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Java founder James Gosling’s campaign for a “free” Java has extended to offering a line of T-shirts and other merchandise. In a blog post on Friday, Gosling, known as the “father” of Java while at Sun Microsystems, unveiled the shirts along with similarly themed buttons, coffee mugs, and a refrigerator magnet. He specifically takes aim [...]

There is still a way for Oracle to calm down people concerned about the fate of the Java programming language under the vendor’s stewardship, according to James Gosling, known as the father of Java. “Lightning might strike and they might live up to their 2007 commitment to create an independent Java foundation,” Gosling said in [...]

Even before the first Oracle-driven JavaOne conference has seen the light of day, an alternative Java conference is being planned for those not thrilled with Oracle. Media company Software & Support Media (S&S) plans to offer a U.S.-based version of its JAX (Java Apache XML) conference, which the company has been conducting in Germany for [...]

Oracle appears set to deliver more information than ever before about its long-awaited Fusion Applications at the OpenWorld conference in September, with more than 30 sessions listed as of Tuesday. Fusion Applications are supposed to combine the best attributes of Oracle’s various application lines into a next-generation suite. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has said they [...]

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. [ [...]

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 [...]

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. [ Managing backup infrastructure right [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 to begin [...]