The dispute between Google and Oracle will now face trials in civil court as they failed to settle the disputes out of court, as told by a federal judge. The trial is scheduled to begin on April 16. Both the parties have failed to come to a mutual settlement despite the efforts of their respective counsel.

BMW Oracle Racing settled top spot in the double round robin of the Louis Vuitton Trophy; yesterday it got a triumph over Emirates Team New Zealand.

Oracle which is guided by James Spithill, their Australian skipper, beat the Kiwi crew by 25 seconds. By this victory the record of Oracle increased to 12-2, good for 15 points and an indisputable point at the top of the leader board.

Oracle Financial Services Software Ltd expressed that the group has selected Chaitanya Kamat as the chief executive officer and managing director of the company.

Silicon Valley giant Oracle has announced its decision to hire ousted chief executive of Hewlett-Packard Mark Hurd as its president and member of the board.

The Justice Department has joined a whistle-blower in accusing Oracle of defrauding the federal government by overcharging for software.

In a civil suit filed in federal court, the Justice Department responded that Oracle had failed to give the government the same discounts on software that it provided to commercial customers.

As many as 15,000 supporters have been garnered by a petition to stop Oracle from taking over MySQL, which was started in December by Michael ‘Monty’ Widenius.

The Save MySQL website was started by the MySQL creator right before Christmas. Monty had walked away from the database about 7 months after Sun Microsystems acquired it in September
2008 for a whopping $1 Billion.