China’s call to foster semiconductor independence has sent investors chasing after chip startups of all sorts. Moffett AI, a Shenzhen-based chip design company, has received a fresh Series A injection. The company did not disclose the exact amount, only saying that the proceeds were in the “several tens of millions of dollars.” The round was […]
EU clears Microsoft-Nuance without conditions
The European Union’s competition regulator has given the all-clear to Microsoft’s $19.7 billion purchase of transcription tech firm Nuance, which was announced earlier this year. The EU said today it has concluded there are no competition concerns for the region if the acquisition goes ahead, clearing it without conditions. The deal was notified to the […]
Oracle joins Microsoft in spending big to dominate healthcare vertical
Enterprise software companies are focused firmly on healthcare. If you want proof, look at how Oracle and Microsoft both backed up trucks loaded with money to buy health tech companies this year.
Oracle To Pay More Than $30 Billion Including Debt for Cerner
Oracle is expected to pay more than $30 billion including debt for electronic-medical-records company Cerner, WSJ reported Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. From a report: The all-cash deal is expected to be announced later Monday and val…
Pentagon announces new cloud initiative to replace ill-fated JEDI contract
The Pentagon announced a limited request for bids for a new cloud initiative today that replaces the cancelled $10 billion, decade-long JEDI contract initiative. You may recall (or not) that it previously ran a winner-take-all bid it had dubbed JEDI (short for Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure). The new initiative goes by the much less catchy […]
Haven’t switched from CentOS 8 yet? Here are your options
Red Hat promised that it would continue to support each CentOS release for about a decade. However, the company changed its mind and suddenly cut support for the latest CentOS release.
Oracle JDK 17、再び商用利用が無料で可能に
Oracleの提供するJava開発キット「Oracle JDK」が、商用目的の使用を含めて再び無償で利用可能になるとInfoQが報じています。新しいライセンスは「Oracle JDKのプロダクション環境での使用を有償化す…
Salesforce’s Kathy Baxter and Amazon’s Nashlie Sephus talk keeping AI ethical at enterprise scale
AI and big data are an important part of most enterprise-scale companies now, but that very scale can make it difficult to employ them safely and ethically. Kathy Baxter at Salesforce and Nashlie Sephus at AWS have made ethical AI and data collection their business over the last few years, both sounding the alarm on […]
Oracle Appeal Over JEDI Contract Turned Away by Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court turned away a lingering appeal by Oracle stemming from its challenge to the now-scrapped $10 billion cloud-computing contract the Pentagon awarded to Microsoft in 2019. From a report: The rejection was a formality given the Defen…
オラクル、Oracle JDKを無料提供へ、本番環境でも利用可に
米Oracleは14日、Java 17の発表と同時に企業向けのディストリビューションであるOracleJDKのライセンスを更新、無料で利用できるようにしたと発表した。新しいライセンスは「OracleNo-FeeTerms andConditions」（NFTC）。商用および実稼働環境での使用も可能で、無償配布である限りは再配布もできる。同日から配布の始まったOracle JDK 17から、この無料のリリースとアップデートの提供を行うとしている。次の長期サポート（LTS）がリリースされてから1年が経過…