Oracle adds GenAI to Fusion with a whopping 50 use cases But is there one that can sort out failing ERP projects? Well Larry, is there? AI + ML14 Mar 2024 | 2
Oracle AI buzz means Larry Ellison's worth $15B more today And here you were saying tech hadn't yet made a difference to someone special Offbeat13 Mar 2024 | 12
Oracle investors hear the magic word 'Nvidia' and boom! Buy, buy, buy Forget the piffle about real world results, let's look at the potential of wundertech Databases12 Mar 2024 |
How to Netflix Oracle’s blockbuster audit model Opinion Terms and conditions apply. Lawyers need not Databases11 Mar 2024 | 31
'We had to educate Oracle about our contract,' CIO says after Big Red audit Estimates put audits at $3B revenue for Ellison's company, so go at your own pace, experts recommend Databases06 Mar 2024 | 58
Google advances with vector search in MySQL, leapfrogging Oracle in LLM support Meanwhile, only 22% of orgs are looking at GenAI strategy for databases Databases04 Mar 2024 | 2
Oracle Cerner system implementation risks future patient deaths, coroner warns Doctors voiced concern over lack of Red-Amber-Green rating system, says report Databases29 Feb 2024 | 12
City council megaproject to spend millions for manual work Oracle system was meant to do Train-wreck public sector project was forecast to save 'bankrupt' council money Public Sector28 Feb 2024 | 71
City council megaproject mulls ditching Oracle after budget balloons to £131M As bankrupt local authority slashes services and hikes taxes, consultants enjoy £1k-a-day while system still can't offer auditable accounts Databases22 Feb 2024 | 125
Oracle faces continued legal battle over alleged NetSuite software misrepresentations Judge allows fraud case to continue after customer resubmits complaint Databases21 Feb 2024 | 8
City of London ditches Oracle for SAP in search of ERP enlightenment Updated Four years after first approaching market for new system, public body hopes to start working with SI Databases19 Feb 2024 | 43
When red flags are just office decoration: Edinburgh Uni's Oracle IT disaster Management either weren't told about risks or ignored them, report finds Systems08 Feb 2024 | 91
Oracle partner gets multimillion top-up after Edinburgh Uni disaster More changes required in wake of ERP go-live that left staff and suppliers waiting for payment Public Sector06 Feb 2024 | 20
Oracle database deal in Azure comes with a health warning from licensing experts Updated Five months after cloud love-in, critics worry about costs of deploying Oracle hardware and DBs in Microsoft’s cloud Databases05 Feb 2024 | 9
Whether to move off Oracle is the $100M+ question for Europe's largest public body After car-crash implementation, Birmingham City Council must weigh up options after current problems are fixed Databases05 Feb 2024 | 68
Oracle is hiring two new teams to build its cloud faster and stronger Infrastructure Delivery Engineering team to help build datacenters, data team to create new services Off-Prem31 Jan 2024 | 5
Oracle quietly extends Solaris 11.4 support until 2037 Legacy OS and app holdouts get three more years of paid support, also on versions 10.0 and 11.3 OSes29 Jan 2024 | 67
Oracle continues GenAI push into enterprise data Don't leave us for LLM systems in other clouds, says Big Red Databases23 Jan 2024 |
Oracle share price slides as it misses revenue expectations Still, Ellison talks up cloud margins, says 100 datacenters don't cost more 'to run' than 10 Databases12 Dec 2023 | 14
Oracle off the hook for fraud but judge allows breach of contract claim to continue Building material supplier left without functional ERP can amend claim Databases08 Nov 2023 | 13
Bing Chat so hungry for GPUs, Microsoft will rent them from Oracle Frenemies in multi-year deal to offload AI inference to Big Red super-cluster AI + ML07 Nov 2023 | 23
European Commission loves Oracle enough to sign six-year cloud deal Larry promised Brussels 'less risk and cost' and they believed it PaaS + IaaS02 Nov 2023 | 15
IBM outlines Asian growth ambitions with acquisition of Indonesian ERP consultancy SAP and Oracle services provider Equine Global becomes part of Big Blue Software01 Nov 2023 | 2
After six days and thousands of pwned users, Cisco poised to patch IOS XE flaw Security in brief ALSO: SolarWinds using plaintext passwords; North Korea attacks TeamCity; Critical vulns, and more Cybersecurity Month22 Oct 2023 | 3
Birmingham set to miss deadline to make Oracle disaster 'safe and compliant' Bankrupt council is like 'ship adrift' – lacks financial info in midst of equal pay nightmare Databases16 Oct 2023 | 32
In rare bout of generosity, Oracle extends free support for Database 19c Big Red says it wants to give customers time to upgrade to 23c, which only exists in the cloud for now Databases06 Oct 2023 | 5
City council Oracle megaproject got a code red – and they went live anyway Poor security and segregation of duties also worry auditors Databases04 Oct 2023 | 60
Techies at Europe's biggest council have 8 weeks to pull finance reports from Oracle system Auditors issue new deadline following ill-fated migration Public Sector02 Oct 2023 | 72
Oracle's $130M-plus payday still looms on horizon for Larry and Safra And shareholders – presumably not Ellison who still owns 42% – are still not happy about it Databases26 Sep 2023 | 11
No customer left behind, SAP's Klein tells users angered by cloud-only decision Data quality, system complexity and SAP’s future rely on cloud adoption, CEO relays to German-speaking user group Databases25 Sep 2023 | 15
