UK abandons police database cloud move after £35M transformation stalls Home Office finds 80% of code cannot be reused, balks at £26M in extra costs
On-Prem Oracle plans to power its New Mexico mega datacenter with a 2.45GW fuel cell farm No sense in OpenAI stressing over its cloud bills if Oracle can't get the lights on
Databases The spaghettified DBMS chart that shows Oracle's crown is slowly slipping Change is glacial, but the direction is clear
Systems Oracle taps Bloom for 2.8 GW of fuel cells to keep datacenter binge going With grid hookups slow and turbines scarce, on-site power is starting to look less optional
Databases WARNING: Oracle's AI obsession could mean higher prices and worse support Advisers say fewer staff could mean slower answers and tougher renewals
Databases DXC lands Metropolitan Police outsourcing deal that could climb to £1B Supplier will support the current Oracle E-Business Suite and lead migration to a new Oracle Fusion SaaS platform
PaaS + IaaS 'Uncle Larry’s biggest fan' cut by email in early morning Oracle layoff spree WARN filings in two states show 1,000+ layoffs, but wider cuts remain unconfirmed
AI + ML Oracle cuts jobs across sales, engineering, security Big Red declines comment as reports point to layoffs in the thousands
Applications Oracle: AI agents can reason, decide and act - liability question remains Fusion Agentic Applications promise autonomous enterprise decisions. Gartner urges caution
Devops Oracle unveils Project Detroit for faster Java interop with JavaScript and Python Big Red bets on native runtimes over reimplementations to tackle edge cases
Databases West Sussex's Oracle rollout pushed back again as costs balloon 15 times Already five years late, project delayed another six months after price tag swells from £2.6M to £41M
AI + ML Oracle tops up restructuring fund for FY26 by $500M Pot of money grows to $2.1BN for fiscal '26, as Big Red exec says AI helping smaller engineering teams do more
SaaS Oracle says AI coding tools are helping it dodge the SaaSpocalypse Big Red reckons paying for datacenters is easy when you have half a trillion dollars of cloud orders on the books
Databases Oracle moves to assure MySQL community it really does care Big Red waves new features including vector support, while skeptics await concrete timescales
Systems Oracle and OpenAI's Texas Stargate datacenter expansion reportedly on the skids Meta supposedly considering untapped capacity in deal brokered by Nvidia
Databases UK Treasury not sure about ditching Oracle to join £1.7 billion shared services program it is funding It promised £1.15B… but finance ministry yet to show 'formal commitment' to adopt Workday SaaS, watchdog says
PaaS + IaaS Doomscrollers despair after Oracle hiccup knocks TikTok offline in US Big Red's cloud that 'doesn't go down' goes down again
Public Sector Sopra Steria sues UK government over £958M Capita outsourcing award French firm claims DWP failed to identify rival's bid was 'abnormally low' and alleges govt breached procurement rules
Databases Dear Oracle, we need to talk about the future of MySQL Faithful pen open letter proposing independent foundation with or without Big Red's participation
Databases Oracle vows 'new era' for MySQL as users sharpen their forks Commit drought and governance gripes push Big Red to reset
Public Sector Oracle suits up for Air Force Cloud One program with $88M contract Big Red joins AWS on a multi-cloud defense platform
Software Oracle Java licensing worries are percolating through the userbase Survey finds nine in ten customers concerned as pricing changes push many toward open source alternatives
Databases UK council digs deeper into capital assets to keep Oracle project afloat West Sussex plans to triple use of property sales as ERP budget blows past original estimates
Databases Oracle's first general on-prem release of its .ai database iteration draws skeptics Users happy with 19c as experts question AI lock-in
On-Prem US TikTok service restored after cloud 'that doesn't go down' went down Winter storm knocks out Oracle datacenter, despite Larry Ellison's reliability boasts
Off-Prem Oracle expects investors to pump $50 billion into its cloud this year alone Big Red will use debt and equity finance to keep itself in the pink
On-Prem Banker claims Oracle may slash up to 30,000 jobs, sell health unit to pay for AI build-out Cerner, though acquired in 2022, is nothing to multibillion black hole
Databases Birmingham City Council's Oracle ERP fiasco now £144M and still not working Five years after its planned go-live, the system remains incomplete as costs balloon more than sevenfold
PaaS + IaaS Oracle silent over user complaints about OCI London 'wobble' last week But did it falter? Oracle debuts Schrödinger's cloud
SaaS US ownership of TikTok off to a rocky start as outage continues into second day Winter storms bring Oracle datacenter down
AI + ML Oracle AI sailed the world on Royal Navy flagship via cloud-at-the-edge kit Big Red says 'sovereign' platform supports decision-making and operational learning at sea
Databases As Oracle loses interest in MySQL, devs mull future options As Big Red's governance of the popular database comes into question, contributors to MySQL consider wresting control
SaaS Oracle, Michael Dell, named as investors in JV that will run TikTok's US operations Big Red gets to store data, advise on security, and store the 'I'll watch just one more video' algo
Databases ERP isn't dead yet – but most execs are planning the wake 7 out of 10 C-suite cats reckon software category's best days are behind it, but can't agree what's next
Systems Bond, debt bond: Investors shaken, not stirred by Oracle’s borrowing spree sue Big Red Investors upset that company failed to inform them might need to take out even more debt.
