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 ...

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 on Wednesday unveiled details about its technology plans in the wake of its closing the $4.7 billion acquisition of Sun. As a result of the deal, Oracle said it is investing heavily in a wide ...

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, ...

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

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 ...

Reporters typically don't pay much mind to vendor endorsers of any particular press release, but in this case Oracle lined up some interesting signatories: Executives from IBM (Bill Zeitler), Dell ...

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison fired a broadside at Red Hat on Wednesday. But now that some of the smoke has cleared, it appears some cannonballs went wide of the mark. Oracle pledged to support Red Hat ...