Software AG today provided comment on the recent announcement of Oracle Corporation and Sun Microsystems’ acquisition noting that big mergers can create complexity for the customers.

In Moscow when the Oracle-Sun news broke, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told Reuters that he was “very surprised” and that having just heard about it, he needed to think about it. Evidently they didn’t warn him ahead of time. Having thought about it for a couple of days, he told the Amer...

How odd. Southeastern Asset Management, which spent $2.1 billion buying 22% of Sun over the last few years, didn’t wait around to collect Oracle’s $9.50 a share, money it should have been able to pick up by summer and a price it would have lost roughly $500,000 on. Instead it sold most...

OpenXava 3.1.2, released recently, is a model-driven framework to develop Java Enterprise applications in an agile way: With OpenXava you provide only your POJOs annotated with JPA and you obtain an AJAX application ready for production.

VMIX continues to grow as a market leader with year-over-year triple-digit revenue growth and an expanding client list of dominant brands including Scion, Burton Snowboards, American Cancer Society, as well as top media and entertainment groups, including Tribune Company, McClatchy, Le...

The conventional approach to scaling Java applications – distributing applications out on a large number of instances – yields diminishing returns, which leads to unpredictable scalability and escalating costs and complexity. Azul Compute Appliances have proven to dramatically increase...

What are best practices for building installers for Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Linux, IBM i, and more? Find out in this Webinar. Learn how to build a single project file that generates installers for every platform you target. Also see a demo of InstallAnywhere, the #1 installer tool for Jav...

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Charles Fitzgerald suspects IBM is going to regret not acquiring Sun, and letting Oracle do so instead. "They regretted giving Microsoft control of the software crown jewels for the PC; they may face similar situation now on the server." Fitzgerald knows whereof he speaks, having been ...

And to think, had IBM "gone mad" and offered a few more billions, it might have saved itself potential billions and billions and billions of lost revenue.

Today's announcement was made at the seventh annual MySQL Conference & Expo (http://www.mysqlconf.com) being held this week at the Santa Clara Convention Center. With more than 2,000 attendees, it is the world's largest event for open source database developers, DBAs, vendors and corpo...

MySQL, written in C and C++, was first released internally on 23 May 1995. Version 5.1 was released 27 November 2008 and the next version will MySQL 6. In April 2009, Oracle Corporation entered into an agreement to purchase Sun Microsystems, current owners of the MySQL intellectual pro...

InterSystems Corporation announced the winners of its annual worldwide Innovator Awards competition. The awards honor and encourage development of innovative solutions that utilize one or more of InterSystems’ software products. Entries were received from a large field of developers in...

"It's almost impossible to overestimate the importance of Java to Oracle," wrote industry commentator Neil McAllister as the first rumors of the Oracle-Sun deal began to surface last week. McAllister referred to Java as "the crown jewel of this deal." So the question reverberating thro...

"Casualties? Java and MySQL for sure, and perhaps Sun's hardware business," says CyberTech Rambler; "Oracle can utilize Sun's Solaris and Java platforms....However the future of MySQL has not been mentioned and may not be so rosy," notes Steve Kennedy. The blogosphere is abuzz with new...

In a brilliant retrieve from the really nasty situation it was in after its deal to get bought by IBM fell apart, Sun surprised everybody who thought it had no options left – which was practically everybody – by turning up this morning with a deal to get bought by Oracle, Sun’s sometim...

In case you missed it Oracle announced this morning that it will be acquiring Sun Microsystems. The transaction is valued at approximately $7.4 billion. This news means the technology landscape is about to radically change and quite possibly, Sun hardware is now dead. The software aspe...

Oracle News Coverage was initiated today on Ulizter with 16,807 original articles, news stories and blog entries. Ulitzer content is grouped in 25 distinct subjects from "Aerospace and Defense" to "Travel and Hospitality." Each subject group offers an unlimited number of topics, and ea...

Oracle and Sun Microsystems announced today they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Oracle will acquire Sun common stock for $9.50 per share in cash. The transaction is valued at approximately $7.4 billion, or $5.6 billion net of Sun's cash and debt. "We expect this a...

PreEmptive Solutions, the leading provider of solutions to protect, monitor and manage software development investments, announced the immediate availability of DashO Version 5, integrating application security with business performance monitoring for Java-based applications. This late...

With Sun’s destiny uncertain – and its users undoubtedly nail-bitingly anxious – Dell, which is not in great shape itself, is looking to land a few competitive body blows on the stumbling giant. It’s offering to migrate Sun customers from their legacy Unix systems to its Nehalem-based ...

