Tag: Oracle
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Full speed ahead: Oracle to ship Java 8 in March, even with bugs
Company to focus on ‘showstopper’ bugs between now and then in JDK 8, and wait to fix lesser bugs later. By Paul Krill | InfoWorld Oracle plans to ship JDK (Java Development Kit) 8 on March 18, even if it means the release might have some minor bugs. In a posting to a Java mailing…
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Java gives Android development an edge
Evans Data survey also finds app dev is quicker for Android than for rival OSes, due to improved tooling and cross-platform development. By Paul Krill | InfoWorld Java familiarity is key to developers being able to build apps a bit quicker for Google’s Android mobile platform than for the rival Apple iOS or Microsoft’s Windows…
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Gartner MQ For Horizontal Portals: IBM, Microsoft, Oracle Lead + 8 Emerging Trends
in CMSBy David Roe. A quick look back at Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portals over the past two years compared with this year’s Magic Quadrant seems to point to a stagnant market. However, while IBM, Liferay ,Microsoft, Oracle and SAP still dominate the Leaders’ Quadrant, there are subtle shifts in emphasis across the entire Magic…
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Microsoft And Oracle Will Announce Major Cloud Computing Partnership Next Monday
Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer, its Azure chief Satya Nadella and Oracle’s president Mark Hurd are holding a joint press conference next week, just two days before Microsoft’s Build developer conference is scheduled to kick off in San Francisco. The press event follows Oracle’s earnings call that featured remarks by Oracle CEO Larry Ellison about a…
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Analysts say software industry may be leaving Oracle behind
“For a long time they’ve held firm on pricing for maintenance, which is their highest margin business, and they’ve really stuck it to their clients,” said Goldmacher. “Now that you have an ever-growing raft of alternatives, more and more traditional customers are availing themselves of those alternatives.” Shares in Oracle slumped nearly 10 percent on…