NetSuite shops at Oracle for technology to build out platform
NetSuite is taking full advantage of Oracle technology to build out the platform. The goal still seems to be to make NetSuite the most comprehensive platform. NetSuite is using Oracle technology to expand with more business applications and support more diverse business processes.
During SuiteWo... Read more
Nvidia AI training now available on Oracle OCI
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) users can now train generative AI models with Nvidia hardware. They can use the Nvidia DGX Cloud AI supercomputing platform and Nvidia AI Enterprise.
DGX Cloud and AI Enterprise training functionality are now available in the Oracle Cloud Marketplace, both tech ... Read more
NetSuite SuiteWorld 2023 keynote; do more with less
Today NetSuite kicks off its annual customer event, SuiteWorld 2023, again in Las Vegas. NetSuite is now 25 years old, and founder and now executive vice president of Oracle NetSuite, Evan Goldberg, kicks off the keynote. Based on the pre-briefings, SuiteWorld 2023 is primarily about doing more wit... Read more
Java version 21 from Oracle gets performance improvements
Oracle recently released the latest version of its Java programming language and development platform, Java. The latest Java SDK 21 version has added many stability and performance enhancements.
Java SDK 21 features thousands of performance, stability and security improvements, among others, acc... Read more
Microsoft and Oracle extend partnership with Oracle Database@Azure
Microsoft and Oracle expand collaboration and make Oracle hardware and software available in Azure datacenters.
Larry Ellison, the founder of Oracle, said he was at Microsoft's Redmond, Washington, facility today for the first time in his life. He was there visiting Satya Nadella, Microsoft's CE... Read more
SUSE partners with Oracle and Rocky Linux for freely available EL source code
SUSE partnered with Oracle and CIQ, the party behind Rocky Linux, to encourage developers to create a RHEL-compatible distribution. The partnership supports this by offering the Linux source code for free and open.
SUSE, Oracle and CIQ together form OpenELA, an abbreviation for Open Enterprise ... Read more
Oracle offers flexibility for on-prem in Compute Cloud@Customer
Oracle is launching a way to offer its OCI services anywhere with Compute Cloud@Customer. The scalable package offers hardware that can be installed within an organization's server farm. Customers can "develop, deploy, secure and manage" workloads the same way they would in a cloud service.
In d... Read more
Gartner: Java licenses will be up to five times more expensive
Research firm Gartner estimates that Oracle's new licenses for Java could cost companies two to five times as much as they did before.
The Register reports that Oracle introduced new licensing terms for the use of Java earlier this year. The introduced per-employee/month Java SE Universal Subsc... Read more
Oracle: IBM is trying to kill off its Linux competition
In a blog post, Oracle has taken aim at IBM, which owns Red Hat. It was recently announced that Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) would not provide public source code from June 21. This is causing significant problems for "downstream" variants based on RHEL, including Oracle Linux. "Fewer competitors... Read more
ARM gets boost in data centers thanks to Oracle database
Oracle has certified its own Database 19c Enterprise Edition for ARM architecture. At least, the database can now be run specifically on Ampere processors. This makes the alternative to the ubiquitous Intel Xeons in data centres a bit more attractive.
In the press release, Oracle states that Dat... Read more