
Oracle loses JEDI appeal
The force was not strong in this one
A US appeals court rejected Oracle's challenges to the Pentagon's disputed $10 billion cloud-computing contract.

Trump wants his mate Ellison to buy Tik-Tok
Is this what the whole thing was about?
US President Donald Trump has said tech giant Oracle would be "a great company" to take over TikTok's US operations.

Oracle fighting over Tik Tok now
Everyone wants a piece
Oracle has entered the race to acquire TikTok - the popular Chinese-owned short video app that President Donald Trump has vowed to shut down unless it is taken over by a US company by mid-November.

Oracle parks its tanks on Amazon’s lawn
Installs its servers in enterprise customers’ premises
Oracle has announced a package for enterprise customers which it says will give them the full benefits of the company’s public cloud services while retaining all their data on-premise.

Trump backs Ellison in API court case
Everything should belong to my golf buddies and supporters
The Trump administration urged the US Supreme Court to reject an appeal by Alphabet's Google, boosting Oracle's bid to collect more than $8 billion in royalties for Google's use of copyrighted programming code in the Android operating system.

Red Hat and IBM take on Oracle
Tells the supremes that APIs cannot be copyrighted
Red Hat and IBM jointly filed their own amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in the "Google vs. Oracle" case, arguing that APIs cannot be copyrighted.

EFF asks the Supremes to step into API row
Stop in the name of tech
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed an amicus brief with the US Supreme Court in Google v. Oracle, arguing that APIs are not copyrightable.

Torvalds warns against Oracle module
Larry Ellison too litigious
IT’s Mr Sweary, Linus Torvalds has warned engineers against adding a module for the ZFS filesystem that was designed by Sun Microsystems, now Oracle, due to licensing issues.

Oracle man claims he was forced to flog vapourware
When he said no, they fired him
A former Oracle employee filed a lawsuit against the database giant on Tuesday claiming that he was forced out for refusing to lie about the functionality of the company's software.

Oracle sues over sexual discrimination charges
The Department of Labour is the bad guy here
Database outfit Oracle is so hacked off that the Department of Labour is always taking it to task for discriminating against and underpaying women and minorities it is suing the watchdog.