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• Problems hit new Oracle support site again

  Problems once again wracked Oracle's new My Oracle Support portal this week, with some users reporting difficulties accessing the site.

• Sun CEO Schwartz tweets poetic lament on last day

  Jonathan Schwartz announced his resignation as CEO of Sun Microsystems in a message sent via Twitter early Thursday.

• Aussie Oracle employee wins award for doctoral work

  A University of Sydney alumnus and Oracle employee has been awarded a prize for his research into database management.

• Oracle shutting off Sun project-hosting site

  In the wake of its merger with Sun Microsystems, Oracle is discontinuing access to Project Kenai, which was developed by Sun as an open source project-hosting site.

• Setback for SAP in Oracle suit

  Oracle has won a battle regarding the way damages can be calculated in its intellectual property lawsuit against SAP, according to a ruling filed Jan. 28 in US District Court for the Northern District of California.

• Oracle-Sun Merger Could Benefit Small Business

  Small business has reason the cheer Oracle's acquisition of Sun, now that it appears OpenOffice.org and MySQL look to do well--perhaps better--under new ownership.

• Oracle seeks fast profit from Sun

  Oracle on Wednesday tried to answer the question that has vexed much of the technology industry since it announce its acquisition of Sun Microsystems last April: How will Oracle make the ailing systems and software vendor a profitable part of its business?

• Oracle brings Solaris, Sparc into virtualization portfolio

  Oracle plans to broaden its range of virtualization offerings, thanks to a number of applications obtained in the Sun Microsystems acquisition, said Oracle chief architect Edward Screven.

• Sun's Scott McNealy: 'Thanks for a great 28 years'

  Sun founder Scott McNealy yesterday holstered the snark and poured his heart out in a farewell letter to company employees and stakeholders.

• Oracle hails Java but kills Sun Cloud

  Oracle's plans for Java and the proposed Sun Cloud public computing platform became clearer Wednesday, with Oracle executives giving another big thumbs-up to Java but a thumbs-down to Sun Cloud.

• Oracle will boost MySQL, release Cloud Office suite

  Oracle Corp. today promised to aggressively push its newly acquired MySQL open-source database, rather than kill it.

• Oracle's ambitious plans for integrating Sun's technology

  Oracle has presented an overview of its ambitions for its newly acquired Sun products, focusing on integrated systems offering everything from the application to the database, servers and storage.

• Oracle to scale back Sun server line, make other changes

  Oracle will pare back Sun Microsystems' server lines and move to a build-to-order model to cut costs and get the hardware company back to profitability, Oracle executives said on Wednesday.

• With emotion, Sun's long goodbye nears the finish

  James Gosling, the father of the Java programming language, posted the image of a tombstone on his blog last week, an R.I.P., for Sun Microsystems. Before long. more than 800 employees, outside developers and others had posted comments.

• Oracle sues Rimini Street for intellectual property theft

  Oracle has filed a lawsuit against third-party maintenance provider Rimini Street and its CEO Seth Ravin, alleging the parties have been engaged in "massive theft of Oracle's software and related support materials through an illegal business model," according to documents filed Monday in U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada.