Oracle Linux and open source news

Oracle, Red Hat spar over Linux

2008-09-25T00:00:00Z

It was nearly two years ago at the 2006 Oracle OpenWorld conference that Oracle CEO Larry Ellison unveiled a plan to have Oracle provide support to Red Hat's own Linux customers.

Ellison pitches high-speed data warehouse server

James Niccolai — 2008-09-25T00:00:00Z

Oracle saved the biggest news for last at its OpenWorld conference in San Francisco. CEO Larry Ellison took the stage Wednesday afternoon to announce two hardware products developed with Hewlett-Packard that are designed to provide very high performance for data warehousing applications.

Oracle to make new push for government business

2008-09-18T00:00:00Z

Oracle is planning to launch iGovernment, a product initiative aimed at the public sector, at its OpenWorld conference in San Francisco next week.

Red Hat to demo heavy Oracle processing

2008-09-11T00:00:00Z

Red Hat is set to demonstrate heavy Oracle applications running on a virtualized environment at next week's VMWorld. The company also aims to perform a live migration during the demo, claiming to complete the migration much quicker than can any of its competitors.

Continuent launches open-source database scale-out stack

2008-08-29T00:00:00Z

Open-source middleware maker Continuent has launched a database scale-out stack called Tungsten, which support open-source databases like MySQL as well as proprietary ones from the likes of Oracle.

Shift to multicore processors inevitable, but enterprises face challenges

Jon Brodkin — 2008-02-27T00:00:00Z

Buying multicore servers raises two new questions for enterprises: How do you avoid punitive software licensing, and which applications need multicore processors?

Oracle takes on VMware, others, with its own hypervisor

Robert Mullins — 2007-11-12T00:00:00Z

Oracle today introduced Oracle VM, a virtualization hypervisor unveiled at the Oracle OpenWorld event in San Francisco. The open source, Xen-based hypervisor is the latest entry into the virtualization software space, and challenges other Xen-based hypervisors from Novell and Red Hat. Oracle VM also is targeted at industry leader VMware.

Oracle fixes glitch in PHP Web applications

Robert Mullins — 2007-10-10T00:00:00Z

Oracle has released an improved database driver to the open source community that makes it easier for Web applications written in the open source PHP programming language to retrieve data from an Oracle database. The Oracle Call Interface (OCI8) fixes a problem in which Oracle databases were unable to handle large volumes of requests for data from Web users. The announcement, made at a conference hosted by PHP Web app developer Zend Technologies, is recognition of PHP as the tool used to write up to one-third of Internet applications today.

IDF : Intel project aims to boost power efficiency in Linux

Sumner Lemon — 2007-09-20T00:00:00Z

Multivendor identity systems can work together, demo shows

John Fontana — 2007-06-28T00:00:00Z

User-centric identity may focus on consumers, but corporate users are finding that CardSpace, OpenID and other technologies could solve federation issues and attack privacy, access, management and other concerns.