Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff just tweeted that his keynote has been cancelled by Oracle. He wrote: "I don't know why....your guess is valued. Just cancelled. That's all we know." In lieu of his keynote, he's invited...»

Last month Google Plus opened its API to the public, but with a fairly limited set of features, which have slowly been expanded. Today the company added a few new features, most notably search. The API...»

Yesterday Oracle announced its Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c, which adds cloud management features to Enterprise Manager. Today Force10, which Dell acquired this year, announced Dell Force10 Open Automation Plug-in for Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c, which...»

The Apple.com Web site went down today, following the keynote by new CEO Tim Cook. The site could not be reached for about 20 minutes. It went back up around 12:20. The question - what...»

Today all eyes are on Apple, which is expected to announce the next iPhone, and Oracle, which continues its OpenWorld event. Apple has a tendency to get us excited about the future and what's possible. But that future is...»

This morning Oracle officially announced Oracle NoSQL, a product our editor Alex Williams broke the news about last week.  It turns out that Oracle NoSQL will be a separate product from Oracle Exalytics, the business analytics appliance CEO...»

Apple is looking for a Hadoop administrator to help "redefine" adverting on mobile devices. TripAdvisor needs a software engineer to build out its bigger than 25 terabyte database. Nokia seeks an engineer to...»

It’s a question that all new software vendors face: Should we deliver a horizontal, customizable platform that appeals to multiple industries or specialize in a single vertical with a highly-specialized software suite and do it...»

Larry Ellison (in his worst keynote ever?) announced Exalytics today, an appliance for in-memory analytics. As I reported on Friday, the hardware/software integration is the next permutation of Exalogic, what Ellison last year called a...»

Pantheon's new hosted Drupal service opened to the public today, with prices starting at $100 a month. Pantheon is a startup co-founded by CEO Zack Rosen, a well known Drupal contributor (and a nephew of noted...»