Oracle's Critical Patch Updates keep getting bigger. The database giant addressed a number of remotely exploitable flaws in Java, MySQL, and Oracle Database this quarter Bigger is not necessarily ...

Oracle's Java plugin for browsers is a notoriously insecure product. Over the past 18 months, the company has released 11 updates, six of them containing critical security fixes. With each update ...

While the self-driving database technology announced by Oracle's CTO Larry Ellison at its recent Oracle OpenWorld conference represents a new vision for data management—it's made possible in ...

Oracle Database’s vendor share of more than 40% (including both on-premises and cloud) puts it well ahead of the #2 and #3 databases, Microsoft SQL Server and IBM DB2, according to analyst ...

The target audience for this whitepaper includes database administrators, enterprise architects, systems administrators, and developers who would like to run their Oracle Database on AWS. To ...

When Microsoft announced last summer it had reached an agreement to run the Oracle database, WebLogic middleware and Java on Windows Azure, it seemed as though two worlds were colliding. After all ...

Oracle gets to annoy IBM---and own Java---over a few pennies a share more than Big Blue was willing to pay. Oracle gets to kill MySQL. There's no way Ellison will let that open source database ...

After all, Oracle got its start in the 1970s selling a database product based on the then-new structured query language (SQL). SQL was invented by IBM. And Oracle doesn't seem to have gotten a ...