SA ICT firm wants R100 million in damages from Oracle
South African ICT solutions provider Time Quantum is seeking damages of over R100 million in a legal dispute with American technology conglomerate Oracle.
Oracle is a Fortune 500 company and ranked among the 25 largest companies in the...
Oracle trains South Africans in agentic AI software for free
South Africans can be awarded globally recognised credentials for completing training in agentic artificial intelligence (AI) systems through the Oracle University MyLearn platform.
The US cloud giant offers two primary agentic AI...
The year of Larry Ellison
When the year began, a billionaire with close ties to the White House was a lock for the most newsworthy tech titan of 2025.
But 12 chaotic months later, Larry Ellison, not Elon Musk, can justifiably lay claim to the title.
SIU report findings on National Treasury-Oracle contract allege cost tripled
A controversial IT contract awarded to US tech giant Oracle was allegedly facilitated by a former National Treasury senior official and its cost has tripled from an initial amount of R670 million to R1.9 billion...
Oracle shares take a dive after slowdown in cloud revenue
Oracle Corp. reported cloud sales growth that slowed in the quarter, dimming enthusiasm about the software maker’s expansion efforts in the competitive market.
The shares declined about 9% in extended trading.
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TikTok will "soon" give Oracle full access to its codebase and algorithm
TikTok will “soon” grant Oracle Corp. full access to its source code, algorithm and content-moderation material as part of efforts to alleviate national security concerns about the app.
Oracle will also begin monitoring...
Best payroll software for businesses in SA
Payroll is an essential aspect of any business, whether it be a startup, small company, or large enterprise, and businesses in South Africa have several options from which to choose.
Some of the best cloud-based payroll software providers available to...
Oracle's cloud performance fails to meet expectations
Oracle Corp. reported quarterly sales in line with analysts’ estimates after its cloud business failed to meet expectations for higher growth. The shares declined in extended trading.
Fiscal third-quarter revenue increased 18% to $12.4...
Top HR management software for South African businesses
With employees being one of the most important aspects of any business, companies often spend large sums of money managing their human resources (HR).
Several cloud-based human capital management (HCM) software packages are available to...
Best ERP software for South African businesses in 2023
There are several powerful enterprise resource planning (ERP) software suites available to South African businesses, including one with local roots.
ERP software converges data from different business activities, allowing for a more...
Best enterprise CRM providers of 2023
Maintaining customer relationships is essential for any enterprise, and many reputable providers can help South African companies manage this aspect of their business.
Customer relationship management (CRM) software helps businesses build relationships...
Best financial management software for South African businesses
One of the defining aspects of a business is how it manages money, including cash flow, accounting, financial planning, and compliance, and several companies provide all-encompassing financial management software.
Some of the best...
Best HR management software for South African businesses
As South African businesses and their workforces grow, it can be challenging to manage one of the most important aspects of a business — human resources.
However, enterprises have several cloud-based human capital management (HCM)...
Major Apache Commons Text vulnerability discovered
A dangerous vulnerability related to reckless string interpolation behaviour has been found in the Java source code library Apache Commons Text, Sophos reports.
The flaw is tracked as CVE-2022-42889 and affects Apache Commons Text versions...
Oracle sheds jobs in US unit
Oracle Corp. cut jobs in marketing and the US customer experience division, signalling a pullback in customer analytics and advertising services.
Some workers were told Monday that their positions had been eliminated, according to four people with direct knowledge...
Growth of data centres in South Africa
South Africa's data centre market is growing rapidly, with industry players building bigger and more advanced data centres.
The list of companies with facilities in the country continues to grow after Teraco kicked off South Africa's carrier-neutral data...
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UK heat wave slams Oracle and Google data centres
London data centres used by Google and Oracle Corp. buckled on Tuesday after a record-setting heat wave hit Britain, knocking some websites offline.
Both companies cited problems with “cooling systems” for causing the outages.
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Telkom in major data centre play
Telkom is potentially looking at announcing a partnership with a hyperscale computing provider soon, CEO Serame Taukobong has told MyBroadband.
Hyperscalers include players such as Alibaba, Huawei, Oracle, Facebook, Amazon Web Services, SAP, Microsoft, and Google.
Linux developers faster at fixing security bugs than Microsoft and Apple
Linux developers take less time to patch security vulnerabilities than the teams at large software companies — including Microsoft, Apple, and Google.
That is according to Google's Project Zero, a research initiative that...
Oracle Cloud launch date for South African region announced
Cloud services provider Oracle has opened up its new Johannesburg region for registration and confirmed that it will go live on 19 January 2022.
Several MyBroadband forum members who are existing Oracle customers discovered that the...