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2009-11-09
UPDATED: The EC, antitrust arm of the 27-nation European Union, informed both Oracle and Sun about the decision because the deal includes the freely available and popular MySQL Web database. The regulators see a major conflict of interest in the world's largest commercial database company owning its largest open source competitor.
2009-11-06
In an interview with eWEEK, former MySQL CEO Marten Mickos says "there's no rational argument" for preventing Oracle from acquiring all of Sun, including MySQL with its open-source relational database software. The competitive pressure that MySQL exerts on the market will preserve the independence of the database no matter who owns the product, Mickos asserts.
2009-11-05
The European Commission, the antitrust arm of the 27-nation European Union, apparently will lodge the objection because the deal includes the freely available and popular MySQL Web database, and the EC sees a major conflict of interest in the world's largest commercial database company owning its largest open-source competitor.
2009-11-03
At the PASS conference, Microsoft announces two new premium editions of SQL Server 2008 R2. The upcoming editions are SQL Server 2008 R2 Datacenter and SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse.
2009-10-30
Oracle withdraws its petition to obtain antitrust clearance to do business in Russia after its acquisition of Sun Microsystems. The Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia requires that once it is notified of a merger or acquisition that may infringe upon antitrust laws, the companies involved have a maximum of 90 working days to complete the deal. Oracle does not believe the acquisition will be sanctioned by EC regulators within the 90-day window.
2009-10-28
SAP reports quarterly revenues that fell by 9 percent thanks to a decrease in spending on business software, but increased adoption of its products by SMBs may help it through economically challenging times. The president of SAP North America suggests that SAP is unconcerned by the seemingly imminent acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle.
2009-10-28
SAP cuts its sales outlook based on weakness in emerging markets and in Japan, leaving investors wondering where the company will attract new buyers for its high-end software given a client base still keeping costs in check.
2009-10-27
SAP will release a new version of its SAP BusinessObjects Explorer platform in November, allowing for accelerated enterprise search and what it says is an improved user interface. The updated version of BusinessObjects Explorer will allow enterprise data sets besides those warehoused by SAP to be ported into the platform for analysis. SAP has launched a number of enterprise platforms and applications in 2009, frequently in collaboration with companies such as Cisco and Hewlett-Packard.
2009-10-26
UPDATED: Former MySQL business adviser Florian Mueller and members of the EC believe that Oracle owning MySQL through its acquisition of Sun is a colossal conflict of interest, since Oracle would suddenly become the new owner of its biggest open-source competitor -- one that has 6 million installations and is gaining thousands more each month.
2009-10-26
CA is rolling out new and enhanced management software for virtualized environments. The new capabilities are designed to make it easier to deploy and manage these virtualized environments, and come as enterprises continue to expand their use of virtualization technology.
2009-10-24
Analysis: Industry experts have varying opinions on whether Oracle should divest itself of MySQL so: a) it can conclude the $7.4 billion Sun Microsystems acquisition, and b) satisfy people who are concerned that Oracle will own a database monopoly. But most agree on one thing: No one really knows what Oracle's intentions for MySQL are.
2009-10-20
UPDATED: Digital civil liberties organization Open Rights Group, Knowledge Ecology International and software developer Richard Stallman tell the EC in a letter that they are concerned about Oracle's possible squashing of competition in the database market by abandoning MySQL.
2009-10-19
Greenplum is offering a free version of its massively parallel processing (MPP) database to target what it considers a new class of data analysts.
2009-10-15
At Oracle OpenWorld, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and his team made the case for Exadata Database Machine Version 2, as Netezza and others react to its pitch.
2009-10-13
SAP and Hewlett-Packard announce the integration of SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse with HP Neoview, allowing end users to use their SAP business intelligence applications alongside HP’s Neoview platform to acquire and provision massive amounts of database information. Earlier in 2009, HP and SAP collaborated on a method for speeding up business transactions for messages sized from 7MB to 15MB.
2009-10-13
The enhanced SPARC64 VII processors from Sun and Fujitsu offer 25 percent better performance than previous version as well as an upgraded memory controller. The announcement of the new chips comes as Oracle and Sun host Oracle OpenWorld and Oracle CEO Larry Ellison challenges IBM in the hardware business. Oracle is still awaiting approval from European regulators on its proposed $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun.
2009-10-13
At Oracle OpenWorld, Oracle executive Robert Shimp responds to IBM's pureScale technology, the latest attempt by IBM to challenge Oracle's database business.
2009-10-12
At Oracle OpenWorld 2009, Oracle co-presidents Charles Phillips and Safra Catz focused on highlighting Oracle's strategy of delivering an integrated application stack.
2009-10-12
HP is extending its support for Oracle applications with a series of new provisioning templates for BladeSystem Matrix users. HP announced the product plans Oct. 12 at the Oracle OpenWorld 2009 conference.
2009-10-09
IBM has developed new software called DB2pureScale for IBM Power Systems with the intent of increasing database transaction capacity while cutting costs and risks faced by businesses with growing systems. The software will compete against Oracle's Real Application Clusters technology, and is being announced just days before the start of the Oracle OpenWorld 2009 convention in San Francisco.
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