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Oracle Corp. is in talks to buy all or part of Hewlett-Packard Co.'s (HP) middleware product portfolio, Oracle Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Larry Ellison confirmed Wednesday.

Oracle Corp. is in talks to buy all or part of Hewlett-Packard Co.'s (HP) middleware product portfolio, Oracle chairman and CEO Larry Ellison confirmed Wednesday.

Several telecommunications companies have provided funds to keep a key part of bankrupt KPNQwest NV's network running until at least July 1, Koninklijke KPN NV said Monday.

Mass use of Bluetooth for short-range wireless communication is years away. The technology's backers hyped Bluetooth and, back in reality, now predict that it will be eight years before Bluetooth is as commonly used as a mobile phone is today.

Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) took the wraps off a new top-of-the line NonStop server Wednesday, the NonStop S86000, that HP says offers as much as a 170 per cent performance boost, according to HP's internal order-entry benchmark, over previous NonStop S-series servers.

A security flaw in the popular Apache Web server could allow a malicious hacker to launch a denial of service attack or even take over a system on which the software is running, the Apache Software Foundation warned in an advisory Monday.

Oracle Corp. has acquired WebGain Inc.'s TopLink family of tools for Java developers, the Redwood Shores, California, software maker said Monday.

Oracle Corp. has acquired WebGain Inc.'s TopLink family of tools for Java developers, the Redwood Shores, California, software maker said Monday. nTopLink tools simplify the linking of applications to a database by allowing Java developers to map Java objects to the database. Now the developer can focus on the application, instead of the infrastructure underneath, said an Oracle spokeswoman, who asked not to be named.