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• October 17, 2014 17 Oct'14

  Get current or lose your Oracle DBA certification, Oracle says

  Oracle has changed its policy on DBA certifications, retiring older ones and requiring database administrators to get current on Oracle Database versions or lose their active status.

• October 09, 2014 09 Oct'14

  What multi-tenancy in Oracle Database as a Service means for users

  Industry analyst Holger Mueller contrasts the multi-tenancy in Oracle Database as a Service with traditional SaaS, in a video from the Oracle OpenWorld 2014 conference.

• September 29, 2014 29 Sep'14

  Thumbs up to Oracle's cloud database service, down to cloud washing

  Oracle founder and CTO Larry Ellison's cloud-focused opening keynote speech at the vendor's Oracle OpenWorld 2014 conference was a mix of the substantial and the specious.

• September 29, 2014 29 Sep'14

  Oracle pushes its database platform further into the cloud

  At Oracle OpenWorld 2014, CTO Larry Ellison announced that users will be able use a new cloud database service to send their Oracle Database instances to the cloud with "the push of a button."

• September 23, 2014 23 Sep'14

  Oracle OpenWorld 2014: News from the conference

  Oracle OpenWorld 2014 brings Oracle professionals together for a four-day event in San Francisco to learn about this year's hot topics on Oracle technologies.

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• September 18, 2014 18 Sep'14

  Ellison steps aside as Oracle CEO, becomes CTO and chairman

  Oracle said founder Larry Ellison is giving up his CEO position but will continue to oversee product development as CTO, while also becoming the company's executive chairman.

• September 18, 2014 18 Sep'14

  Oracle acquires media manager Front Porch Digital

  Oracle acquired media management and storage company Front Porch Digital, while Oregon prepares for its legal battle with Oracle and sets its budget at $2 million.

• August 29, 2014 29 Aug'14

  U.S. District Court rules 'massive theft' of Oracle property

  The U.S. District Court in Las Vegas ruled that Oracle's claims of 'massive theft' of property by Rimini Street are true. Rimini Street customers are just waiting for this to blow over.

• August 25, 2014 25 Aug'14

  SPARC M7 chip takes it up a notch with 32 cores

  Oracle released the SPARC M7 chip at the Hot Chips 26 conference in Cupertino, CA. It promises a major boost in performance, new features and 32 cores -- allowing you to make a really big machine and consolidate.

• August 07, 2014 07 Aug'14

  Oracle releases Solaris 11.2, Database 12c R 12.1.0.2

  In a round-up of recent Oracle news events, Oracle released Oracle Database 12c Release 12.0.1.2, along with Oracle Solaris 11.2 and Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.2. Oracle also acquired TAO Technologies.

• July 28, 2014 28 Jul'14

  Oracle joins OpenDaylight SDN project, will integrate Solaris

  OpenDaylight is a project to approach software-defined networking from an open source perspective, and now Oracle is a part of it.

• July 25, 2014 25 Jul'14

  Oracle releases CPU, Oracle Linux 7, SRM for LinkedIn

  Oracle releases the July Critical Patch Update. Oracle SRM extends to LinkedIn. Oracle Linux 7 now available.

• July 21, 2014 21 Jul'14

  A guide to Oracle Mobile Suite and other new releases

  Oracle Mobile Suite, VM 3.3, Oracle Big Data SQL and Exadata X4-8 are among the exciting new releases Oracle has to offer.

• June 30, 2014 30 Jun'14

  Q4 drops Oracle stock, but cloud may be silver lining

  In recent Oracle news, the Q4 report drops Oracle stock, but Ellison more focused on cloud gains. Oracle released new Virtual Compute Appliance.

• June 23, 2014 23 Jun'14

  Data in Micros' point-of-sale systems may be alluring to Oracle

  Micros Systems sells POS software to major retailers, restaurants and hotels. Why is Oracle interested in that? Maybe, it's about the data.