If proprietary companies like Oracle can buy up open source projects and then take back their open source status, how can an enterprise depend on open source software? It is with the aim of creating ...

Move reveals just how far the software giant is willing to go to adapt to the burgeoning open-source environment. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

Oracle’s quarter-century-long commitment to the Linux community has been consistent and clear. Oracle seeks to make Linux the most effective server operating system, accessible to everyone, ...

Despite the recent pullback in artificial intelligence stocks, the Bank of America thinks "the AI trade may still have room to run into 2026." ...

As we have been discussing already, our software applications are moving, natively, to the cloud. What that really means is that our devices (smartphones, tablets, laptops and desktops) will still ...

Oracle hasn’t won many friends in open source communities since its acquisition of Sun Microsystems and Sun’s array of open source assets, including MySQL, Java, and OpenOffice. Oracle seems bent on ...

Oracle's planned acquisition of Sun not only makes it a hardware giant but also a huge open source player, Ubuntu's founder said. On Monday, Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical and Ubuntu Linux, ...

Observers say that Oracle's acquisition of MySQL will not be damaging to MySQL itself and question the motives of some detractors A number of influential members of the open-source community are ...

Open-source innovation may not be the words evoked by a legacy technology company such as Oracle, a company turning 43 years old next month. But the fact is that — like many companies — Oracle’s paid ...