Oracle: Latest news and insights

Oracle is an enterprise software vendor based in Austin, Texas. It specializes in database software and enterprise software products, including enterprise resource planning (ERP), human capital management (HCM), customer relationship management (CRM), enterprise performance management (EPM), customer experience commerce (CX commerce), and supply chain management (SCM).

The company is increasingly focused on supporting generative AI across its database, infrastructure, and applications offerings. Oracle has a market cap of $483 billion, making it the 11th largest tech company in the world.

Here is the latest Oracle news and analysis:

Oracle SVP Thorsten Herrmann: Being late to the cloud has its advantages

August 8, 2025: Computerwoche’s Martin Bayer sat down with Thorsten Hermann, SVP technology and Germany country leader, at Oracle to discuss the company’s cloud ambitions, issues around digital and AI sovereignty, and why he says Oracle will “continue to push ahead with partnerships.”

Oracle launches MCP server to power context-aware AI agents for enterprise data

July 18, 2025: The new Oracle MCP server has been integrated into Oracle’s core developer tools, making the Oracle Database immediately available on any platform supporting MCP. This integration is made available via Oracle’s new command line to the Oracle Database, Oracle SQLcl.

Oracle’s Java licensing shift sparks mass migration to open source

July 16, 2025: Nearly 8 in 10 organizations are moving away from Oracle Java, driven by rising costs and frustration over the company’s shift to employee-based pricing, according to a research report based on the ITAM & SAM Survey 2025.

One click to compromise: Oracle Cloud Code Editor flaw exposed users to RCE

July 16, 2025: A now-patched vulnerability in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s (OCI) Code Editor exposed users to remote code execution (RCE) attacks with just a single click. Discovered by Tenable Research, the flaw could allow attackers to upload malicious files to a victim’s Cloud Shell environment and potentially pivot to broader services. According to the researchers, the culprit was a poorly guarded file upload endpoint hidden inside a browser-based IDE.

Oracle Database@AWS goes GA: Exadata and Autonomous DB now live in the US

July 9, 2025: Oracle and AWS have expanded their collaboration to make the Oracle Database@AWS service generally available in the US. The Oracle Database@AWS service, previewed in September last year, is a continuation of Oracle’s strategy to partner with hyperscalers to offer its database services in the latter’s infrastructure.

GSA, Oracle sign major deal offering 75% discount on licenses

July 8, 2025: The US General Services Administration announced the signing of a OneGov deal with Oracle that provides federal government agencies with a deep discount on the company’s enterprise software applications, as well as its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, until November 30 of this year.

Oracle to power OpenAI’s AGI ambitions with 4.5GW expansion

July 3, 2025: OpenAI has signed a significant compute leasing deal with Oracle, under which it will access 4.5 gigawatts (GW) of data center power, marking one of the largest single leasing arrangements in the industry.

Oracle inks $30 billion cloud deal, continuing its strong push into AI infrastructure

June 30, 2025: The cloud services agreement will add $30 billion annually to Oracle’ revenue beginning in fiscal year 2028, which begins June 1, 2027. The customer has yet to be named, but the commitment could ultimately comprise a quarter to a third of Oracle’s revenues in FY2028, based on its most recent fiscal year revenue of $57.4 billion.

Larry Ellison has big ambitions for Oracle’s cloud business

June 27, 2025: Having initially downplayed the importance of the cloud over a decade ago, the Oracle founder announced in a Q4 earnings call that Oracle aims to become No. 1 in three key areas: cloud databases, cloud applications, and the construction and operation of cloud data centers.

The key to Oracle’s AI future

June 16, 2025: Making its database and cloud services ‘AI-centric’ has brought Oracle newfound momentum. It still needs to figure out developers.

Oracle’s struggle with capacity meant they made the difficult but responsible decisions

June 12, 2025: Oracle knew that a massive wave of orders was coming, but they refused to build out infrastructure until contracts were signed. They faced an impossible choice: Insufficient capacity or excess capacity.

