Showing posts with label Oracle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oracle. Show all posts
Profit jump for Oracle
Oracle has made in the past quarter of a leap in profits. The yield increased loud message in the end of November completed second fiscal quarter, year over year by 18 percent to 2.58 billion dollars (1.95 billion euros). The sales increased 3 percent to $ 9.09 billion, as the company after U.S. market closing announced on Tuesday. The figures were largely on the expectations of the analysts.
Business with new software licenses and cloud subscriptions - a key indicator for future development - increased by 17 percent to 2.4 billion dollars. Overall, the software sector increased sales by 10 percent to $ 6.65 billion.
Oracle had stuck in the past months in acquisitions in the cloud computing. Among others bought Oracle CEO Larry Ellison focused company like Taleo and RightNow Technologies.
On hardware such as servers and storage, Oracle has opposed currently little joy. Sales of equipment fell by 23 percent to $ 734 million and well below analysts' expectations. In related services revenue decline was a decline of 6 percent to $ 587 million from less steep.
Oracle had acquired with the 2010 server specialist Sun Microsystems. Ellison defended again after the quarterly results the Sun takeover: It was one of the most farsighted and profitable acquisitions that Oracle had brought a technological advantage.
VirtualBox 4.2 supports Windows 8 and Mountain Lion
Oracle has released version 4.2 of its free desktop Virtualisierers VirtualBox. VirtualBox 4.2 supports Windows 8, Mac OS X 10.8 "Lion Mountain" and Oracle Linux 6.3 as host and guest. With the new version it is possible to limit the network bandwidth, and virtual machines VMs integrate into VLANs. Virtual machines can now group, which improves visibility in many VMs.
VirtualBox is available as open source under GPL 2 source code along with packages for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Solaris available for download. The only free for personal use "Extension Pack" upgrade for the support for USB 2.0 and access to virtual machines via RDP.
Oracle responds with emergency update to Java vulnerability
Oracle has just published without comment the Java version 7 Update 7, the fix is apparently a highly critical vulnerability, which is already being actively exploited to attack. The corresponding security alert on the manufacturing side was empty on Thursday evening, a first test by heise Security, however, showed that the exploit in its known form after the update is actually blocked. Also, a modified version of our exploit was stopped in time.
Those who have Java installed on their system should install the new version of Java immediately. The security issue exists in Java 6 Update 7 through in conjunction with all supported operating systems and browsers. By the vulnerability, an attacker can take control of the computer and install some malicious code when ansurft a malicious web site.
Oracle has the above mentioned security alert now filled with content. This confirms our observation, after the above-described security issue has been resolved. Overall, the company has entered in this context four vulnerabilities. Three of the gaps have the highest severity of 10.0.
Oracle thanks among other things at the security expert Adam Gowdiak for the detection of gaps and thus indirectly confirmed his statement that the company is already informed about the vulnerability since April. The fourth vulnerability is also Java 6, but only has a severity of 0.0, because it is not in itself exploitable. They will be closed in version 6 branch with the update 35th
Also based on the OpenJDK Java runtime environment IcedTea there was an update due to the vulnerability. The fixed version is 2.3.1.
Developers criticize Oracle's handling of MySQL
In recent days, some developers complained from the MySQL community about Oracle's handling of the free relational database. So criticized the MariaDB developers Sergei Golubchik missing test cases for the recent released version 5.5.27.
The release notes did lead to numerous bug fixes in the directory mysql-test/suite would find, however, no tests that could be explored, the bugs. Indeed there are, for example, no tests for the bugs fixed in version 5.5.27 error 61579 and 60926 found. Golubchik points out that now in one of the scripts directory internal / mysql-test shows up as a test repository, it is not included in the source code. His ten days ago asked the internal MySQL mailing list to question whether this is a new procedure or an oversight, Oracle has not yet been answered.
