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 ...

As we have been discussing already, our software applications are moving, natively, to the cloud. What that really means is that our devices (smartphones, tablets, laptops and desktops) will still ...

Oracle reports patching a security flaw in Agile PLM The bug was being exploited in the wild to steal files More than 1,000 companies could be vulnerable Oracle has fixed a vulnerability in its Oracle ...

Oracle’s long-awaited 12c database is now available for download, according to the company’s official website. Download links for the product were available on the site as of late Tuesday. While it ...

Oracle and SAP have settled a long-running lawsuit over SAP employees illegally downloading Oracle files. The lawsuit involved SAP's TomorrowNow unit, as reported by Reuters. The now-defunct German ...

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Oracle Financial Services Software Limited was erstwhile incorporated in September 27, 1989 as Citicorp Information Technology Industries Limited. The Company changed its name from Citicorp ...

There’s something of a trend around legacy software firms and their soaring valuations: Companies founded in dinosaur times are on a tear, evidenced this week with SAP‘s shares topping $200 for the ...

Salesforce CRM and Oracle ORCL are two of the biggest names in the cloud software market. Both companies offer powerful, enterprise-grade platforms spanning customer relationship management, ...

Google's parent company Alphabet is moving its internal financial operations from Oracle to SAP software. The news, first reported by CNBC, coincidentally comes on the same day the Supreme Court gave ...