He said Java developer Oracle had released its own fix at the beginning of the month after having discovered exploits that were "in the wild" - a term given to vulnerabilities being used by hackers.

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Now Cisco is showcasing Lew Tucker, a well-known veteran of developer work at both Salesforce and the pre-Oracle Sun Microsystems, who came on as cloud CTO in the middle of this year.

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Oracle mushroomed in the client-server business, with sales executives sometimes throwing free developer databases from helicopters to crowds of independent allies.

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