On June 16, Oracle Corporation released financial results for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2016, and corporate executives trumpeted the company’s cloud services success. According to the latest ...

Java is the new king of foistware, displacing Adobe and Skype from the top of the heap. And it earned that place with a combination of software update practices that are among the most user-hostile ...

When Oracle bought Sun Microsystems in April 2009 for $7.4 billion, Oracle’s Larry Ellison said Java was “the single most important software asset we have ever acquired.” Two months later, appearing ...

The IT industry modernizes the rest of the economy, and IT itself undergoes endless modification. Still, some things stay constant in this environment: Java continues to be the fundamental coding ...

Oracle’s July 2026 Critical Patch Update, its largest ever, contains 1,449 new security patches spanning 32 product families, ...

Spurred by changes In Oracle’s Java licensing, Azul says businesses are turning to the company’s OpenJDK platform as an alternative, spurring demand through the vendor’s VAR, systems integrator and ...

When Oracle bought Sun Microsystems four years ago, it quickly and ruthlessly started tearing out the unprofitable stuff. Sun was a company run by engineers, a Xerox-PARC-like outfit where a cool idea ...

Analyst Gartner has warned that new changes to Java licensing has meant Oracle will actively target organisations, even those who do not run any Oracle products, on Java compliance. Gartner reported ...

Sun Chairman Scott McNealy (left) with Oracle chief Larry Ellison. With the move- valued at $7.4 billion including Sun's debt - Oracle also becomes a full-fledged hardware player. Oracle has been ...