Oracle announced on Wednesday the enhancement and preview release of an upgraded Oracle Call Interface (OCI8) driver for PHP.
Victoria's rural ambulance service has outlined plans to install at least 25 new mid-range servers in locations throughout the state, with the project to commence as early as January next year.
Larry Ellison said engineering rather than deal-making will be Oracle's top priority over the next two years as the company prepares for an increasingly competitive business applications market.
B2B has moved beyond a niche to a necessity, and industry giants are moving in to take over. Big players such as IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and Sun Microsystems have started to subsume the technology and the market, usurping the handful of struggling vendors that launched the industry.
Woolworths is updating its supply chain to enable it to better handle the daily transaction volumes of 15 million stock keeping items across the country.
Project Fusion will provide a common basis for all Oracle applications and compete head-to-head with the German rival's NetWeaver middleware.
It was around nine years since strong-armed government departments began to realise willy-nilly outsourcing wasn't, perhaps, the best idea. However, with contracts signed and staff already migrated, there was little to do but ride out the storm. In this special report, we look at the Victoria Police and the South West Alliance of Rural Hospitals' approach to managed services.
Although many software makers promote responsible disclosure, it isn't universally backed by the security community. Critics say it could make security companies lazy in patching. Full disclosure of flaws is preferred.
The open-source movement has already rewritten the rules for how software is licensed and used. Now the computer services market is changing to keep up.
Many small and midsize companies harbour some level of trepidation regarding how dependent they have become on Microsoft software, according to a US survey.
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