Larry Ellison kicks off OpenWorld. Photo: Oracle/Flickr

“A lot of people said we were going to get out of the hardware business when we bought Sun,” Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said on Sunday during the opening keynote at the company’s massive OpenWorld conference in San Francisco. “But I guess we didn’t get the memo.”

The overarching theme for this week’s show is “Hardware and Software: Engineered to Work Together,” and Ellison drove the point home time and again during his keynote, painting his company as a kind of Apple for the enterprise. Last week, Oracle introduced new hardware based on the S...

The United States, Australia, Canada, Japan, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore and South Korea signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement on Saturday, an accord targeting intellectual property piracy.

The European Union, Mexico and Switzerland — the only other governments participating in the accord’s creation — did not sign the deal at a ceremony in Japan but “confirmed their continuing strong support for and preparations to sign the agreement as soon as practical,” the parties said in a joint statement.

The United States applauded the deal.

“As with many of the challenges we face in today’s g...