Oracle to spend $40B on Nvidia chips for OpenAI data center in Texas

May 26, 2025: Oracle is reportedly spending about $40 billion on Nvidia’s high-performance computer chips to power OpenAI’s new data center in Texas, marking a pivotal shift in the AI infrastructure landscape that has significant implications for enterprise IT strategies.

Oracle releases FIPS-validated crypto module for Java

April 30, 2025: Oracle has announced Oracle Jipher, which makes cryptographic services available for Java developers using the standard Java Cryptography Architecture (JCA) framework.

Nvidia AI supercluster targets agents, reasoning models on Oracle Cloud

April 29, 2025: Oracle has deployed thousands of Nvidia GPUs across its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure cloud service to be used develop and run next-generation reasoning models and AI agents.

Has Oracle knocked SAP off the ERP throne?

Apr 23, 2025: A new study estimates that Oracle became the leading provider of ERP applications in 2024, stealing a position that SAP had held since the early 1980s.

Oracle quietly admits data breach, days after lawsuit accused it of cover-up

April 3, 2025: Oracle has finally admitted to suffering a significant data breach, quietly notifying select customers about the security incident just days after being hit with a class action lawsuit that accused the tech giant of attempting to conceal the breach from affected users.

Oracle warns customers of health data breach amid public denial

April 1, 2025: Oracle’s healthcare subsidiary, Oracle Health, has suffered a data breach, potentially exposing customers’ sensitive data, the company told some of its customers.

Roundup: AMD closes ZT deal, teams with Rapt, bands with Oracle

April 1, 2025: Oracle has announced the availability of fifth generation AMD Epyc processors (codenamed “Turin”) on its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) cloud services.

Oracle releases ML-optimized GraalVM for JDK 24

March 25, 2025: Oracle has released GraalVM for JDK 24, an alternative Java Development Kit tuned to just-released JDK 24 that uses ML (machine learning)-based profile inference to boost peak performance by about 7.9% on average on microservices benchmarks, the company said.

Oracle Cloud breach may impact 140,000 enterprise customers

March 24, 2025: A threat actor has reportedly breached Oracle Cloud infrastructure, exfiltrating six million sensitive authentication records and potentially endangering more than 140,000 enterprise customers. The attacker is now demanding ransom payments while actively marketing the stolen data on underground forums, according to threat intelligence firm CloudSEK.

Oracle’s AI Agent Studio is free for Fusion Cloud customers

Mar 20, 2025: Oracle has added a new AI Agent Studio to its Fusion Cloud business applications, at no additional cost, to attract and retain its enterprise customers as rival software vendors ramp up their agent-based offerings with the aim of garnering more market share.

Oracle reveals five new features coming to Java

March 18, 2025: With JDK (Java Development Kit) 24 having just reached general availability, Oracle has given a sneak peek at Java features set to arrive in the not-too-distant future, ranging from enhanced primitive boxing to null-restricted value class types.

Oracle, Nvidia partner to add AI software into OCI services

March 18, 2025: Oracle and Nvidia are partnering to make the latter’s AI Enterprise software stack available via Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services.

Critical deserialization bugs in Adobe, Oracle software actively exploited, warns CISA

February 25, 2025: CISA is warning Adobe and Oracle customers about in-the-wild exploitation of critical vulnerabilities affecting the services of these leading enterprise software providers.

How Birmingham’s $48M Oracle ERP project turned into an epic failure

February 21, 2025: Birmingham City Council’s (BCC) troubled enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, built on Oracle software, has become a case study of how large-scale IT projects can go awry. The system, intended to streamline payments and HR processes, is now “unlikely” to function correctly before 2026 — four years after its 2022 launch.

Oracle extends support for on-prem Oracle Database 19c

February 19, 2025: As the status of an on-premises version of Oracle Database 23ai remains in limbo, the company has tossed a bone to its on-prem Oracle Database 19c customers in the form of an extension of Premier Support to Dec. 31, 2029, and Extended Support to Dec. 31, 2032.

