The BlackBerry e-mail service was one of the original enterprise cloud services. The on-premise BlackBerry Enterprise Server connects to RIM’s data centers and synchronizes e-mail which is delivered via the cloud to BlackBerry handhelds. But the days of RIM’s dominance in the enterprise are dwindling. We reported the latest RIM outage today. On its own ...

As expected, Google announced its new programming language Dart at GOTO Conf. We previously reported on the language here. Dart is a new programming language that will run in its own virtual machine in Chrome and compile to JavaScript in other browsers. The stated goals are: Create a structured yet flexible language for web programming. Make Dart ...

Dave Vellante and John Furrier interviewed Clustrix CTO Aaron Passey on theCube last week. Clustrix offers a highly scalable relational database that’s fully compatible with MySQL. Passey claims Clustrix can scale near-linearly. The most interesting bit of the interview is when asked about in-memory databases, Passey says that in-memory is basically a hack to that ...

This week Wikibon co-founder and analyst Dave Vellante interviewed NetApp Virtualization Evangelist Vaughn Stewart on theCube at Oracle OpenWorld. Oracle is both a customer of and, since the Sun acquisition, a competitor of NetApp. “These days all your partnerships have some amount of overlap,” Stewart says. He describes the relationship as “Co-optition.” Vellante talked about ...

This morning John Furrier wrote “In memory of Steve Jobs let all of us try to do some ‘amazing’ and ‘share’ it with everyone.” That’s a great challenge and one that everyone, Apple fan or not, should aspire to rise to. Earlier today I posted about this 1996 interview with Steve Jobs. It’s a particularly ...

Yesterday Oracle announced a database-as-a-service offering and a Java platform-as-a-service as part of its Oracle Public Cloud, which is now in developer preview mode. Today Google announced its own DBaaS based on MySQL called Google Cloud SQL. As of now it appears to designed only to work with Google AppEngine, a PaaS from Google that ...

Earlier our editor-in-chief Mark Hopkins wrote a piece about Jobs’ cloud and mobile vision from WWDC in 1997. I’d like to draw your attention even further back, to an interview Jobs did with Gary Wolf in Wired in 1996 when Jobs was still at NeXT. Wolf opens the piece noting that Jobs had been right ...

Earlier today I said that Oracle really is a cloud company, and CEO Larry Ellison’s keynote this evening cemented that fact. In his Oracle Cloud keynote, Ellison revealed new Public Cloud services, including a Java platform-as-a-service and an Oracle database-a-a-service offering. Ellison also unveiled Oracle Social Network. The public cloud site indicates that the Java ...

Steve Jobs, Chairman, co-founder and former CEO of Apple, passed away today according to a statement issued by the Apple board of directors. He was 56. Jobs had been struggling with cancer since 2004. Here’s the board’s statement: We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today. Steve’s brilliance, passion and energy ...

I came down hard on Oracle for open washing Java and Berkley DB. But is the company cloud washing as well? No. Despite what Marc Benioff would have you think, Oracle is very much a cloud company. Benioff has labeled Oracle and other private cloud vendors as peddlers of the “false cloud” at Dreamforce 2011 ...