There's a nasty little war afoot over the future of the operating system. In one corner you have the operating system vendors. They're building in virtualization, for example. This increases the depth ...

When a microprocessor vulnerability rocked the tech industry last year, companies scrambled to patch nearly every server they had. In Oracle’s case, that meant patching the operating system on about 1 ...

Oracle, it’s safe to say, is a bit perturbed about the $9 billion judgment against Google it was not awarded earlier this year. Larry Ellison’s software empire, you may recall, is embroiled in an ...

Larry Ellison on Monday said Oracle was giving free access to its cloud and database platforms, and he unveiled a new "autonomous operating system." The new operating system is meant to challenge ...

Oracle on Monday announced Oracle Autonomous Linux, an autonomous operating system. Autonomous Linux provisions itself, scales itself, tunes itself and patches itself while running. "Autonomy is the ...

Oracle has announced the availability of Oracle Solaris 11, which the company says can meet the security, performance and scalability requirements of cloud-based ...

Enterprise software giant Oracle is acquiring Nimbula, private cloud infrastructure management technology provider. Nimbula solutions are designed to assist users in managing their cloud ...

Oracle is continuing to crack down on companies it claims are providing support services for its products in an illegal fashion. Last week, Oracle sued IT services providers Terix and Maintech, ...

Software giant's bid to steal Red Hat's business hurts Red Hat, but Oracle has a long way to go before proving its Linux chops. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

Oracle has revealed that its first critical patch update for 2018 includes fixes for the widespread Meltdown and Spectre CPU speculative-execution flaws. Oracle's January critical patch update ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

In a move that can only benefit Mac OS X in the corporate world, Oracle plans to develop client software to connect workstations running Apple’s next operating system to Oracle’s own database software ...