VeriSign, a provider of Internet infrastructure for the networked world, continues to gain traction with customers in driving the adoption of mobile phone-based security for online access. The VeriSign Identity Protection (VIP) Authentication Service is a cloud-based authentication ser...

JackBe enterprise mashup software company, on Thursday announced that its award-winning Presto Enterprise Mashup Platform is now running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. ‘Presto Cloud (Community Edition)’ is immediately available at no cost to all members of JackBe’s Mashup Developer C...

The coming years will be both exciting and challenging as we collectively migrate to integrated enterprise cloud computing. Speaking of enterprises, I owe all of you an article on preparing your enterprise for the cloud. I continue to work on it, but it's not quite ready yet. This...

JNBridge, a provider of Java and .NET Framework-based interoperability tools, enabled developers at CambridgeSoft Corporation to easily integrate Java-based digital signature APIs into their .NET-based electronic lab notebook product. CambridgeSoft supplies discovery, collaboration, an...

As a market leader offering the most robust and flexible data management solutions, Objectivity, Inc., on Tuesday announced the newest release of its high performance platform and enabling technology, Objectivity/DB Release 10. This major release offers new and powerful features for th...

Oracle co-president Charles Phillips was supposed to become CEO of CA - for all its muddied skirts still one of the world's largest software companies - and then those "soul mates forever" billboards popped up in New York, Atlanta and San Francisco, exposing his near decade-long bi-coa...

No one can properly understand anything related to enterprise-level Cloud Computing without having first gained a reasonable understanding of the very basics. SYS-CON's pioneering Cloud Computing Bootcamp is designed with that in mind. It is a one-day, fully immersive deep-dive into th...

Want an easy way to build installers for Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, UNIX, IBM i, Mac OS X, and more? Try InstallAnywhere! From the makers of InstallShield, InstallAnywhere is the most popular installation tool for Java developers. Create professional, bulletproof installers for any pl...

To help organizations more efficiently and effectively manage the SOA lifecycle, Oracle today announced Oracle SOA Governance 11g consisting of Oracle Enterprise Repository, Oracle Service Registry, SOA Management with Oracle Enterprise Manager, and Oracle Web Services Manager. Oracle ...

Qualcomm and Oracle on Monday announced the availability of Oracle's Sun Java Wireless Client for Qualcomm's Brew Mobile Platform (Brew MP). With this release, Sun Java Wireless Client, Oracle's Java implementation for mobile handsets, is now pre-integrated with Brew MP. Handset manufa...

Aircel Limited (Aircel), a leading communications company in India, has teamed with Oracle to deploy Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper and Oracle Fusion Middleware to provide a highly scalable and personalized content delivery platform for new revenue generation. With more than...

Oracle is buying SOA management and governance ISV AmberPoint on undisclosed terms. AmberPoint, Oracle’s first acquisition since the great Sun takeover a couple of weeks ago, is ironically run by ex-Sun folk, who got to Sun via its Forte Software acquisition. The deal should close this...

Terracotta and Eucalyptus Systems have together come up with an integrated open source solution for private cloud that they say will maximize data scalability and application performance. The companies claim that their partnership is aimed at helping enterprises get a better handle on ...

Oracle has announced that JavaFX and Java platforms are being used as the Official Rich Client Technology by the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC). Sport fans around the globe can now explore the historical Winter Games medal result...

Every industry has head to head comparisons between popular products and they make great headlines but is the question really being explored? I say no. In fact, I think these comparisons are meant to throw meat to one side or the other and to stir the pot of controversy for one purpose...

KonaKart (e-commerce) and dotCMS (web content management) have announced plans to release java based CMS-driven e-commerce plug-ins and tool sets they are developing together. This Java-based, Enterprise-quality solution combines best-of-breed e-commerce and web content management.

Oracle, sensibly enough from Oracle’s point-of-view, has turned off the tap of development resources on Sun’s Project Wonderland, the 100% Java open source toolkit for creating collaborative 3D virtual worlds. However, a core group of diehard Wonderlanders means to keep the project goi...

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 ...

Did you know that PHP runs on Windows?? Run Drupal, WordPress, SugarCRM, or other PHP-based apps on Windows today with the free Microsoft Web Platform Installer. Microsoft WebsiteSpark is a specially designed program for PHP Web developers and designers to help you explore running on W...

IBM says it carved a couple of hundred notches on its gun in the fourth quarter after persuading both Sun and HP users to defect. It says all told it’s gotten 2,200 companies to move off of HP and Sun server and storage gear since beginning its Migration Factory program four years ago....

