Customers at the annual powwow in San Francisco will hear how the business software maker is opening its arms to partners. But will they also find out how Oracle's effort to merge products picked up in acquisitions is going?

Oracle to offer Red Hat Linux support

Announcement marks the first time a major computing company will be in direct competition with the Linux seller.
October 25, 2006

Oracle has yet to prove Linux cred

news analysis Software giant's bid to steal Red Hat's business hurts Red Hat, but Oracle has a long way to go before proving its Linux chops.
October 27, 2006

Sending the penguins out with a hot foot

perspective CNET News.com's Charles Cooper says Larry Ellison's open-source move is part of a bigger transformation at Oracle.
October 27, 2006

Web 2.0 a catalyst in Oracle's Fusion

Net-related tools are a driving force in the project to fuse together various products picked up in acquisition spree, top exec says.
October 25, 2006

Sun sees future in computing service providers

CEO favors customers who are expanding networked services over "the pedestal server for a flower shop in a shopping mall."
October 25, 2006

Oracle unveils two Fusion Middleware suites

One offers tight integration among Fusion products, third-party sources, the other features Web 2.0 developer tools.
October 25, 2006

Tech giants court mainframe customers

HP unveils a service that helps customers break away from mainframes, while IBM hopes they stay--and both programs are backed by Oracle.
October 24, 2006

The knights say: No more, please

blog Dell runs a four-minute video resembling a cross between "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," "South Park" and a white paper on Unix to Linux migration.
October 23, 2006

AMD's Ruiz and Dell, together at last

Oracle's OpenWorld marks joint appearance of AMD head Hector Ruiz and Michael Dell, the PC maker's chief, whose companies finally became partners this year.
October 23, 2006

Dell debuts first two AMD servers

Former Intel stronghold begins selling servers using AMD's Opteron chip; more partnership products expected.
Photos: Dell's new AMD servers
October 23, 2006

Oracle's new plan: Make friends, don't buy them

Best known for regularly buying other software makers, Oracle is now making nice with partners to help it expand.
October 23, 2006

Oracle announces Database 11g beta

Company says beta includes 482 new features designed to add flexibility to database administration.
October 23, 2006

Oracle to acquire MetaSolv

Acquisition campaign continues with $219 million deal for company that serves telecommunications providers.
October 23, 2006

Phillips touts Fusion's heat

The company is baking its Fusion strategy into its enterprise software applications "at the factory."
October 22, 2006

Ubuntu chief: Oracle Linux has 'tactical value'

Oracle could benefit from offering its own Linux, according to Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth.
October 21, 2006

NBA's Warriors get assist from Oracle

blog The Golden State Warriors will now play basketball in "the Oracle."
October 20, 2006

MySQL introduces Community Server database

Open-source database company introduces two offerings, one for corporate customers and one for developers.
October 18, 2006

Oracle-Ubuntu tie-up coming?

blog A trail of breadcrumbs seems to be connecting the database powerhouse with the Ubuntu version of Linux.
October 18, 2006

Oracle sweetens partner plans

Later this month, the software giant will introduce initiatives to increase business through partners. October 8, 2006

The fight for Wall Street cred

newsmaker Co-president Charles Phillips says his former brethren are doing a poor job of grading the company's performance.
May 16, 2006

Oracle sweeps up Siebel

special coverage Siebel's 12 years of independence comes to an end in the form of a $5.8 billion buyout.
September 13, 2005