While most of the fixes for Java, Database, and MySQL are run-of-the-mill, four are rated critical if the targeted user has administrator privileges Oracle issued a gargantuan quarterly patch ...

Oracle's Java plugin for browsers is a notoriously insecure product. Over the past 18 months, the company has released 11 updates, six of them containing critical security fixes. With each update ...

Oracle's Critical Patch Updates keep getting bigger. The database giant addressed a number of remotely exploitable flaws in Java, MySQL, and Oracle Database this quarter Bigger is not necessarily ...

Oracle said the attack complexity for the flaws in Java SE’s 2D subcomponent (CVE 2016-3443, base score of 9.6 under CVSS 3.0), in Java SE and Java SE Embedded’s hotspot subcomponent (CVE-2016 ...

As enterprises reevaluate their Java strategy and migrate away from Oracle Java, many are turning to OpenJDK distributions. Newsletters Games Share a News Tip Featured ...

Oracle Database’s vendor share of more than 40% (including both on-premises and cloud) puts it well ahead of the #2 and #3 databases, Microsoft SQL Server and IBM DB2, according to analyst ...

When Microsoft announced last summer it had reached an agreement to run the Oracle database, WebLogic middleware and Java on Windows Azure, it seemed as though two worlds were colliding. After all ...

The target audience for this whitepaper includes database administrators, enterprise architects, systems administrators, and developers who would like to run their Oracle Database on AWS. To ...

Oracle gets to annoy IBM---and own Java---over a few pennies a share more than Big Blue was willing to pay. Oracle gets to kill MySQL. There's no way Ellison will let that open source database ...

After all, Oracle got its start in the 1970s selling a database product based on the then-new structured query language (SQL). SQL was invented by IBM. And Oracle doesn't seem to have gotten a ...