In a move promises to have significant ramifications for customers, partners and competitors, Oracle last monday announced its pending acquisition of Sun Microsystems.
Readers share their thoughts on Microsoft's SDS change of heart, and VSM's redesign.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 05/01/2009
PHP and MySQL have beaten Microsoft at the game it practically invented.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 05/01/2009
The release candidate (RC) of Windows 7, Microsoft's newest operating system, can be downloaded today by Microsoft TechNet and MSDN (Microsoft Developer Network) subscribers.
The general release date for Windows 7 on new PCs could be as early as this October, according to an Acer executive.
Microsoft provided a couple of Windows 7 tidbits on Friday, confirming the availability of Windows 7 release candidate (RC) and describing a forthcoming virtualization capability in the new operating system.
IBM this week announced a new version of its flagship DB2 database with software that will provide compatibility with applications built for Oracle databases.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/23/2009
Microsoft announced its fiscal third-quarter results for 2009, which showed an overall six percent decrease in revenue compared with last year's Q3 result.
A day after Oracle announced plans to acquire Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion, MySQL, one of Sun's own recent acquisitions, unveiled the next version of its popular open source database.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/22/2009
Oracle's agreement to acquire Sun will reshape the landscape of tools and platforms for Java and database developers, but it also means a change in emphasis -- or even the demise -- of some key tools, development platforms and databases.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/21/2009
Terracotta Inc. last week released a higher throughput version of its open source in-memory database caching platform.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/21/2009
Oracle today said it has agreed to acquire Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion, or $5.6 billion net of cash and debt.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/20/2009
The European Commission (EC) granted Microsoft another week to respond to a competition complaint involving its Internet Explorer Web browser.
Microsoft released a public beta version of Exchange Server 2010, the company's newest e-mail server, which is being rolled out a part of the company's renewed focus on the unified communications market.
Microsoft this week rolled out the next community test version of a distributed cache platform code-named "Velocity" that promises to speed up .NET-based applications.