A little more than a year after The Document Foundation was set up to look after LibreOffice, the fork of the former OpenOffice.org project, it seems that Oracle did the users of the latter office suite a great favour by neglecting it.

New Zealand-based software company specialising in high performance cloud computing, GreenButton, has officially created a separate subsidiary in the United States, opening offices in Palo Alto, California, Seattle and Washington to support the expansion of its technology business in the US market.

  More evidence - if any was needed - of Oracle's disinterest in the open source assets it acquired from Sun Microsystems has come to light with the news that the driver for VirtualBox has been declared as "tainted crap" by Linux kernel developers.

You really have to wonder at what you would need to do in this country to attract a penalty – let alone conviction – for breaching the privacy of others. Because the unauthorised and systematic collection of the personal information of millions of Australians citizens – including emails, bank account details and passwords – apparently isn't enough.

Oracle and NetApp have settled the patent suites that the database giant inherited with its acquisition of Sun Microsystems.

Oracle has hired Mark Hurd, only to be faced with a lawsuit filed by HP in an attempt to stop its former CEO working for a competitor.

OpenSolaris is officially dead. Oracle Corporation, which took over the project when it purchased Sun Microsystems, has finally indicated that the project will no longer be supported.

Nearly six months after it completed the acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Oracle Corporation is yet to make a public statement about the future of the OpenSolaris project.

The Victorian eHealth Network has been launched with a $A80,000 grant from the state government.

Australian enterprises which are heavy users of Sun Microsystems hardware will be “shivering in their boots” until Oracle makes clear its roadmap for the future and sets out what products it will continue to support and what will become legacy.