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SAP said Wednesday it contacted Oracle and its CEO, Larry Ellison, in recent months over concerns about the future of the Java programming language and competition in the database market, not to offer help facilitating Oracle's purchase of Sun Microsystems, which is being held up by a European antitrust review.

In a flat world whose economy is dependent on global relationships, IT has an essential enabling role to power the global business network.

Filed under: Deals , Microsoft , General Electric , International Business Machines , Sun Microsystems , Oracle Corp , Honeywell Intl It's not the first time this happened, and likely not the last.

Google software luminaries such as Unix co-creator Ken Thompson believe that they can help boost both computing power and programmers' abilities with an experimental programming language project called Go .

Comment on this weblog Agree, but... :) 2009-11-10 13:03:12 Kristian Rink Business Card [Reply] Generally, "+1" on this as it seems pretty much "to the point" in my opinion.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced the availability of Sun Ray Software 5, which brings remarkable enhancements to the virtual desktop experience and helps to increase data center efficiency.

RIM Announces BlackBerry Application Platform Enhancements Posted: 10-Nov-2009 [Source: RIM] [RIM announced enhancements to their developer platform including: OpenGL ES, Eclipse GUI Builder plugin, and Theme Studio.] San Francisco, CA - 2009 BlackBerry Developer Conference -- Research In Motion today announced enhancements to the BlackBerry ...

The European Commission today issued a so-called Statement of Objections over Oracle's proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems .

Microsoft has bought the Teamprise assets from SourceGear LLC for an undisclosed amount, company officials announced on November 9. Teamprise allows developers using the Eclipse integrated development environment running on operating systems including Unix, Linux and Mac OS X to build applications with Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation ...

Since you are now reading this blog post, I bet you are a security guru who knows that IAIK is the primary cryptographic provider used in SAP NetWeaver Java.

Submitted by Oleg Mikheev on Sun, 11/08/2009 - 07:57. J2EE Web security is based on the separation of content into two web contexts - protected and public.

Sun Microsystems Inc. shares rose Friday evening following the company's report of a narrower quarterly loss, while RadioShack Corp.

A new Update 17 version for JRE and JDK closes some major risks, including "arbitrary code execution," according to US-CERT. Sun's new software versions, released yesterday, also address privilege escalation, denial of service, and information disclosure vulnerabilities, according to US-CERT's post .

Sun Microsystems has issued an update to its Java software that fixes at least one security vulnerability.

A US company is offering digital downloads of the Beatles' music, the first in the world, putting it in the crosshairs of a lawsuit by EMI The Beatles songs are available for digital download, apparently legitimately.

From the ' Still Owned by Sun ' files: If you're like 80 percent of all web users, chances are that you're running Java.

The Apache Software Foundation for open source projects is readying an upgrade to its Tomcat Java servlet container, with improvements eyed in areas such as scalability and security, Apache personnel said on Wednesday afternoon.

Broadband Market Still Expanding [November 2, 2009] Global economic slowdown isn't slowing down the move to broadband.

Sun Microsystems and Research In Motion have issued critical bug fixes for security issues with their products.

With the deal's approval still pending, Oracle offers more details on what it plans to do if it can close on its purchase of Sun Microsystems.