Oracle Unveils New
Version Of Open Source
Database By Oracle News Desk Oracle announced the
general availability of
Oracle Berkeley DB
Release 4.5, which
includes new features
that greatly improve
performance, availability
and ease-of-use for
developers of
mission-critical systems.
Oracle Berkeley DB
Release 4.5 now supports
multi-... Sep. 29, 2006 09:00 AM Reads: 4,763 Replies: 3 |
Oracle & SAP Trade Barbs
after Oracle Posts Q1
Results By Oracle News Desk Oracle got to pull SAP's
nose and its boss Larry
Ellison got to look right
about his consolidation
strategy when the company
posted its latest results
Tuesday. In its first
fiscal quarter ended
August 31, usually never
its best time, earnings
shot up 29%
year-over... Sep. 23, 2006 09:30 PM Reads: 6,554 Replies: 1 |
Wannabe Oracle Buster
Sharpens Its Weapons By Oracle News Desk  EnterpriseDB, the
start-up commercializing
PostgreSQL, upped the
ante against Oracle's pat
hand at LinuxWorld this
week when it announced
the general availability
of EnterpriseDB Advanced
Server 8.1. The rev
automates the migration
of data and business
logic from ... Aug. 19, 2006 03:30 PM Reads: 7,489 Replies: 1 |
Oracle Enhances Oracle
Validated Configurations
To Help Deploy Linux
Faster By Oracle News Desk Oracle announced the
expansion of its Oracle
Validated Configurations
effort with the addition
of new configurations and
partners - Brocade, Cisco
Systems and Pillar Data
Systems. Now, customers
will have access to a
broader range of
pre-tested and validated
archi... Aug. 19, 2006 07:00 AM Reads: 4,569 Replies: 1 |
Oracle Connects with
Microsoft Visual Studio
with .NET Tools By Oracle News Desk 'Delivering deeper
integration between the
Oracle Database and the
Windows platform is a
priority,' said Andy
Mendelsohn, senior vice
president of Database
Server Technologies,
Oracle. 'Our continuing
investment in these
developer tools
reinforces our commitment
... Aug. 2, 2006 11:30 AM Reads: 7,563 Replies: 1 |
Open Source Firm Unicon
And Oracle Partner By Oracle News Desk Oracle announced that it
has entered into a
strategic alliance with
Unicon, a provider of
enterprise portal,
learning, and integration
technology for higher
education institutions,
in connection with the
delivery and support of a
next-generation academic
enterpris... Aug. 2, 2006 06:00 AM Reads: 4,724 Replies: 1 |
Enterprise Open Source
News: Oracle to Close
Acquisition of Portal
Software By Oracle News Desk Oracle has announced that
it will complete its
acquisition of Portal
Software, a worldwide
provider of billing and
Revenue Management
solutions for the global
communications and media
markets, immediately and
is moving ahead quickly
with the integration of
the two companies. Jul. 5, 2006 10:30 AM Reads: 4,108 |
Enterprise Open Source
News: Oracle Integrates
Oracle's Siebel Insurance
and Oracle Content
Database By Oracle News Desk Oracle has announced the
integration of its Siebel
Insurance applications
with Oracle Content
Database, enabling
insurance companies to
streamline core insurance
processes, such as policy
issuance and claims
management, as well as
improve customer service. Jul. 3, 2006 09:30 PM Reads: 5,558 |
SOA Web Services: Oracle
Portal in Leaders
Quadrant for Horizontal
Portals By Oracle News Desk Oracle has announced that
Oracle Portal 10g, a
component of Oracle
Fusion Middleware, has
been positioned in the
Leaders Quadrant of the
2006 Gartner Horizontal
Portal Products Magic
Quadrant. According to
Gartner, demand for
horizontal portal
products remains str... Jun. 27, 2006 04:30 PM Reads: 9,147 Replies: 2 |
Oracle Unveils
Event-Driven Middleware
Suite: Next-Generation of
SOA By Oracle News Desk Oracle has announced
immediate availability of
the industry's first
integrated,
standards-based product
offering to help
organizations build,
deploy and manage
event-driven
applications, based on an
Event-Driven Architecture
(EDA). Oracle
Event-Driven Architectu... Jun. 27, 2006 04:15 PM Reads: 12,515 Replies: 4 |
Ellison Continues to Talk
About Oracle Linux Move By Oracle News Desk Observing that Linux is
free to anybody and that
the current Linux
distributions don't own
their IP, Oracle CEO
Larry Ellison said that
Oracle could just go and
take Linux, and support
it better than anyone
else and become the
'number one distributor.'