"[...] In MySQL AB and later at Sun had any correction must always be accompanied by a test case for the bug. Since the tests [...] always ran on multiple platforms, we were reasonably certain that once fixed bugs was removed forever, "Golubchik justified the need for testing. He could not imagine that Oracle did not comply with this rule. Consequently, it would have to go with the changes to something else.
Other developers complain that a bug was originally publicly available now as "private" declared without Oracle justifying the decision. This error may have even cause the server to crash and had been resolved. However, the release notes contained no evidence.
Stewart Smith, at Percona Director responsible for the development has, in his blog points out that the funds available in Launchpad MySQL BZR trees from the published sources from Oracle now lagging behind. Thus, there exists there instead of the younger version 5.1.65 or 5.1.63, and the BZR version of the 5.6 development branch is not up to date: "5.6.6-m9 was published, but the BCR-Tree is still somewhere on MySQL 5.6.5 ".
Mark Callaghan summarizes the phenomena under the heading "(less) open source" together: "MySQL is improving much more difficult, if tests are missing and BZR will no longer be updated My teams at Google and Facebook have MySQL done much better I wish.. we would not have to deal with such problems that slow us down unnecessarily. " Callaghan was instrumental in accelerating the InnoDB plug-ins for MySQL and has developed at Google performance improvements for MySQL. He is now the MySQL team at Facebook.
Slush fund: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sued Oracle
Oracle lost for misconduct by employees in India. In the opinion of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that the equivalent of about 2.2 million U.S. dollars was lopped off from jobs and headed into slush funds. There had been a risk that "these funds will be used for illegal purposes, such as bribery or embezzlement," said the SEC.
The guards accused Oracle that he company's internal controls were too lax. The events occurred accordingly in the years 2005 to 2007. In order to establish the cause of the world, the software giant has now agreed to pay $ 2 million. Oracle denied the allegations here, nor the company realized it at - this is a common practice of comparing the United States.
Oracle has introduced controls, which were among the best in the industry, said a company spokeswoman. The company has revealed itself in 2007, the payments, it said in a written statement. Then Oracle has reported the events to the state authorities and is cooperating with the SEC in their investigations. "The employees involved were fired."
U.S. authorities pursuing corruption abroad. The legal basis of the "Foreign Corrupt Practices Act" is (FCPA). The long arms of the U.S. Department of Justice got to feel even Daimler and Siemens, who were asked for questionable transactions in different countries to pay. Two years ago, Daimler paid $ 185 million, Siemens $ 800 million four years ago with the SEC and the U.S. Department of Justice.
Oracle and Google should rename paid bloggers and journalists
U.S. Federal Judge William Alsup, who has to decide in the patent dispute between Oracle and Google, requires the parties involved for information on what journalists, bloggers, commentators and other writers of them were paid, who have reported on the proceedings. You want the court to 17 Provide information about august, according to an arrangement. The proceedings were not completed, the information about which reports have been influenced by possible financial ties could be used in a possible appeal, Alsup wrote.Oracle said CNet to the magazine, to have disclosed all his financial relations in this case always. Now Google is your turn to do it right. Oracle understand Alsups arrangement so that indirect payments are to be included. Florian Mueller, a blogger is already known, which is on Oracle's payroll and who reported on the case. The operator of the Blogs "FOSS patent" wrote in April that he was "recently" advisor to the software company. Mueller insisted that time, he was an independent analyst and blogger, and will continue to disseminate his views. He often say things with which his client did not match.Oracle had sued Google two years ago because of alleged violations of patents and copyrights. It was about the use of Java in the development of the system initiated by Google Android smartphone. In June, the two parties have agreed that Oracle temporarily discontinues range check to liquidated damages in connection with the neunzeiligen Java routine and seven de-compiled Java files. The question of whether Google infringed copyright in a possible Oracle-37 Java APIs, to be decided again in an appeal hearing. Alsup was the beginning of June denied any such breach of copyright.
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