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Larry Ellison's distractions

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has a lot more on his mind these days than running the giant hardware and software company -- a fact made evident by his recent last-minute decision not to deliver a highly anticipated speech at Oracle's most important user conference. Here's a look at the many, mostly pleasant distractions in the billionaire's life.

Larry Ellison's distractions

News about applications

Snowflake switches gears, from data warehouse to application cloud

By Anirban Ghoshal | 15 June, 2022 07:00

Snowflake now offers developers the ability to build and run apps on a common cloud-based data platform and leverage its Data Marketplace.
AWS adds ML-powered analysis for serverless apps

By Paul Krill | 22 April, 2022 06:45

Amazon DevOps Guru for Serverless uses machine learning to improve the operational availability and performance of AWS Lambda applications.
How SLOs and error budgets improve app reliability

By Isaac Sacolick | 10 August, 2021 00:15

Once upon a time, business sponsors pestered development teams about when a feature would be done or a release ready for deployment.
Java state API would speed app start-up

By Paul Krill | 22 July, 2021 07:00

OpenJDK proposal would eliminate the long start-up times of Java applications by saving the state of the Java runtime and using it to start instances fast.
Eclipse Jakarta EE 9.1 aligns with Java 11

By Paul Krill | 26 May, 2021 13:15

Jakarta Enterprise Edition 9.1 allows developers to use Java SE 11 features in Jakarta EE applications and migrate Jakarta EE apps to Java SE 11.

Tutorials about applications

How to sort your Facebook feed by time on mobile

By Zach Miners | 24 May, 2014 04:00

Weddings. Job promotions. News articles. Facebook thinks it knows what the best stories are to drop in your news feed. But some users might want to see things their own way.

Features about applications

This isn't your father's enterprise software

By Katherine Noyes | 14 March, 2015 01:23

When Patrick Benson joined Ovation Brands back in September 2013, he was given a tall order: modernize an array of legacy IT systems that could no longer keep up with the restaurant-chain conglomerate's business processes.
First look: Photos for OS X brings easier navigation and more powerful editing

By Christopher Breen | 06 February, 2015 06:01

Last June, Apple announced that it would stop development of its Aperture and iPhoto apps and offer a single photo app in their place - Photos for OS X. Now, developers are getting their first glimpse of Photos, as it's bundled with the beta version of OS X 10.10.3.
Chip and PIN: No panacea, but worth the effort – and the cost

By Taylor Armerding | 23 September, 2014 00:42

Relief is in sight for the beleaguered U.S. Payment Card Industry (PCI). By October 2015, chances are that America will no longer have the dubious distinction of leading the world in credit card fraud.
Cloud BI: Going where the data lives

By Nancy Gohring | 20 August, 2014 20:48

Historically, cloud BI has been mostly used by smaller businesses, but larger enterprises are starting to make the trek.
3D printing makes its move into production

By Robert L. Mitchell | 13 August, 2014 20:56

The use of 3D printing for finished goods is about to disrupt manufacturing and supply chains in a big way. Here's why, and here's how IT will be critical to that transition.

SSL Performance Advantage

Unfortunately, not all Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs) are equal. While most can offload computationally expensive SSL processing responsibilities from web and application servers to speed the delivery of SSL-protected applications, others don't deliver fast processing - particularly for applications protected with 2048-bit SSL. In this whitepaper, we look at how to judge the performance of competing solutions. Click to download!