In the 1990s, Microsoft foes Oracle and Sun Microsystems advocated, with little success, using thin clients that they called the Network Computer and Sun Ray, respectively.

Red Hat has forbidden users of its flagship version of Linux from sharing the code. This was done to squash competitors and has caused an uproar. Oracle has publicly chastised Red Hat's owner, IBM ...

My company runs its Oracle databases on HPUX11i and Hewlett Packard hardware. Oracle and HP are certified for use with Linux, so I wanted to see how the performance of some of our databases would ...

The eponymous database client (and server) are absent. Oracle has provided a previous example of orphaned software with its Linux for SPARC project, which was abandoned after two minor releases. There ...

Billed as the world's first autonomous operating system, Oracle Autonomous Linux provisions itself, scales itself, tunes itself and patches itself while running.

There will be computers, devices based on JavaFX, not only from Google but also from [Oracle]. It is more than 15 years since Ellison began talking up the thin client as the next computing platform.

Largo, Fla., says its choice of Linux servers and thin clients is saving the city at least $1 million a year, and that its IT staff is happily short on end-user support calls.

Oracle has released a virtual desktop client app for the Apple iPad to provide mobile access to server-hosted desktops and enterprise applications. Wim Coekaerts, senior vice-president of Linux ...

Oracle, SUSE & CIQ are teaming up to compete with Red Hat in the enterprise Linux market. Learn about the Open Enterprise Linux Association.

JavaFX everywhere The cornerstone of Oracle’s client-side efforts is JavaFX, a Java technology aimed at making it easier for designers and developers to collaborate to build rich, graphical UIs.