Well, if rebuffing IBM's $7 billion offer as too low the weekend before last was a negotiating tactic then the gambit has blown up in Sun's face according CNBC. Following a Bloomberg story saying Sun wanted IBM to come back to the table - a story that made no mention of price - CNBC ru...

Trapped down a dark alley with nowhere else to go, Sun is ready to restart takeover talks with IBM provided IBM puts more starch in its commitment to actually close the deal despite whatever regulatory hurdles it has to vault, according to Bloomberg, which has it from two people "famil...

Well, if rebuffing IBM’s $7 billion offer as too low the weekend before last was a negotiating tactic, then the gambit has blown up in Sun’s face, according CNBC. Following a Bloomberg story saying Sun wanted IBM to come back to the table – a story that made no mention of price – CNBC ...

We would like to take this opportunity to thank our readers, authors, and the newly born Ulitzer community for making our March 29 beta launch an astonishing success! Ulitzer is on its way to becoming one of the fastest growing professional viral sites on the Internet.

Here’s the roadmap for Clear Toolkit 4 for the year of 2009: 1. Offer data syncrhonization solution for AIR/BlaseDS applications - March 2009 2. Enhance Flex UI component to support PDF generation on the client - April 2009 3. Release documentation on classes from Clear component libra...

It was only a matter of time before we started seeing real how-to's pop up on how we can start profiling our Java applications running deep within the cloud. When my long term friend and colleague, Kirk Pepperdine, started talking about taking his world class Java performance tuning sk...

Managed Methods develops and sells versatile and cost-effective solutions products for monitoring Web services and managing service-oriented architectures. Our focus is providing practical tools that enable visibility and management of Web services operations in the production environm...

It’s still unclear whether the IBM-Sun talks might be revived. Since the Sun board evidently rejected a roughly $7 billion offer from IBM as too low over the weekend, there have been reports that it was split into factions led on the one hand by Sun's pony-tailed CEO Jonathan Schwartz,...

Managed Methods Inc. (www.managedmethods.com ) the leader in SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) visibility and SOA runtime governance today announced the support for windows integrated security for both the NTLM and Kerberos authentication methods. This capability expands the SOA envi...

Big news from Sun Microsystems today on several fronts, first there is talk of an IBM / Sun merger and second Sun has offically unveiled their Open Cloud Platform & API. Exciting news on both fronts. As a member of the Sun Cloud Computing Strategic Advisory Council, I have been working...

The racks and racks and racks of commodity servers that make the Web 2.0 world and now the cloud possible are really lousy at it. They're slow, underutilized, don't scale worth a hoot, eat power and space, and now they're multi-core. They need extensive data partitioning, application-l...

Rackable Systems, the large-scale server wannabe, said Wednesday that it's buying the now bankrupt SGI for roughly $25 million in cash plus the assumption of certain liabilities. The once-great SGI closed at 41 cents a share Tuesday with a market cap of $4.78 million.

Google's now year-old App Engine infrastructure, previously limited to running only programs written in a particular species of Python, a less-than-mainstream tongue but an internal Google favorite, is learning to accept programs written in Java. With the move, Google is reaching out t...

Aptana Journal launched today on Ulitzer. Aptana Studio is a complete web development environment that combines powerful authoring tools with a collection of online hosting and collaboration services that help you and your team do more, at www.aptana.com. The editor of Aptana Journal, ...

Active Endpoints, Inc., has announced that despite tough economic conditions its ActiveVOS business process management suite (BPMS) continued to grow rapidly in Q1 of 2009 by acquiring new customers and expanding ActiveVOS deployments in existing customers. This success is due in part ...

Tidal Software has announced Tidal Transaction Analyzer for SAP Solutions version 1.9. This version is the most recent step in the company’s plans to introduce a broad set of SAP management solutions that provide automation, and accelerate problem isolation for SAP users. Tidal Transac...

Sun's board rejected a formal IBM offer for the company Saturday as too low, according to the Wall Street Journal. Apparently the price IBM offered was $9.40 a share or less, down from a reported $9.55 late last week. IBM pulled its roughly $7 billion offer off the table on Sunday, acc...

In his keynote session at Cloud Computing Expo in New York City, Dave Douglas, Senior Vice President of Cloud Computing and Chief Sustainability Officer at Sun Microsystems, investigated how enterprise IT operations can take advantage of this emerging world of many clouds to achieve th...

The Wall Street Journal, flourishing its unidentified sources, said Thursday afternoon that the price IBM is willing to pay for Sun had drop from between $10 and $11 a share to between $9 and $10 and that Sun is willing to accept the cut - yeah, like it wouldn't - provided IBM gives it...