Oracle is bulking up its database portfolio with TimesTen, a small company that sells software for rapidly handling customer data and transactions. The acquisition, announced Thursday, is expected to ...

How does a technology powerhouse top its leadership in everything from databases to cloud? If you're Oracle, you move the needle by rearchitecting your flagship database, elevating hardware ...

Transaction processing against relational databases may not be the focus of the datacenter, as it was when IBM created the first relational database and Oracle was founded to compete against it in the ...

Oracle next month plans to provide details on an update to its application server software and development tools, tied to the company's emerging "grid" computing strategy. At its customer conference ...

Fresh off two wins on Sunday afternoon, which kept Oracle TEAM USA in the thick of the America’s Cup sailing race, Larry Ellison kicked off Oracle OpenWorld on Sunday evening with his traditional ...

Database replication is a valuable tool that allows companies availability and scalability with their data. To help support customers in this area, Dell is releasing version 8.6 of SharePlex, its ...

Oracle's Critical Patch Updates keep getting bigger. The database giant addressed a number of remotely exploitable flaws in Java, MySQL, and Oracle Database this quarter Bigger is not necessarily ...

Mike Ricciuti joined CNET in 1996. He is now CNET News' Boston-based executive editor and east coast bureau chief, serving as department editor for business technology and software covered by CNET ...

Oracle fixed on Tuesday 127 security issues in Java, its database and other products, patching some flaws that could let attackers take over systems. This is the first time Oracle has included Java in ...