Oracle early leader in pointing vectors at business data, say analysts Big Red’s 'big announcement' strives to bring LLM technique to the business data arena CxO25 Sep 2023 |
Oracle at Europe's largest council didn't foresee bankruptcy Auditors unable to sign off accounts partly due to lack of IT controls amid challenging ERP deployment Databases18 Sep 2023 | 60
Oracle cloud hardware to reside in Azure datacenters – and Microsoft's good with that Larry Ellison and Satya Nadella find a common enemy: latency that alows data moving from DBs to AIs Off-Prem15 Sep 2023 | 7
Oracle disappoints market with revenue miss as Ellison hints at Azure database move Don't expect 'armies of programmers' to rewrite Cerner, says Larry, talking up low-code app dev platform APEX Databases12 Sep 2023 | 13
Local governments aren't businesses – so why are they force-fed business software? Opinion Oracle's repeated public sector failures prove a different approach is needed Databases11 Sep 2023 | 101
Largest local government body in Europe goes under amid Oracle disaster Authority effectively bankrupt as ERP car crash adds to equal pay liability Databases05 Sep 2023 | 238
Oracle Cloud, Netsuite, and Azure go down, hard, Down Under Updated Storm that passed through Sydney saw clouds sleep early and struggle to wake up PaaS + IaaS30 Aug 2023 | 12
Google wants to takes a byte out of Oracle workloads with PostgreSQL migration service Third-party and bespoke apps most likely candidates for the switch Databases30 Aug 2023 | 15
Oracle, SUSE and others caught up in RHEL drama hit back with OpenELA 'No subscriptions. No passwords. No barriers. Freeloaders welcome' OSes14 Aug 2023 | 50
Oracle shrinks its on-prem cloud into a single rack Big Red rigs start at 552 fourth-gen EPYC cores and 150TB storage, can scale to 6,624 cores and 3.4PB On-Prem11 Aug 2023 | 1
Larry Ellison a major contributor to Blair Institute vaccine database plan A relationship forged in UK government IT continues to blossom Databases10 Aug 2023 | 37
Oracle copyright battle: Rimini Street ordered to correct 'false' statements Both support biz and vendor claim victories in latest chapter in 13-year legal saga Databases28 Jul 2023 |
Oracle's revised Java licensing terms 2-5x more expensive for most orgs One in five users can expect an audit in the next three years Sysadmin Month24 Jul 2023 | 81
MySQL Heatwave dives into object storage data lakes Oracle joins the analytics anywhere bandwagon, promises future access to AWS S3 SaaS20 Jul 2023 | 2
Oracle pours fuel all over Red Hat source code drama Big Blue is just a gold digger, says avid auditor of software licenses Software10 Jul 2023 | 83
Let's have a chat about Java licensing, says unsolicited Oracle email Exclusive Don't tell Big Red too much, experts advise Sysadmin Month05 Jul 2023 | 73
Europe's largest city council runs parallel systems to cover Oracle rollout mess Decision to adapt software now subject of an independent management investigation Databases29 Jun 2023 | 48
Oracle certifies its database for Arm architecture on-prem and in cloud Only for Ampere – but with a licencing twist that means Intel and AMD can't relax Databases29 Jun 2023 | 5
Guess who's quietly bankrolling a legal fight against Montana's TikTok ban. Why yes, it's TikTok Psst, some American user data still stored in China, too Personal Tech28 Jun 2023 | 11
Rejecting Intel, Oracle pumps up Exadata beef cake with AMD protein Muscular system gets first update in two years with Epyc injection Systems23 Jun 2023 | 1
Suit alleges Oracle oversold and under-delivered on NetSuite software Binding service terms hidden in contractual documents, plaintiff claims SaaS21 Jun 2023 | 4
Oracle Cerner bleeds jobs as Veterans Affairs project stalls Health acquisition freezes recruitment after $10 billion contract put on hold Databases16 Jun 2023 | 13
Tech vendors have been hiking prices by up to 24% amid inflation Customers also warned to look out for audits following M&As SaaS16 Jun 2023 | 14
Kinder, gentler Oracle says it's changed, and now wants you to succeed Only took 'em 46 years … Software13 Jun 2023 | 47
Europe’s biggest city council faces £100M bill in Oracle ERP project disaster Doubts over Birmingham’s decision to replace SAP in plan once hailed an exemplar win by Larry Ellison Databases25 May 2023 | 74
TikTok to let Oracle view source code, algorithm, and content moderation It's all in the name of national security as Trump-era collab continues in Project Texas Security23 May 2023 | 11
Red Hat releases RHEL 9.2 to customers, with buffet of rebuilds for the rest of us Oracle, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux and EuroLinux all put out same version OSes19 May 2023 | 5
VA, Oracle's Cerner agree on renegotiated health records contract Long, costly wars not the only thing US government good at getting stuck in Databases17 May 2023 | 4
Larry Ellison cleared of forcing Oracle to overpay for NetSuite Billionaire and his financial stake in the deal aren't to blame, says a Delaware judge Software15 May 2023 | 3
VA's Cerner EHR platform fails to deliver medications to veterans Messy system is forcing VA pharmacies to work overtime to deal with poor IT, committee told Databases11 May 2023 | 4
Academics have 'no confidence' in Edinburgh University's response to its Oracle disaster Updated Institution yet to answer 'elementary' project management questions after upgrade left staff and suppliers unpaid CxO03 May 2023 | 43
Mirai botnet loves exploiting your unpatched TP-Link routers, CISA warns Oracle and Apache holes also on Uncle Sam's list of big bad abused bugs Patches02 May 2023 | 1