud public computing platform became clearer Wednesday, with Oracle executives giving another big thumbs-up to Java but a thumbs-down to Sun Cloud.
Under Oracle’s new stewardship, Java will be expanded to more application types while the public process for amending Java will be made more participatory, an Oracle [...]