Robots are coming to take your job

	Ellison spills beans on Oracle's upcoming SAP HANA competitor and Database 12c plans | Google and Red Hat collaborate on App Engine in private clouds
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	Robots are coming to take your job Technology has often seemed both a blessing and a curse, but more and more it's also the competition. If you are a bank teller or customer service rep -- even a lawyer or accountant -- a computer may in the near future take your job away. Technological innovation has historically boosted productivity and made societies wealthier. But with the new generation of machines able to perform increasingly sophisticated tasks, we are seeing the elimination of a broad range of jobs and a divergence between productivity and wages, economists say. Read More WHITE PAPER: Symantec Your Checklist for Patch Management With the continuing proliferation of software and devices in the modern enterprise, manual patch management simply can't keep up. Managing Microsoft's monthly Patch Tuesday updates represents just the tip of the iceberg. Read Now! In this Issue Ellison spills beans on Oracle's upcoming SAP HANA competitor and Database 12c plans Google and Red Hat collaborate on App Engine in private clouds Oracle, Microsoft to announce new partnership Monday Samsung's ATIV Q tablet runs both Windows 8 and Android Jelly Bean Aaron's Law would revamp computer fraud penalties WHITE PAPER: Vidyo Global Video Conferencing Technology Leadership Award According to recent Frost & Sullivan research, the market for video conferencing systems and services stands at $3.2 billion and is forecast to almost double to $6.3 billion by 2016. This high growth market represents an escalating demand to use video for all aspects of enterprise communications. Learn More Ellison spills beans on Oracle's upcoming SAP HANA competitor and Database 12c plans Oracle hasn't even officially released its 12c database yet, but CEO Larry Ellison has already revealed plans for the version that will follow, 12.1c, which apparently will be Oracle's most direct response yet to SAP's HANA in-memory platform. Oracle Database 12.1c will be a "columnar, compressed, high-speed, in-memory database," Ellison said during Oracle's quarterly earnings call Thursday. "One reason I was confident SAP HANA could never compete with Oracle was because of 12.1c." Read More Google and Red Hat collaborate on App Engine in private clouds Google is hoping to appease developers that want better portability for their hosted apps by working with Red Hat on running App Engine in private clouds. The Google Cloud Platform team has been working with Red Hat's JBoss Application Server team to help create an alternate implementation of Google App Engine running on top of JBoss, said Google software engineer Ludovic Champenois in a blog post. Read More Oracle, Microsoft to announce new partnership Monday Microsoft and Oracle are set to reveal details of a new partnership on Monday, one of a "startling series" of announcements Oracle CEO Larry Ellison promised next week around the Oracle Database 12c. Read More Samsung's ATIV Q tablet runs both Windows 8 and Android Jelly Bean Samsung on Thursday announced nine new products, including smartphones, tablets, and a smart camera, but the biggest breakthrough product was a 13.3-inch convertible tablet called the ATIV Q that runs both Android Jelly Bean and Windows 8. Read More Aaron's Law would revamp computer fraud penalties Two U.S. lawmakers have introduced a bill that would prevent the Department of Justice from prosecuting people for violating terms of service for Web-based products, website notices or employment agreements under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). On Thursday, Representative Zoe Lofgren, a California Democrat, and Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, introduced Aaron's Law, a bill aimed at removing some types of prosecutions under the CFAA. Read More
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