Following Oracle's decision to end open distribution of source codes for its Solaris enterprise operating system, the company now faces backlash from the open-source community which is likely to ...

Oracle's ill-advised patent infringement case against Google will backfire, and hurt its prospects in the growing open source business market. That, according to Ubuntu creator and Linux giant Mark ...

Sean McCown isn’t afraid of controversy. He assured me of that when I interviewed him last week in preparation for this column. So when the InfoWorld contributing editor referred to DBAs (database ...

Oracle’s quarter-century-long commitment to the Linux community has been consistent and clear. Oracle seeks to make Linux the most effective server operating system, accessible to everyone, ...

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The three fastest growing databases of 2014 were all open source, according to a new report from DB-Engines, a site that tracks popularity in the rapidly changing database marketplace. The lesson, ...

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RALEIGH — Red Hat and Oracle jointly announced Wednesday an expansion of their collaboration to bring Red Hat’s OpenShift platform into the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The partnership is actually ...