InfoWorld – When Oracle completed its acquisition of Sun Microsystems a few weeks ago, one of the pledges the company made pertaining to its newly acquired Sun technologies was to make the Java Community Process — the community-wide process for amending official Java specifications — more participatory.
PC World – One ex-Sun Microsystems employee who will not be cashing an Oracle paycheck is XML co-inventor Tim Bray, who has opted instead to work for the Google.
InfoWorld – Is the middleware market becoming a duopoly, with users locked in to either Oracle or IBM?
Reuters – Oracle Corp Chief Executive Larry Ellison said on Saturday he expected Sun Microsystems, the unprofitable hardware maker that he bought last month for $7.5 billion, to be making a profit soon.
PC World – Oracle has its heart set on dominating the social services software market, in which its rival SAP has historically had a strong hand.