Oracle is supposed today to announce “the world’s first” OLTP Database Machine based on what it calls FlashFire technology from Sun. Reportedly FlashFire is solid-state disk (SSD) technology. It’s Oracle’s way of thumbing its nose at the European Commission, whose investigation ...

Gartner analyst Will Cappelli talks about how applications have become central to enterprise IT operations, and how complex architectures have led to significant challenges in monitoring and managing the performance of applications. As enterprise application architectures become more m...

As the complexity, immediacy, and scope of enterprise processes increase, so does the risk of failure. Comprehensive, proactive management of next-generation information processes and services is critical. Traditional application management tools are inadequate to manage next-generatio...

Web Applications are now woven into the way that many enterprises operate, and monitoring and management of these applications become extremely important to businesses that require nimble datacenters. The risks of failure rise as enterprise application complexity, immediacy, and scope....

What do the following industry executives have in common: the CTOs of Citrix, EMC and Sybase, the Founders of ParaScale and CloudSwitch, the CEOs of Zetta and Kaavo, the Chief Security Architect at Sun, the President of Hubspan and the Chairman of NComputing? The answer is that, alo...

Oracle bought a hard-to-miss piece of the front page of the Wall Street Journal Thursday to run an ad apparently in hopes of arresting the increasing erosion in Sun’s server business. The bulleted ad is addressed to Sun customers and says Oracle “plans to spend more money developin...

IBM’s chief economist thinks the recession is over. EMC’s CFO thinks the worst of the budget lock is over for high-tech firms. And the Federal Reserve’s got a new survey suggesting the economy is growing again by 3%-4% in most of the US due to business spending. Unemployment hit 9.7% i...

The United States Postal Service, which will be lucky if it only loses $7.1 billion by the end of its fiscal year in September, and escapes with a cash shortfall of $700 million and a debt load of $10.2 billion, has come to the cloud in the wake of its FedEx and UPS rivals. The pos...

JBoss' expert technical support services are clearly acknowledged by its client base as well as the comprehensive nature by which their service is unsurpassed. Every category that was evaluated resulted in JBoss rating higher than the competition. More important, JBoss' performance has...

SOA does not have to be overly complex or expensive. This white paper shows you how the JBoss SOA Assessment Tool can help you chart a course to a successful SOA implementation. And the broad portfolio of JBoss Enterprise Middleware can help you get there, with fully supported platform...

Gartner database analyst Donald Feinberg and his colleague George Weiss told Cnet that the only reason the European Commission is holding up the Oracle-Sun deal on the pretext of investigating Oracle’s intentions on MySQL is “political” and “protectionist” – as though the rest of us di...

SpringSource, a provider of Java application infrastructure and management, has announced that iCIMS, a provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) talent acquisition solutions, has deployed SpringSource Hyperic HQ, a key part of SpringSource’s full solution set, which covers the entire b...

Sun said Wednesday that it’s got an update to its MySQL Enterprise subscription called MySQL Enterprise Fall 2009 that will let DBAs graphically drill down into database bottlenecks to improve application performance. The widgetry can be had for the moment on a free 30-day trial subscr...

Remember back in 2005 when Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was so ticked with the brain drain Microsoft was losing to Google that when Microsoft search VP Kai-fu Lee, the guy who started Microsoft Research China, walked into Ballmer's office and said he was going to Google too Ballmer thre...

The worst fears of Sun’s long-suffering shareholders have come to pass. The European Commission has opened up a full-blown antitrust investigation of Oracle’s proposed $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun, throwing a monkey wrench into plans to close the deal now. A decision on wheth...

Red Hat has delivered on its JBoss Open Choice strategy and announced availability of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.0. This core middleware product represents next generation Java application platforms and will be integral to Red Hat's cloud foundation. JBoss Enterprise Appli...

As the clock ticks and the September 3 deadline nears, speculation is rising that the European Commission may throw a spanner into the Oracle-Sun merger and delay things another four months. Reuters said late Tuesday that EC regulators were fretting over the competitive implication...

Intalio, The Enterprise Cloud Company, has announced the acquisition of Webtide, the team behind the Jetty open source Java application server. Jetty is currently used on millions of web servers, and powers products such as Cisco SESM, Google AppEngine, Google GWT, HP OpenView, IBM Tiv...

DS Data Systems UK Ltd. is pleased to announce the release of KonaKart v4.1.0.0, a Java-based eCommerce shopping cart application that provides an extensive set of features to enable retailers to successfully sell their products over the Internet. KonaKart is a Java / JSP / XML based s...