Oracle finally closed on its delayed acquisition of Sun Tuesday, leaving local entities to shift for themselves according to local laws and sidestepping MySQL creator Monty Widenius’ hopes of Russian and Chinese regulators stalling the merger. Widenius will now presumably revert to his...

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison got out ahead of his own announcement Wednesday of his plans for Sun and told both the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times that he intends to hire more people at Sun than he fires. He also struck a go-it-alone pose, seeming to burn his bridges with t...

Oracle said this morning that it had finally completed its acquisition of Sun, leaving local entities to shift for them according to local laws and sidestepping MySQL creator Monty Widenius’ hopes that Russian and Chinese regulators could stall the merger. Widenius will now presumably ...

Netbiscuits, a B2B web software platform for the creation, operation and monetization of mobile websites, and Media Prima Berhad, an integrated media investment group in Malaysia, have announced the joint realization of two new mobile web portals for TV3, Malaysia's leading free-to-air...

Sun chairman Scott McNealy sent out his farewell to the troops Tuesday, the day before Oracle is supposed to explain what it's going to do with Sun and maybe indicate how many of Sun folks it's going to fire. Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz told Sun employees last week that "Upon change i...

There may be little left for Apple to announce about its purported tablet or iSlate come January 27, a date change since January 26 was noised about. The rumor mill is slowly teasing out all its secrets. The great unveiling, according to the Financial Times, is still supposed to be...

The real-time embedded database folks at McObject have slapped a Java Native Interface (JNI) interface on their eXtremeDB widgetry and claim it’s the fastest possible database solution in Java-dom. The move is supposed to underscore their attempt to broaden the product’s appeal by push...

VMware is out with both Java and Python open source SDKs for its vCloud API meant to appeal to open source developers and ISVs. VMware said key open source client libraries and tools such as Dasein, jclouds and libcloud are now available for the vCloud API. Cloudera, which uses libclou...

Thursday, January 21, 2010 – The European Commission this morning waved Oracle’s $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems through without any strings attached. It’s been blocking the deal since September because Sun owns the popular open source database MySQL, one of the legs of th...

Oracle Corporation on Thursday announced that it had received regulatory approval from the European Commission for its acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Inc. Oracle expects unconditional approval from China and Russia and intends to close the transaction shortly. Oracle will host an all...

Everybody and his brother expect the European Commission to rubber stamp Oracle’s acquisition of Sun any minute now but when it didn’t happen Tuesday like it was reportedly supposed to we asked why not and were told – you’re gonna love this – that it was because antitrust czarina Neeli...

VMware on Wednesday announced availability of both Java and Python open source software development kits (SDKs) for the VMware vCloud API, making it easier for developers and independent software vendors (ISVs) to jumpstart their projects by flexibly leveraging private and public cloud...

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has announced the graduation of Apache Pivot as a Top-Level Project (TLP), signifying that the Project's community and products have been well-governed under the ASF's meritocratic process and principles. In addition, the Project announced the relea...

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 ...

Just as Oracle is reportedly about to draw a “Get Out of EC Jail Free” card next week, Russia’s regulators have waded into the situation and are threatening to hold up its acquisition of Sun Microsystems. Russia’s Federal Anti-Monopoly Service (FAS) Wednesday decided to kick off an inv...

Adoption of open-source business intelligence software is doubling every year because the products are viewed as "good enough" for routine applications, according to a recent report by Gartner Inc. analyst Andreas Bitterer. Commercial BI software vendors still have superior BI technolo...

The next hurdle that Oracle’s unconditional acquisition of Sun and MySQL faces is clearing the formal meeting of the European Commission’s so-called advisory committee, the 27 national regulators in the European Union, which is reportedly set for Monday afternoon January 11 in Brussels...

View the live panel discussion taped on December 8, 2009 at SYS-CON.TV's 4th-floor studio overlooking Times Square in New York City a very special "Power Panel" in which Cloud Computing Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan and three top industry guests from EMC, Intel and Unisys will be...

Bucking an apparent deal between Oracle and the European Commission to approve Oracle’s acquisition of Sun and its MySQL database, MySQL creator Monty Widenius kicked off a worldwide petition late Monday aimed at “saving MySQL from Oracle.” He vowed to keep going until the “the ver...

Oracle expects the European Commission to wave its acquisition of Sun through next month MySQL and all without any annoying conditions. Oracle president Safra Catz, who’s been wrestling with the EC, said so when the company posted its fiscal second-quarter results Thursday, another rea...