Oracle maintains hold on JavaScript trademark

February 6, 2025: Oracle, under external pressure to yield control over the JavaScript trademark, has instead filed a motion for dismissal of part of a petition to cancel the trademark.

OpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle lead $500B Project Stargate to ramp up AI infra in the US

January 22, 2025: Several large technology firms including OpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle, Nvidia, and MGX have partnered to set up a new company in the US to ramp up AI infrastructure in the country.

Oracle updates Exadata systems to speed database operations

January 17, 2025: The company recently updated its Exadata platform, the Oracle Exadata X11M.  The box is purpose-built to optimize the performance of Oracle Database for AI, OLTP, and analytics database performance in cloud, multi-cloud, and customer data centers.

Oracle refuses to yield JavaScript trademark, Deno Land says

January 10, 2025: JavaScript runtime provider Deno Land’s efforts to get Oracle to yield the trademark for JavaScript have hit a snag, with Oracle refusing to voluntarily withdraw the trademark, Deno Land said.

Oracle offers price-performance boost with Exadata X11M update

January 8, 2025: The new version of Oracle’s Exadata platform, X11M, is now generally available, and promises improved performance on generative AI tasks such as retrieval augmented generation (RAG) for the same price as the old version.

Oracle adds agentic AI to Fusion Cloud CX

October 9, 2024: Aiming to deliver end-to-end service automation, Oracle on Wednesday unveiled new agentic AI capabilities for Oracle Fusion Cloud Service and Oracle Fusion Field Service. Oracle said the new AI-driven workflows will help service teams increase service efficiency, reduce time-to-resolution, and improve customer experience.

Oracle CloudWorld 2024: 10 key takeaways from the big annual event

September 18, 2024: The cloud services provider’s announcements this year focused on providing developers and enterprises with new ways to take advantage of generative AI in their operations.

Oracle adds Zero Trust Packet Routing capability to its cloud platform

September 11, 2024: An analyst says it could allow CISOs to better enforce security policies by decoupling security policies from the complexities of network configurations.

Oracle updates Fusion Cloud CX with CDP, B2B buying features

September 11, 2024: Some of the new CDP features include an account profile explorer, buying group and opportunity scoring, industry onboarding accelerators, and native Oracle Analytics cloud integration.

Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM gets AI-powered Dynamic Skills feature

September 11, 2024: The Dynamics Skills feature in Cloud HCM is designed to help enterprises keep a tab on their current and future skills requirement.

Oracle updates Fusion Cloud SCM with AI-based features

September 11, 2024: The SCM suite has also been updated with an RFID-powered inventory management application to aid healthcare firms.

Oracle launches a new sustainability app for Fusion Cloud EPM

September 11, 2024: Oracle Fusion Cloud Sustainability would integrate data from Fusion Cloud ERP and Oracle SCM to enable analysis and reporting within Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM and Oracle Fusion Data Intelligence.

Oracle NetSuite weaves new AI capabilities across its product line

September 10, 2024: The company continues to infuse AI into its ERP suite, while adding other updated capabilities and resources and a new procurement solution.

Oracle Fusion Data Intelligence gets Gen AI-powered developer assistant

September 10, 2024: Other features include new intelligent applications baked into Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM and Fusion Cloud HCM.

Oracle inks deal with AWS to offer database services

September 10, 2024: Oracle’s partnership with AWS follows similar deals with Microsoft and Google over the past 12 months.

Oracle CloudWorld 2024: What to expect

August 30, 2024: Oracle CloudWorld, one of the tech industry’s signature events, began September 9th. The event, known as OpenWorld until 2020,  is a significant gathering for IT professionals, developers, and business leaders looking to explore the latest advancements in cloud computing. 

Oracle’s $115 million privacy settlement could change industry data collection methods

July 23, 2024: In addition to the payment, Oracle has agreed to stop tracking users in various ways. Privacy advocates applauded the settlement.

