It can be eye-opening to step back and take the long view on our rapidly-changing technology industry. Will the products you’re deploying today still be around in 20 years? Few have that kind of ...

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 detailed on Wednesday upgrades to the Solaris Unix OS it inherited from Sun Microsystems, offering improvements in such areas as virtualization. The company announced Oracle Solaris 10 9/10, ...

Like the newly released RHEL 7, Oracle Linux 7 features XFS, Btrfs, Linux Containers (LXC), DTrace, Xen enhancements, and OpenStack cloud support. Borrowing another page from Red Hat's book, Oracle ...

SAN FRANCISCO--Within the next five years, half of Oracle's customers may be running Linux, company President Charles Phillips has predicted. The open-source operating system is a key piece in filling ...

I can see why folks are throwing brickbats at Oracle for their latest Linux move, which seemed to be long anticipated. So I hope the brickbats were long in the making and not the result of shock or ...

Red Hat Inc. claims that Oracle Corp.’s bid to clone Red Hat’s market-leading version of the Linux operating system will result in broken software, nonworking hardware and security holes for ...

Bangalore: Oracle had launched Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) in order to compete with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and to strengthen its position in the market. But even heavy discounts and ...

Demand for mainframe and high-performance Unix servers is falling, but a new wave of SPARC and IBM Power chips for the servers will be unwrapped at the Hot Chips conference in late August. IBM, Oracle ...

Demand for mainframe and high-performance Unix servers is falling, but a new wave of SPARC and IBM Power chips for the servers will be unwrapped at the Hot Chips conference in late August. IBM, Oracle ...