The expanded relationship with Oracle is another step for ARM as it looks to move its low-power chip designs into the data center.

ARM this week announced that it's inked a multi-year contract with Oracle to further optimize the existing Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) for ARM 32-bit platforms and also to add Java ...

ARM and Oracle have agreed to further co-development of ARM 32-bit processors for Java and to add Java support for ARM’s 64-bit processors. “The industry has reached a significant inflection point as ...

Oracle said it was working on a version of Java Standard Edition for the 64-bit ARM architecture, though it didn’t give a time frame.

Oracle released a developer edition of the Oracle9i Database for Intel Itanium processors that supports several platforms including Windows XP Professional 64-bit Edition and Windows .NET ...

That’s the mass market, where Oracle is trying to compete better [by offering its database on Linux], and where Microsoft is trying to move up with 64-bit SQL Server.

There are three key plugins that need to offer 64-bit versions before mainstream users can switch. In order of least important to most important, these are: Silverlight, Java, and Flash.