IDC Research: Oracle Announcements Recognize the Importance of Multicloud

July 11, 2024: Oracle announced the general availability of Oracle Interconnect for Google Cloud. This announcement came on the heels of a very busy June for Oracle as it announced earnings, including 12% growth for cloud services and license support revenue and new extensions of relationships with Google and Microsoft, respectively.

Oracle HeatWave’s in-database LLMs to help reduce infra costs

June 26, 2024: Oracle has added new features to the service formerly known as MySQL HeatWave to help in generative AI-based app development.

Oracle APEX adds generative AI assistant

June 18, 2024: APEX AI Assistant allows users to create applications using natural language and add a conversational AI interface to any application being developed.

Multicloud: Oracle links database with Google, Microsoft to speed operations

June 12, 2024: Oracle will interconnect with Google’s cloud to make its database services more widely available, while Microsoft is extending its Azure services into Oracle’s cloud to give OpenAI access to more capacity.

Oracle extends support for Java 11, Java on Solaris

May 14, 2024: Oracle will support JDK 11 including JDK 11 on Solaris through at least January 2032, the company confirmed in its Java SE Spring 2024 roadmap update.

Oracle unveils AI-powered coding assistant

May 7, 2024: Oracle Code Assist will be fine-tuned with Oracle software development practices and coding patterns from Java, SQL, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and other technologies such as NetSuite SuiteScript.

Oracle renames Database 23c to 23ai, makes it generally available

May 2, 2024: Oracle Database 23ai has been updated with new features to support AI-based application development and other tasks.

Oracle adds AI capabilities to its Fusion Cloud CX

April 25, 2024: The new capabilities in Fusion Cloud CX are expected to take on offerings from rivals such as Salesforce, ServiceNow, and SAP.

IDC Research: Oracle Ushers in a New Era for Oracle Database Users with Generative AI

April 21, 2024: With generative AI in Oracle Autonomous Database and Oracle Database 23c, Oracle has greatly enhanced the general usability of the database by making the data broadly available to end users, without requiring technical knowledge.

Oracle to invest $8 billion in Japan through 2034

April 17, 2024: Oracle’s investment in Japan spread across a period of 10 years will see the public cloud service provider expand its cloud infrastructure footprint in the country to meet the growing demand for AI-based workloads.

IDC Research: Oracle’s FY 3Q24 Performance: Oracle OCI Delivers Impressive Growth

April 16, 2024: Oracle reported its FY 3Q24 earnings, which showed strong momentum in realizing its cloud strategy, along with forward-looking projections that were equally optimistic.

Oracle makes its pitch for the enterprise cloud. Should CIOs listen?

April 11, 2024: Acquisitions, partnerships, and a focus on AI for Oracle-captive enterprises could make enterprise software vendor a compelling player in multicloud environments and specific verticals.

Oracle touts AI as major driver of Q3 gains

March 12, 2024: Buoyed by cloud sales, the software giant’s numbers are good, but some dispute the AI-driven nature of the company’s gains.

Oracle Autonomous Database adds AI conversation support

February 15, 2024: Upgrade may help Oracle establish a lead against rivals such as AWS, Google, IBM, and Snowflake in providing an autonomous cloud database, analysts say.

Oracle Cloud SCM gets new capabilities to help manage logistics

February 12, 2024: The new updates have been added to Oracle Transportation Management and Oracle Global Trade Management applications, which are a part of Oracle’s Cloud Supply Chain and Manufacturing (SCM) suite.

Oracle has a better generative AI strategy, analysts say

January 23, 2024: Oracle offers enterprises a more streamlined approach to lowering the costs of continuously training LLMs on organization knowledge, analysts say, though it lags rivals in generative AI services.

Oracle’s plans for Java in 2024

January 23, 2024: The Java steward expects the OpenJDK to tackle improvements ranging from a simplified main to GPU programming, condensers, and value objects, although all may not arrive this year.