On-Prem AI's $3T infrastructure binge continues despite lack of clear profits Investment in datacenters to peak by 2029, place your bets please
Databases Birmingham pauses Oracle relaunch to get staff on board Europe's largest council delays Fusion reimplementation four years after go-live disaster
Databases Bank of England's Oracle cloud migration bill triples as project grinds on Initial £7M estimate proves optimistic after multiple contract uplifts
PaaS + IaaS Oracle's new AI-enhanced support portal leaves users fuming The company that bet the farm on AI said to have made things worse with AI
PaaS + IaaS Oracle isn't done with Ampere yet as A4 instances arrive on OCI boasting 96 cores Big Red said it had sold its stake in its long-time silicon partner last week
The Future of the Datacenter Delays? What delays? Oracle insists its $300B cloud contract with OpenAI is on track And don't sweat the debt either, we've got plenty of capital at our disposal
Databases Oracle raises AI spending estimate, spooks investors But if you assume cloud IOUs will be fulfilled, business is booming
Cyber-crime University of Pennsylvania joins list of victims from Clop's Oracle EBS raid Ivy League school warns more than 1,400 people after attackers siphon data via zero-day
Databases Dorset Council ditching customized SAP for £14M Oracle overhaul Authority follows Birmingham and West Sussex, which both suffered disastrous transitions
AI + ML HSBC spies $207B crater in OpenAI's expansion goals Gap threatens Oracle, Microsoft, and Amazon despite optimistic forecasts of 3 billion ChatGPT users by 2030
Cyber-crime Clop's Oracle EBS rampage reaches Dartmouth College Uni notifies 1,400-plus Maine residents as zero-day fallout continues
CSO CISA orders feds to patch Oracle Identity Manager zero-day after signs of abuse Agencies have until December 12 to mitigate flaw that was likely exploited before Big Red released fix
AI + ML Big Red borrows a lot of green, hopes AI will put it in the black Cost of insuring against Oracle debt default spikes as September seems a long time ago
Cyber-crime Extra, extra, read all about it: Washington Post clobbered in Clop caper Nearly 10,000 staff and contractors warned after attackers raided newspaper's Oracle EBS setup
Cyber-crime Hitachi-owned GlobalLogic admits data stolen on 10k current and former staff Clop's Oracle EBS exploit spree shows no sign of slowing, claims nearly 30 more casualties in media, finance, and tech.
Cyber-crime Allianz UK joins growing list of Clop’s Oracle E-Business Suite victims Insurance giant’s UK arm says cybercriminals misattributed the real victim
On-Prem Meta to sell $30B in bonds to build AI datacenters Zuckcorp will gladly pay you in 2065 for the eyewatering sums it is borrowing today
Databases The clock's ticking for MySQL 8.0 as end of life looms Percona says more than half of installs remain on version set to lose support in 2026
AI + ML Google parent company spending like a drunken sailor as capex triples over 2 years Microsoft also ramping up spending, but investors concerned about overshooting demand
Cybersecurity Month American Airlines subsidiary Envoy caught in Clop's Oracle EBS raid Not a good week for Big Red
AI + ML Oracle goes all-in on AI, customers still figuring out how they'll use it It's all agents and LLMs in Vegas, and even legacy users can partake
AI + ML Larry Ellison's latest craze: Vectorizing all the customers Oracle slurps your data whether you like it or not... for the good and bad of the planet
Systems 18 zettaFLOPS of new AI compute coming online from Oracle late next year New clusters to feature 800,000 Nvidia Blackwell and 50,000 AMD Instinct MI450X GPUs
Patches Oracle rushes out another emergency E-Business Suite patch as Clop fallout widens Latest in a long line of EBS flaws leta miscreants remotely compromise enterprise systems to pinch sensitive data
Cybersecurity Month Crims had 3-month head start on defenders in Oracle EBS invasion The miscreants started their attack all the way back on July 10
AI + ML Bank of England smells hint of dotcom bubble 2.0 in AI froth UK central bank warns of 'sudden correction' in tech stocks
Public Sector UK Home Office doubles down on Oracle with £54M cloud contract Department also wedded to Big Red in shared service applications
Cybersecurity Month Clop raid on Oracle E-Business Suite started months ago, researchers warn Strap in, admins. Exploits began in August and now the code is out there
Cybersecurity Month Red Hat breach escalates as criminals collaborate on 'multi-terabyte' extortion plot Bad guys promise not to attack customers if they get paid
Cybersecurity Month Clop crew hits Oracle E-Business Suite users with fresh zero-day Big Red rushes out patch for 9.8-rated flaw after crooks exploit it for data theft and extortion
Cybersecurity Month Oracle tells Clop-targeted EBS users to apply July patch, problem solved Researchers suggest internet-facing portals are exposing 'thousands' of orgs
