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The Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) critical patch update (CPU) for January 2012 includes just two fixes for the eponymous database. But at least one is a real doozy, it seems. IT Blogwatch, bloggers wonder where the patches are for all the other critical bugs. Not to mention: a heartwarming tale of brotherly support...

That big massive ball of burning hydrogen in the center of our solar system has been getting more and more active as of late -- the sun recently had three solar flares explode from the corona, its high temperature plasma atmosphere. Particularly powerful solar flares produce coronal mass ejections, which can reach temperatures of millions of degrees Fahrenheit at the time of explosion and can eventually reach Earth.

Microsoft just offered more evidence that bad guys are exploiting known bugs in old versions of Java. Anyone not able to keep Java regularly patched (i.e. anyone who thinks of it as a type of coffee) probably shouldn't have it on their computer.

Do you need Java? Is the hassle of having to update yet another piece of software worthwhile? A look at the pros and cons.

But, in partnering with Oracle on OpenJDK, IBM is leaving Apache's Project Harmony out in the cold.

LibreOffice is looking good even as a beta, but it's not a fork yet.

After years of stagnation, a group of OpenOffice developers have decided to revitalize the popular open-source office suite without Oracle's help.

In the IT business, we often talk about stacks. Could Oracle be trying to build its own all-Oracle, top-to-bottom stack?

This is only the beginning of Oracle's pruning of Sun's open-source legacy.

All of Java's developers and the companies that use the language and its frameworks should be worried sick.

Please proceed into Android hell. After yesterday's shock lawsuit from Oracle's accusation of Google lifting its Java technology for Android, comes some deeper analysis. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers ask why Oracle thinks its patents and copyrights have been infringed. Not to mention Fake Steve and Fake Larry on (real) Mark Hurd...
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Oracle, owner of Sun Microsystems since January, has finally clarified roadmaps for its Solaris operating system and Sparc servers. Well, made them less uncertain, anyway. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers peer through the murk to divine the future. Not to mention online dating pics...
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With or without Oracle, the OpenSolaris crew, in the form of the new open-source operating system Illumos, is determined to keep their Unix-based operating system going.

For the most part, a long, slow death.

The open-source Unix distribution may live on, but Oracle won't be supporting it.