Doug Meil is a software architect in healthcare data management and analytics, and an ACM Senior Member. He also founded the Cleveland Big Data Meetup in 2010. More of his BLOG@CACM posts can be found ...

Oracle’s Java team sat down with me last week for a fast-moving briefing on Java 25 and the broader direction of the platform. The headline: JDK 25 is an LTS release, the second on Oracle’s new ...

The Reading School District has detailed plans for its new Innovation Academy, set to open for grades 10–12 in the 2026–27 school year. The academy will combine traditional academics with hands-on, ...

This release of Ubuntu Server brings fresh versions of multiple developer tools. Java gets OpenJDK 25 LTS with CRaC, and ...

Coding is becoming a background task. Discover why the "syntax barrier" has vanished and the three orchestration skills I’m teaching my kids to survive the AI agent era.

Oracle on Monday announced it hired a new chief financial officer after the software giant moved forward with layoffs last week. The company announced that Hilary Maxson will serve as the new CFO, ...

The tech giant Oracle is expected to lay off thousands of employees as the company, formerly headquartered in Silicon Valley, attempts to address its plummeting stock price tied to artificial ...

Oracle on Tuesday reportedly began notifying employees that it is moving forward with a round of layoffs as the company looks to reduce costs. The number of layoffs is in the thousands, according to a ...

LATEST April 2, 3 p.m. More than 150 workers from Oracle’s Pleasanton campus at 5815 Owens Drive will be included in companywide layoffs, according to a WARN notice sent to the California Employment ...

It was not a phone call. It was not a meeting. For thousands of Oracle employees across the globe, Tuesday morning began with a single email landing in their inboxes just after 6 a.m. EST and by the ...

Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, the governor of New Jersey made an unusual admission: He’d run out of COBOL developers. The state’s unemployment insurance systems were written in the 60-year-old ...

Douglas Kehring, Executive VP & Principal Financial Officer, stated the quarter "exceeded expectations across the board," highlighting that both organic total revenue and organic non-GAAP EPS grew at ...