Oracle intends to release a free version of its database, a reaction to the growing competitive pressure from low-end open-source databases. The database heavyweight on Tuesday is expected to announce ...

Oracle has kept its lead as the No. 1 database software maker, but rival Microsoft is gaining ground in the highly competitive market, a new study shows. Oracle widened its lead to 33.8 percent of the ...

Fresh off two wins on Sunday afternoon, which kept Oracle TEAM USA in the thick of the America’s Cup sailing race, Larry Ellison kicked off Oracle OpenWorld on Sunday evening with his traditional ...

Customers can now use Oracle Database@AWS in AWS Regions in Northern Virginia and Oregon, with planned expansion to 20 more Enterprises including Fidelity Investments, Nationwide, and SAS are adopting ...

Oracle's ORCL strategic expansion of its cloud partnership with Amazon AMZN-owned Amazon Web Services (“AWS”) appears ...

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The cloud has gotten pretty complicated—and crowded. There are more new “as a service” offerings popping up lately than reality TV shows. Yet, one of those offerings in particular has a great shot at ...

Oracle is hoping that new security, testing, and management features offered in Oracle Database 11g will lead users to migrate to the major release of the vendor’s database sooner rather than later. [ ...

Oracle founder and CTO Larry Ellison said Oracle's new cloud database has nearly 1,000 paying customers. The company also said there are nearly 4,000 trials of it going on at other companies. Ellison ...