OpenSolaris may be having a hard time at Oracle, but months after Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Java and MySQL are still viewed positively by users. Dave Rosenberg has more than 15 years ...

When Sun Microsystems went the way of the dodo bird back in January through its acquisition by Oracle, many folks in IT thought Sun’s progenies Java and MySQL would see the same fate. The database and ...

The results of a survey, published this week by open-source business intelligence (B.I.) vendor Jaspersoft, seem to indicate that early concerns about the fate of Java and MySQL in the hands of Oracle ...

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Oracle has released another monster quarterly security update containing 136 fixes for flaws in a wide range of products including Oracle Database Server, E-Business Suite, Fusion Middleware, Oracle ...

No doubt you’ve heard about Sun’s massive layoffs last week, which accompanied a major reorganization of the company. Everything server-related — Solaris, the server hardware, the new storage ...

Is it just me or did anyone else ROFL when they learned about the pending Snoracle merger? On one hand, you have a company (Sun) that pioneered and embraced open source (UNIX, Java and MySQL). On the ...