Larry Ellison yesterday announced that he would be stepping down from his position as CEO of Oracle. Instead of CEO, Ellison will now be Oracle’s CTO, and Safra Catz and Mark Hurd will be sharing the CEO duties. Is this a big deal? Not really. In terms of the day-to-day running of Oracle, I cannot … continue reading
It is the end of an era for Oracle as Larry Ellison has decided to step down as the company’s CEO. He founded Oracle in 1977 and since then, he has been its only CEO ever. Taking his place as CEO will be both Safra Catz and Mark Hurd. Catz will handle all manufacturing, financial … continue reading
On March 6, 2001, a specification proposal was born within the JCP. It was called JSR 107: Java Temporary Caching API (JCache for short) and it seemed doomed to languish within the JCP longer than any other specification proposal for the language. But almost exactly 13 years later, in March of this year, the specification … continue reading
The Java language is moving forward from Java 8, and its future now lies in an experimental OpenJDK incubator called Project Valhalla. Oracle has been planning and proposing enhancements to Java and OpenJDK 9 for months, but Valhalla marks the first step toward long-term development. Oracle Java language architect Brian Goetz announced the language-VM co-development … continue reading
Oracle has announced a new tool called Oracle Big Data SQL, designed to break down data silos of separate platforms by integrating a single SQL query across multiple databases, including Hadoop, NoSQL and the Oracle Database. The tool runs on the Oracle Big Data Appliance platform, which integrates Cloudera’s Hadoop distribution. Big Data SQL leverages … continue reading
Cross-platform MAF framework aims to simplify mobile app development across devices … continue reading
Oracle vs. Google lawsuit results in finding that copying API behaviors is a breach of copyright law … continue reading
In-memory option speeds up queries, analytics and OLTP; will be available in July … continue reading
Google takes a big blow as a superior court reverses the findings of a lower one … continue reading
Brian Goetz, John Rose and Guy Steele publicize official thesis for value types in the JVM … continue reading
The release provides improved support for Maven, Java EE, PHP and C/C++, as well as new HTML5 tools … continue reading
Typesafe surveyed more than 2,800 developers around the world to get their views about the upcoming Java release … continue reading
