Oracle has been subsuming operating system functions like memory and storage management for years; subsuming the whole operating system was just the next logical step.

Currently, 12-month operating income is $10.5 billion; by 2026, operating income of $29 billion is expected. Operating income is expected to grow strongly, averaging 29% per year.

BEA Systems, an Oracle competitor that sells Java server software that runs on Linux and other operating systems, is an instructive example.

Oracle announced the general availability of a completely autonomous operating system at Oracle Code One and Oracle OpenWorld, which kicked off this morning in San Francisco. Both events are ...

Enterprise software giant Oracle is acquiring Nimbula, private cloud infrastructure management technology provider. Nimbula solutions are designed to assist users in managing their cloud ...

Should Oracle succeed in this venture, it will be one more step toward marginalizing the operating system. Eyes shifted immediately to Red Hat for reactionand its stock was socked 24 percent as of ...

In a released statement, Oracle president Charles Phillips, stated, 'Oracle Solaris is the industry's number one UNIX operating system, and is in demand across multiple x86 platforms ...

The ongoing legal saga known as the Oracle-Google copyright battle took a huge leap Wednesday when Oracle claimed the last six Android operating systems are "infringing Oracle's copyrights in the ...

The renowned programmer Linus Torvalds has warned users of Linux, the popular open source operating system he built, not to use an Oracle file system because of possible legal actions, Phoronix's ...