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  Oracle NetBeans 7.2 supports the latest PHP, C++

  The newest version of the Oracle NetBeans IDE (integrated developer environment) will come with support for the latest versions of PHP and C++.

  By Joab Jackson | 25 May, 2012 18:34

  Tags: Development tools, application development, software, oracle

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  Ellison, Phillips, McDermott to take stand in Oracle-SAP retrial

  During the upcoming retrial of Oracle's corporate-theft lawsuit against SAP, the companies plan to call a star-studded array of tech executives as witnesses including CEO Larry Ellison, former Oracle co-president and current Infor CEO Charles Phillips and SAP co-CEO Bill McDermott, according to court documents filed Thursday.

  By Chris Kanaracus | 24 May, 2012 16:49

  Tags: Leo Apotheker, Charles Phillips, larry ellison, Application services, services, Civil lawsuits, intellectual property, legal, personnel, business issues, applications, software, hewlett-packard, TomorrowNow, oracle, sap

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  Most jurors sided with Google on APIs and 'fair use'

  Most of the jurors in the Oracle v Google trial thought Google's use of 37 Java APIs in Android should be allowed under the doctrine of fair use, one of the jurors revealed Wednesday after the trial had ended.

  By James Niccolai | 23 May, 2012 23:34

  Tags: Android OS, copyright, Civil lawsuits, patent, intellectual property, legal, Google, oracle

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  Google's Android did not infringe Oracle patents, jury finds

  Google's Android operating system does not infringe Oracle's Java patents, a jury in San Francisco found Wednesday in a setback for Oracle.

  By James Niccolai | 23 May, 2012 20:08

  Tags: Android OS, patent, intellectual property, legal, Google, oracle

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  Google's Android did not infringe Oracle patents, jury finds

  Google's Android operating system does not infringe Oracle's Java patents, a jury in San Francisco found Wednesday in a setback for Oracle.

  By James Niccolai | 23 May, 2012 18:29

  Tags: Android OS, patent, intellectual property, legal, Google, oracle

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  Oracle buys social relationship management company Vitrue

  Taking a step into the social media marketing industry, Oracle is purchasing Vitrue, the two companies announced Wednesday.

  By Joab Jackson | 23 May, 2012 15:20

  Tags: mergers and acquisitions, business issues, social media, Internet-based applications and services, internet, Vitrue, oracle

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  Microsoft-backed groups praise EU's antitrust ultimatum to Google

  A pair of Microsoft-backed industry groups applauded the ultimatum European Union antitrust regulators issued to rival Google over alleged anti-competitive practices.

  By Gregg Keizer | 22 May, 2012 20:50

  Tags: search engines, oracle, Microsoft, IT Governance and Compliance, Internet Search, internet, Intel, Government/Industries, government, Google, ebay

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  Judge scolds lawyers in Oracle v Google

  The judge presiding over a patent trial pitting Oracle against Google has scolded rival lawyers as deliberating jurors grappled with subtleties of references in computer software code.

  By AAP | 22 May, 2012 09:09

  Tags: US District Court, oracle, Judge William Alsup, Google, court case, business

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  BYOD is driving IT 'crazy': Gartner

  IT managers grappling with bring-your-own-device policies can expect to see an explosion in the number of smartphones and tablets used by employees in the next few years.

  By Matt Hamblen | 22 May, 2012 01:01

  Tags: smartphones, sap, oracle, Mobile and Wireless, hardware systems, hardware, Gartner, consumer electronics

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  Top 7 dilemmas facing today's developers

  Your boss wants it yesterday, but it better be good when judged by the standards of tomorrow. Your customers want every feature they can imagine, but don't you dare confuse them by giving them all the buttons they want. Your fellow programmers want your code documented, but they just respond "tl;dr" to anything you write.

  By Peter Wayner | 21 May, 2012 23:05

  Tags: oracle, it management

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  For Univ. of Kentucky, SAP's HANA is 'disruptive'

  The University of Kentucky says it has reshaped its business intelligence (BI) capability as a result of adopting SAP's in-memory system, HANA. Vince Kellen, the university CIO, calls it a "disruptive technology," and for this institution at least, that appears true.

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 18 May, 2012 07:55

  Tags: software, sap, oracle, Desktop Apps, BI and Analytics, applications

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  SAP puts its HANA in-memory database in the spotlight

  SAP seems to be betting its future on its HANA in-memory database, spotlighting the technology once again at the Sapphire conference in Orlando Wednesday, announcing a slew of new applications, partnerships and functional enhancements for the system.

  By Chris Kanaracus | 17 May, 2012 00:23

  Tags: sybase, software, sapphire, sap, oracle, Internet-based applications and services, internet, enterprise resource planning, databases, cloudera, cloud computing, business intelligence, applications

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  What's at stake in Oracle v. Google?

  The stakes in Oracle's lawsuit against Google over Android are high for developers, with the recent finding by a jury that Google infringed Oracle's Java copyrights by, among other things, implementing Java's application programming interfaces (APIs] for Android.

  By Rohan Pearce | 11 May, 2012 16:16

  Tags: patents, oracle, lawsuits, Google Android, Google, copyright

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  Options grow for third-party SAP application support

  The nascent market for third-party SAP application support gained another player on Thursday, with Spinnaker Support announcing a service that will place it in competition with the likes of Rimini Street.

  By Chris Kanaracus | 11 May, 2012 05:40

  Tags: Spinnaker Management, software, services, sap, Rimini Street, oracle, legal, enterprise resource planning, Civil lawsuits, Application services, applications

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  Oracle tweaks storage options for virtual desktop infrastructure

  Oracle's virtual desktop infrastructure is no longer reliant solely on the company's own storage infrastructure, giving customers a range of new options that won't tie customers into one vendor.

  By Tim Greene | 11 May, 2012 04:31

  Tags: virtual desktop infrastructure, VDI, software, oracle, network storage, hardware systems, Google, Data Center, Configuration / maintenance