Cybersecurity Month Clop-linked crims shake down Oracle execs with data theft claims Extortion emails name-drop Big Red's E-Business Suite, though Google and Mandiant yet to find proof of any breach
AI + ML Oracle will have to borrow at least $25B a year to fund AI fantasy, says analyst Bubble, you say? OpenAI will borrow billions to pay Big Red, who will borrow billions on the hope OpenAI pays it
PaaS + IaaS Oracle saddles up with $18B debt amid AI infrastructure gamble Ballooning leverage and shaky customer funding could strain Big Red's balance sheet
Databases Europe's largest city council delays fix to disastrous Oracle system once more System meant to go live in 2021 costing £20M awaits reimplementation with new £170M price tag
Off-Prem OpenAI's Stargate project to pave the world with AI datacenters announces five new US locations In Texas, New Mexico, and the Midwest
PaaS + IaaS Oracle gets to store US users' TikTok data, says Trump President to announce details on Big Red’s storage and security deal for Chinese social media phenomenon later this week
CxO Two heads better than one? Oracle gives the co-CEO model another shot Cloud and apps chiefs step up as Safra Catz moves upstairs. Larry remains Larry
AI + ML Moody's raises Big Red flag over Oracle's AI datacenter buildout blueprint Ratings agency points out there's a risk of relying on a small number of buyers
Databases 'Technical debt' in police database built to respond to child murders causing a 'failing service' Project rated at 'Red' risk as it struggles to move off obsolete Oracle tech and cloud transition stalls
Databases Monty Widenius 'heartbroken' at the extent of Oracle's MySQL job cuts Original author of open source database 'not surprised' but 'saddened' as critics slam vendor's layoffs
Off-Prem OpenAI reportedly on the hook for $300B Oracle Cloud bill Tick tock Sam, just fifteen months before your first bill is due
AI + ML Oracle boasts $455B backlog from AI boom, but not all its new friends will live to pay up With extinction event predicted, Big Red's four-year forecasts will have to meet reality
Databases Mega-and-MAGA deals position Oracle's Larry Ellison to overtake Elon Big Red's profits are flat, but its order book is phat
PaaS + IaaS Oracle’s layoff train rolls on: 101 in WA, 250+ in CA - with more cuts looming Big Red bloodbath not yet acknowledged by the company
Science Larry Ellison bankrolling £118M AI vaccine research at Oxford University Oracle billionaire funds project to predict immunity and develop treatments for hard-to-prevent diseases
PaaS + IaaS Oracle cuts cloud jobs with Seattle hit hard as AI spending soars AI will take your salary in capex before it can take your job
Databases Birmingham City Council's £131M Oracle rebuild in danger as go-live nears Finance and HR system overhaul still faces major risks with just months to go before second launch
Cloud Infrastructure Month Oracle offers workaround to Windows boot issue in the cloud instead of fix Kludge causing production outages
AI + ML Enterprise software giants weaponize AI to kill discounts and deepen lock-in Oracle, SAP, Salesforce et al are tightening the screws, Forrester warns
Virtualization Oracle VirtualBox licensing tweak lies in wait for the unwary Java-like move could land those expecting free trial with a new bill
Cloud Infrastructure Month Not so SaaSy now: Oracle sugars BYOL deals as AWS database tie-in goes live Big Red incentivizes perpetual licenses with 76% savings as it parks racks in hyperscaler datacenters
Devops Nearly 3 out of 4 Oracle Java users say they've been audited in the past 3 years Big Red’s changes to Java licensing also inspire exodus to open source
Databases Rimini Street, Oracle edge toward truce after years of legal warfare Hush-hush settlement follows decision to wind down PeopleSoft support
Cloud Infrastructure Month Feds brag about hefty Oracle discount – licensing experts smell a lock-in If a deal looks too good to be true, it probably is
Databases Oracle just signed one mystery customer that will double its cloud revenue in 2028 Could it be an AI model builder? A Chinese e-tailer? Perhaps a TikTok mass migration
Public Sector Bank of England expands data and cloud framework by £26.7 million after revising data strategy Dependent on SAP and Oracle, UK central bank wants to modernize in the cloud, refresh data strategy
PaaS + IaaS Oracle scores cloud customer – maybe China's TEMU – that wants any available server, anytime, anywhere
AI + ML Larry Ellison wants to put all America's data, including DNA, in one big Oracle system for AI to study
Public Sector Europe's largest council could face £12M manual audit bill after Oracle project disaster
Software Oracle Java license teams set to begin targeting Oracle users who don't think they use Oracle
Databases Mega city council's Oracle ERP system still not legally safe, compliant... 2 years after rollout
Public Sector City council megaproject to spend millions for manual work Oracle system was meant to do
