Today at Oracle OpenWorld Steve Miranda, Oracle SVP of applications development, announced the general availability of Oracle’s next generation of business applications, Fusion Applications. The apps are available both on-premise or as cloud hosted software-as-a-services and will have mobile versions. Customers will be able to pick and choose the apps they want to use, or ...

Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff just tweeted that his keynote has been cancelled by Oracle. He wrote: “I don’t know why….your guess is valued. Just cancelled. That’s all we know.” In lieu of his keynote, he’s invited people to join him at St. Regis AME Restaurant at 10:30 AM tomorrow instead. Here are the tweets, along ...

Last month Google Plus opened its API to the public, but with a fairly limited set of features, which have slowly been expanded. Today the company added a few new features, most notably search. The API now includes options for searching both for content within posts and for individual users. The blog post announcing the new ...

Yesterday Oracle announced its Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c, which adds cloud management features to Enterprise Manager. Today Force10, which Dell acquired this year, announced Dell Force10 Open Automation Plug-in for Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c, which brings network monitoring and automation tools for Force10 hardware into Enterprise Manager. To mark the occasion, SiliconAngle had Force10 Chief ...

Today all eyes are on Apple, which is expected to announce the next iPhone, and Oracle, which continues its OpenWorld event. Apple has a tendency to get us excited about the future and what’s possible. But that future is always tightly controlled by Apple. These constraints can be good for some developers’ creativity and we’ve ...

This morning Oracle officially announced Oracle NoSQL, a product our editor Alex Williams broke the news about last week.  It turns out that Oracle NoSQL will be a separate product from Oracle Exalytics, the business analytics appliance CEO Larry Ellison announced last night. During his keynote this morning, Oracle EVP of Product Development Thomas Kurian officially ...

Pantheon‘s new hosted Drupal service opened to the public today, with prices starting at $100 a month. Pantheon is a startup co-founded by CEO Zack Rosen, a well known Drupal contributor (and a nephew of noted NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen). Drupal is a popular open source Web content management system. It’s become especially popular ...

It’s been a while since I’ve heard anything out of Moxie Software, an enterprise social software vendor with a strong emphasis on usability. But today an infographic produced by the company is doing rounds on Twitter, and has some interesting pieces of information. The infographic is based on survey data from Resources commissioned by Moxie. ...

Today at its first user conference (see our live blog here, or see the announcements on Box’s blog) Box made several announcements, most notably a new enterprise grade version called Box Sync. Box CEO Aaron Levie also talked up new security features, the ability to pipe Box updates into Salesforce.com Chatter and partnerships to preload ...

Heroku just added support for yet another language: Python. Heroku added partial support for Python via Facebook for Heroku earlier this month, but this marks the first time the platform-as-a-service has supported the language for all developers. Heroku is also supporting Django, a Web application framework that is to Python as Ruby on Rails is ...