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I've noted before that we are witnessing a classic patent thicket in the realm of smartphones, with everyone and his or her dog suing ev...

At first sight, this extraordinary legal action against most of the digital world's leading lights might seem one of a kind: Interval Li...

The Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG) recently surveyed their members about open source and has now published their findings. A few high...

It would be hard to imagine a greater contrast between Larry "Ninja" Ellison's personal plaything, aka Oracle, and the hacker...

Time to throw those hats in the air, methinks : Red Hat, Inc. the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced fin...

An interesting post from Mr Carr, notable as much for its title - "Larrying Wikipedia" - as for the idea it encapsulates: Why, in ...

What do you want if you are worth $18 billion and have the third-largest motor yacht in the world? Simple: revenge. Oracle's Unbreaka...

After Larry " I'd like to have the complete stack " Ellison, it seems that Sun is joining the Club of Stack Love. Not such a...

I'm not a great fan of market research companies, but these studies certainly sound eminently sensible to me. No wonder Larry's de...

After middleware , now business intelligence . Burning down the house (of closed source) - seeping up the stack.

The tantalising story in the FT that Oracle is ruminating upon acquiring one of the main GNU/Linux distributions - well, Novell - is bound...

This story has so many interesting elements in it that it's just got to be true. According to Business Week , Oracle is poised to snap ...