In cloud computing news, a group of IT companies lef by Oracle, Rackspace and Red Hat are set to submit a management specification for platform as a service (PaaS), and Quantum challenges Amazon Glacier with its new Q-Cloud.
Acquisition news in the tech and social media industries includes: Salesforce.com and Oracle buying social media intelligence; EMC acquiring performance management and Google gains productivity software with mobile capability.
Fusion-io (FIO) powers Internet radio from Pandora Media (P), Oracle (ORCL) selected by CISDI for cloud platform, Teradata (TDC) delivers SAS high performance analytics appliance.
Riverbed (RVBD) deepens involvement in OpenStack, Cerner (CERN) picks Oracle (ORCL) for cloud services, Interxion launches cloud test lab in London, flywheel company Beacon Power files for bankruptcy.
At OpenWorld 2011 in San Francisco, Oracle continued the stream of announcements and focused on the cloud, launching its public cloud and making Oracle applications available in the cloud.
When Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems, it also acquired the Java development platform. On Day 2 of its OpenWorld conference, Oracle (ORCL) announced JavaFX 2.0 and its plans to move Java forward and continue investment in mobile platforms.