- Thu Aug 13 12:28 PM PDT 2009 Oracle launches tool for virtual appliances
The database specialist has released a template builder that taps into JeOS to help developers build virtual appliances for Oracle VMs.
- Sun Jun 28 3:45 PM PDT 2009 Why Oracle will continue to win
Oracle has positioned itself to remain the dominant force in enterprise database and application sales. It's as simple as selling more, more of the time.
- Thu Jun 4 4:09 AM PDT 2009 Open-source freeloaders, inventions and replacements
Much has been made of open-source disruption. But what does it take to be successful as a stand-alone open source company?
- Wed May 13 10:44 AM PDT 2009 Woodside moves forward on Jobs' demo permit
Town council votes almost unanimously to advance process relating to Apple CEO's plans to tear down a dilapidated 1935 mansion to make room for a smaller, modern home.
- Wed Apr 29 6:01 AM PDT 2009 SAP software revenue skids in first quarter
What's unclear is how much SAP's software revenue slide is attributed to the economy versus pushback from customers annoyed with maintenance fees.
- Mon Apr 20 8:45 AM PDT 2009 Oracle buys integration challenge along with Sun
Acquiring Sun would gives Oracle a powerful injection of new technology, but the sales pitch of integrated hardware and software has fallen on deaf ears so far.
- Mon Apr 20 8:45 AM PDT 2009 Oracle reels in Sun for $7.4 billion
roundup After weeks of speculation about whether Sun was for sale, it turns out the buyer isn't IBM, but software heavyweight Oracle.
- Mon Apr 20 4:53 AM PDT 2009 Oracle to buy Sun in $7.4 billion deal
Oracle says the takeover will be more profitable per share in the first year than was planned for the acquisitions of BEA, PeopleSoft, and Siebel combined.
- Tue Mar 17 1:57 PM PDT 2009 Q&A: 10 questions with Salesforce's Marc Benioff
A decade after starting his company, Benioff has defied skeptics and shown his software-as-a-service business model can work. He's not afraid to admit a little unorthodox marketing helps, too.
- Mon Mar 16 6:53 AM PDT 2009 Salesforce.com: Pondering the next 10 years
The mission will be to build new areas beyond CRM. Of course, Salesforce.com would be a fine subsidiary of an enterprise software giant like SAP or Oracle.




