Nearly 2,000 new employees will support customer growth, product innovation, and data center expansion Redwood Shores, Calif.—Oct 8, 2019 Oracle today announced plans to hire nearly 2,000 employees worldwide to work on its growing Oracle Cloud Infrastructure business. The new roles, which include software development, cloud operations, and business operations, will support Oracle’s rapidly expanding […]
Pivotal Software Embraces OpenJDK
Pivotal Software has officially thrown its weight behind OpenJDK, the open source version of the standard edition of Java, by adding support for OpenJDK to the Pivotal Spring Runtime on its Spring framework. At the same time, Pivotal announced it is extending its commercial support for open source Apache Tomcat servers in addition to providing […]
DBmaestro DevOps Platform 7.5 released with PostgreSQL Support – DB2, SQL, Oracle, and PostgreSQL
Manages multi-database environments for DB2, SQL, Oracle, and PostgreSQL BOSTON, MA, October 11th, 2018 – DBmaestro, the pioneer and leading DevOps for database solution provider announced today the launch of DBmaestro DevOps Platform 7.5 which enables CI/CD and release automation for PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL is becoming the preferred database for more and more enterprises and smaller organizations. It is […]
Oracle Adds Low-Code Tool to Autonomous Platform
Oracle this week extended the scope of the cloud services it manages on behalf of customers to include a low-code application development platform based on the company’s Visual Builder development tools. Jeff Price, vice president of product Management at Oracle, said Oracle Autonomous Visual Builder (VB) Cloud makes it possible to employ a tool based […]
Oracle Unveils Autonomous Cloud Service
Oracle today unfurled at an Oracle CloudWorld event what it describes as a completely autonomous cloud service the company will manage primarily on behalf of application developers. The Oracle Autonomous Cloud Platform is a managed service that makes extensive use of machine and deep learning algorithms across instances of Oracle software that can invoked on […]
Oracle on the March Toward Automated CI/CD Services
At its OpenWorld 2017 conference today, Oracle charted a course forward that essentially creates a managed DevOps platform spanning a broad number of application types and styles. The Oracle Application Development Platform is a subset of the Oracle Cloud Platform optimized for application development. Siddhartha Agarwal, vice president of product management and strategy, says the […]
Will MariaDB Soon Replace MySQL?
MariaDB is a database growing in popularity. Its lead developer is Michael “Monty” Widenius, who was part of the team that created MySQL. When MySQL was acquired by Oracle, Widenius and some of the other original MySQL developers decided to launch MariaDB as a fork of MySQL and keep it as open source to mitigate […]