Sun tiptoed out its June results. No press release and certainly no conference call, only a SEC filing and a posting on its web site last Friday, covering what will probably be its last quarter as an independent company before it collapses into Oracle’s waiting arms – that is unless th...

DevExpress technologies for Visual Studio help you build your best, reduce the amount of code you write, increase your productivity, and create stunning applications for Windows and the Web in the shortest possible time. DevExpress.com is proud to announce the immediate availability of...

SYS-CON’s SOA World Magazine announced today that nominations will close on September 4 for the SOA World Magazine Readers' Choice Awards. These awards recognize excellence in the software, solutions, or services provided by the industry's top vendors. Voting will begin on September 7 ...

SYS-CON's Virtualization Journal announced today that nominations are now open for its second annual Virtualization Readers' Choice Awards. SYS-CON's Readers' Choice Awards, also known as the "Oscars of the Software Industry," has been one of the most prestigious industry award program...

SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal announced today that nominations are now open for its first annual Cloud Computing Readers' Choice Awards. SYS-CON's Readers' Choice Awards, also known as the "Oscars of the Software Industry," has been one of the most prestigious industry award progra...

“We are pleased to recognize these customers who exemplify innovative, forward-looking and effective ways of implementing Sybase technology,” said Dr. Raj Nathan, senior vice president and CMO, Sybase. “These applications of our leading technologies to manage, analyze and mobilize data...

On a recent project I had to call Java REST services from a .NET Client. Several problems came up – ranging from authentication to hidden performance issues. I want to share my lessons learned and encourage you to share your own opinions and experiences on this topic. The Context...

Volantis Systems, a member of the Oracle PartnerNetwork, has announced that it has added enhanced scalability and integration to the latest version of its Mobile Content Storefront. This latest release of Volantis Mobile Content Storefront includes out-of-the-box integration with Oracl...

Oracle said late Thursday that its $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun was okay with the Justice Department. That leaves the European Commission, which has until September 3 to decide whether it’s going to give the deal a green light too or launch a Phase II investigation that would ruin O...

Terracotta and Ehcache, two promising open source companies, expect to register a slight tremor on the Richter scale today when the industry, particularly the Java contingent, finds out that Terracotta bought Ehcache last week. The move, after Ehcache reportedly rejected three other of...

iTKO says HP is going to resell its LISA Virtualize software combined with HP’s quality management, functional and performance testing solutions. It’s supposed to accelerate software testing and reduce the cost of developing increasingly complex modern applications. What LISA does is d...

The Wall Street Journal doesn’t think Oracle can make its end-of-August schedule for closing its Sun acquisition because of the regulators on both sides of the pond. The paper’s also talked to legal experts that say Oracle may be required to divest something or accept licensing conditi...

Oracle sent its Sun acquisition papers to the European Commission seeking approval of the merger and the EC has until September 3 to decide to allow it or make Oracle’s life miserable. The regulator is already asking third parties a lot of questions about MySQL and whether, for instanc...

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VMware is buying privately held SpringSource, the San Mateo, California, outfit behind the open source Spring Framework for Java application development, a totally new direction for VMware having nothing at all to do with virtualization – at least not on the surface. The acquisition wi...

The summer holiday period means that long traffic jams build up throughout Germany. It is now possible to ascertain the current traffic situation whilst on the move by accessing all traffic and traffic jam reports across the Federal Republic via mobile phone under wap.adac.de. Netbiscu...

We have released Exadel JavaFX Studio plug-in for Eclipse version 1.0.2 . The biggest feature in this version is error markers in the editor. Previously the compiler would run and report the errors in standard Eclipse console but wouldn’t put error markers in editor. How to get sta...

Two Degrees Mobile (http://www.2degreesmobile.co.nz/) is New Zealand’s newest mobile company. They’ve spent $250 million constructing a brand new mobile network in New Zealand and have launched their offering this week with extremely aggressive pricing. This upstart telecoms operatio...

Elastic Grid, LLC is pleased to announce the Elastic Rack project. As part of Elastic Grid project commitment to provide a cloud virtualization layer, the Elastic Grid team was in need of a Java API which would drive the Rackspace Cloud Servers API. This Java API is now available as...

Cast your mind back a few weeks to when the American Law Institute (ALI), which has far more clout than it deserves, came up with its Principles of the Law of Software Contracts, a bit of insanity that both Microsoft and the Linux Foundation, rare-if-never allies, joined in protesting ...

Sun GlassFish Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is a lightweight and agile ESB platform that packages the innovation happening with Project Open ESB, the GlassFish application server, and the NetBeans IDE into a commercially supported, enterprise-class platform. Those who are developing app...