
Use spare computer time to help research black holes
Simulate a black hole in your PC
West Virginia University assistant professor Zachariah Etienne is launching " a volunteer computing effort" analysing gravitational waves from colliding black holes.

Pentagon snubs Oracle
Rubbish for Jedi you are
The Pentagon has snubbed Oracle for its $10 billion, decade-long JEDI cloud contract process and chosen Amazon and Microsoft instead.

Complexity could derail cloud
Microservices network and app management technologies needed
The cloud's complex infrastructure is derailing application platforms and cloud-native services market and there is a need for microservices network and app management technologies.

SAP cloud boss quits
More exits at SAP
The maker of expensive esoteric business software which no one is sure what it does, SAP, appears to be having trouble keeping senior managers.

So happy to get shot of it
Amazon employees working in fulfilment teams which handle inventory and shipping at the online retail giant have opened the champers after getting Oracle off their company servers.