Oracle announced on Wednesday the enhancement and preview release of an upgraded Oracle Call Interface (OCI8) driver for PHP.
Outspoken chief executive officer Larry Ellison believes the company needs its own operating system to match the competition, and has admitted he considered buying Suse Linux owner, Novell.
Linux adoptions are to grow in the next three to five years at nearly triple the rate of Windows, according to Oracle.
Oracle said on Tuesday that it has acquired open-source database company Sleepycat Software for an undisclosed sum.
A wave of consolidation is sweeping the IT industry, and many open source business applications will be left behind when customers pare down their suppliers, an SAP executive predicted on Wednesday.
MySQL chief Marten Mickos discusses software patents, Oracle, making money with open source and why his company is the Ikea of the database world.
Why did national radio broadcaster Austereo Group and consultancy Coffey International drop Linux for Windows? And why did soon-to-be-listed Wotif.com abandon Microsoft technologies for Red Hat and Oracle?
In Mannheim, a preference for "open" standards -- not cost -- is driving the German city's shift to Linux.
Linux Australia's president believes the organisation is stuck in no man's land, and has questioned its survival. Will someone tell him he's sitting on a pot of gold?
Sun Microsystems has raised the possibility that it might offer customers its own database, a move that could trigger displeasure at Oracle but curry favor with open-source advocates.
These days, the question is not whether you can use Linux, but where you can best use it. Is there more to Linux than Apache and file and print serving? ZDNet Australia investigates.
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