By Barbara Darrow & Elizabeth Montalbano – At JavaOne a bevy of vendors including Sun and IBM will push a new standard for developing portals. The Java Specification Request (JSR) 168 standard will be supported in new toolkits from Sun and Oracle debuting next week, said a source familiar wit

By Alorie Gilbert – Oracle is making a more concerted effort to sell hosting services for its line of e-business applications, database and application-server software, in hopes of boosting the company’s flagging sales, the company told securities analysts in New York on Thursday.

By James Middleton – Oracle was left red-faced last week when security watchdog Cert released an advisory pinpointing no less than 37 security problems in Oracle’s “unbreakable” database.The long list of vulnerabilities comes just over a month after the company was forced to release patches

By Alorie Gilbert – A pricing disagreement between Oracle and some of its database software customers has IT analyst firm Meta Group urging customers not to pay the database software maker additional licensing fees.

By Timothy Dyck – Some decisions IT professionals need to make are scary, and choosing database software is one of them. The stakes are high. If the sales database goes down, so do the sales reps, who can’t access the leads, and the senior VP of sales, whose daily update of top customer concerns jus

By Thor Olavsrud – The Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center (CERT/CC) Friday warned of nearly 20 vulnerabilities discovered in Oracle servers. Found by David Litchfield of NGSSoftware, the vulnerabilities include buffer overflows, insecure default settings, failures to enforce

By Barbara Darrow – The next release of the Oracle9i database will offer support for clustered file systems for Windows, as well as enhanced Data Guard functionality for safer, more reliable disaster recovery and backup, the company said.

by Bert Scalzo – As with any scientific endeavor, in this article we will attempt to evaluate different tuning techniques by establishing a controlled environment where we can ascertain a baseline, identify all the changeable relevant variables, modify one variable at a time and obtain a reliable me

Enterprise software behemoth Oracle Corp. announced the launch of version 7.6 of Oracle Small Business Suite, its online platform powered by NetLedger designed to help companies manage their business processes.

by Don Beeler – Problem: We need group for e-mail to go to and we do not want to go set up a new group on the e-mail server every time we need to.Solution: 3 Steps.