Oracle overtakes IBM as second-largest software vendor, Gartner says
Oracle has overtaken rival IBM as the world's second-largest software vendor by pulling in $29.6 billion in software revenue during 2013, according to analyst firm Gartner. "Global trends around big data and analytics with business investment in database and cloud-based applications helped to drive Oracle's top-line growth," Gartner research vice president Chad Eschinger said in a statement.
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Many SAP customers struggling to figure out its mobility strategy
It's been nearly four years since SAP got into enterprise mobility with the acquisition of Sybase, but many customers still don't quite understand its mobile product strategy, according to a new survey by the Americas' SAP Users' Group.
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Windows 7 SP 1 downloads once again available from Digital River
Late last week, the Windows 7 Service Pack 1 ISO downloads at Digital River suddenly dried up.
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Microsoft's executive musical chairs takes a new twist
In an all-hands memo this morning, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella made three appointments: Scott Guthrie, aka ScottGu and formerly interim head of the Cloud & Enterprise organization becomes Executive VP; Steven Elop officially nails the s
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Linux 3.14 kernel revision beefs up ARM, VM support
The latest Linux kernel's revision number may be 3.14, but don't expect any pi jokes in the release notes.
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Healthcare.gov experiences maintenance outage on deadline day
The U.S. government's flagship health insurance exchange website, Healthcare.gov, was temporarily shut down Monday, the deadline for people to sign up for health coverage under the new law. Monday's outage was intentional so that technicians could fix a software bug, a Department of Health and Human Services spokeswoman said via email. Teams extended the site's regular overnight maintenance window and "brought the system online gradually to best meet consumer demand," she added.
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SQL and NoSQL come together with new MariaDB Enterprise offerings
Hoping to give database managers and developers more flexibility in handling vast amounts of data, SkySQL is releasing versions of its MariaDB-based Enterprise and Enterprise Cluster products that offer integration with NoSQL databases. The growing number of users on mobile devices and cloud services has led to a rapid increase in the amount of data handled by enterprises. This has changed demands put on databases and opened the door for NoSQL databases, thanks to their flexibility and ability to scale more easily than traditional relational database management systems.
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End of an era: Longtime Microsoft exec Antoine Leblond retires
Today is Antoine Leblond's last day at Microsoft.
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Oracle doubles the speed of MySQL query handling
For the next release of its open source MySQL, Oracle is making a number of changes designed to vastly boost the speed of the open source relational database management system. Such a sizeable performance bump could help organizations save money in server purchases, because it would require fewer servers to run large jobs. Or, it will allow them to run complex queries that might have taken too long to run on earlier versions of the database system, said Tomas Ulin, Oracle vice president of MySQL engineering.
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Activists to appeal US judge's ruling on Baidu's 'censorship as free speech'
A group of activists are hoping to appeal a U.S. judge's ruling that treated the censorship on Chinese search engine Baidu as free speech. In making the ruling, District Judge Jesse Furman equated the censorship to a newspaper exercising its editorial right to publish what it wants. But Stephen Preziosi, lawyer for the eight pro-democracy activists, said in an email Saturday that the comparison was wrong, and that the court had a "fundamental misunderstanding" of how search engines work.
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Smartphone kill-switch could save consumers $2.6 billion per year
Technology that remotely makes a stolen smartphone useless could save American consumers up to $2.6 billion per year if it is implemented widely and leads to a reduction in theft of phones, according to a new report. Law enforcement officials and politicians are pressuring cellular carriers to make such technology standard on all phones shipped in the U.S. in response to the increasing number of smartphone thefts. They believe the so-called "kill switch" would reduce the number of thefts if stolen phones were routinely locked so they became useless.
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Bank pulls out of class-action suit against Target, Trustwave
One of the two banks suing Target and security vendor Trustwave over responsibility for one the largest data breaches in history has pulled out of the lawsuit. Trustmark National Bank, of New York, filed a notice of dismissal of its claims on Friday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
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Trial to proceed in Silicon Valley employee 'no poaching' case
A lawsuit that accuses Google, Apple and other top Silicon Valley companies of driving down wages by agreeing not to hire each other's workers can go to trial, a judge has ruled. The case alleges that executives including former Apple CEO Steve Jobs and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt agreed not to poach the other's workers during a period between 2005 and 2009. The alleged agreements would violate state and federal antitrust laws. Adobe Systems and Intel are also named as defendants.
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