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EnterpriseAppsToday: Oracle is now fully supporting open source R (so long as you pay them $).

Phoronix: Btrfs, the quite promising next-generation Linux file-system that's been in-development for years by Chris Mason and others, is about to take on a big role within Oracle's Enterprise Linux distribution.

InfoWorld: "Oracle, which officially took on the big job of shepherding Java two years ago this month, is traveling bumpy roads lately, with its modularization and licensing plans for Java raising eyebrows and security concerns coming to the fore as well."

Oracle stunned analysts late Tuesday when it reported that the $8.8 billion in sales for the quarter ending Nov. 30 grew by only 2 percent, way off the 5 to 9 percent projected growth based on the company's guidance and analyst estimates.

EnterpriseStorageForum: "ZFS, of course, came into the Oracle fold courtesy of its acquisition of Sun Microsystems."

Google's BigQuery service promises high-speed data analysis, posing a challenge to IBM, Oracle and others.

At its OpenWorld conference in San Francisco earlier this month, Oracle signaled it plans to become more aggressive in building a portfolio of cloud-based platforms and services.

The H Open: "The LibreOffice fork didn't come out of nowhere. The Document Foundation (TDF) was launched as an independent community-driven entity in September 2010 to revive the development of OpenOffice.org, which had been stifled by years of bureaucracy from Sun and neglect by Oracle."

InternetNews: Goodbye Steve Jobs - and Oracle doesn't want to check into the roach-motel.

Datamation:Oracle doesn't really want its Intel business to go to zero, despite comments made by Larry Ellison last week.