Later this year, Oracle will begin requiring people interested in gaining Java and Solaris certifications to attend “hands-on” training courses, at an additional cost of thousands of dollars.

where executives will outline Oracle’s strategy for absorbing Sun, including details about product road maps, Oracle said in a statement. The event, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Pacific Time ...

observers will be looking to hear how Oracle will position MySQL, the open-source database that was the subject of concern by the European Commission and the open-source community and Java.