'And we may... Jun. 24, 2006 12:00 PM Reads: 5,247 Replies: 3 |
Oracle Research Shows
Importance of SOA By Oracle News Desk Oracle has unveiled the
fourth Oracle Grid Index,
which charts the global
adoption of Grid
Computing and
investigates related
technological issues and
their implications for
the business world. The
latest research confirmed
that Grid Computing is a
maturing techno... Jun. 22, 2006 09:45 AM Reads: 9,735 Replies: 1 |
Oracle Unveils SOA 2.0
Event-Driven Middleware
Suite By Oracle News Desk Oracle announced
immediate availability of
the industry's first
integrated,
standards-based product
offering to help
organizations build,
deploy and manage
event-driven
applications, based on an
Event-Driven Architecture
(EDA). EDA is a key
component of SOA 2.0,... Jun. 20, 2006 06:00 AM Reads: 5,410 Replies: 1 |
SEO/SEM Journal: Oracle
Buys Telephony@Work By Oracle News Desk Oracle has announced that
it is expanding its CRM
On Demand offerings with
the acquisition of
Telephony@Work, a
provider of IP-based
software infrastructure
for hosted contact center
services.
Telephony@Work's
CallCenterAnywhere is a
carrier-grade,
multi-channel... Jun. 18, 2006 02:00 AM Reads: 9,848 |
Oracle Announces Content
Management Strategy For
SOA By Oracle News Desk Oracle Content Database
and Oracle Records
Database deliver a
complete solution for
managing a wide range of
diverse content and
metadata in a single
database. Because both
products are built using
open standards, they
enable customers, Systems
Integrators and
I... Jun. 15, 2006 06:30 PM Reads: 4,812 Replies: 2 |
Oracle's Next-Generation
Content Management
Strategy for Enterprises By Oracle News Desk In an event hosted by
Oracle President, Charles
Phillips, Oracle unveiled
plans to help customers
and partners more easily
control, secure and
manage large volumes of
unstructured content.
With Oracle Content
Database and Oracle
Records Database,
organizations can... Jun. 15, 2006 02:15 PM Reads: 10,491 |
Oracle Validated
Configurations Offer
Faster Linux Deployment By Oracle News Desk Oracle has announced the
Oracle Validated
Configurations program,
providing customers with
pre-tested, validated and
supported architectures
-- software, hardware,
storage and networking
components -- for
successfully deploying
Oracle solutions on
Linux. Jun. 13, 2006 10:30 AM Reads: 3,737 Replies: 1 |
Oracle Outlining AJAX and
SOA 2.0 Vision By Oracle News Desk With SOA 2.0, an
event-driven architecture
is deployed in which
software modules are
related to business
components, and alerts
and event notifications
are featured. The initial
SOA concept has not been
event-driven but,
instead, has featured
direct calls from one... Jun. 1, 2006 12:00 PM Reads: 7,409 Replies: 2 |
Oracle to Open Source
AJAX By Oracle News Desk Oracle said it would
develop and donate a set
of AJAX-enabled
next-generation rich user
interface components to
the open source community
in the next few months.
It's already given
100-odd Application
Development Framework
(ADF) Faces components to
Apache's MyFace... May. 26, 2006 04:30 PM Reads: 4,442 |
Mutual of Enumclaw Uses
Oracle Database 10g on
SUSE Linux Enterprise
Server By Oracle News Desk Oracle has announced that
Mutual of Enumclaw
Insurance Company, a
mutual company that
provides a broad array of
insurance products and
services, is using the
powerful combination of
Oracle Database 10g on
Linux to achieve a
tenfold increase in
performance while
... May. 24, 2006 04:45 PM Reads: 4,397 Replies: 1 |
Iron Age Shoes Transforms
Business With Oracle's
Java-Based Software Suite By Oracle News Desk Oracle announced that
Iron Age Shoes has
implemented the Oracle
E-Business Suite,
including Oracle
Financials, Oracle
Advanced Procurement and
Oracle Inventory, Oracle
Warehouse Management and
Oracle Order Management.
Oracle's Java- and
standards-based software
... May. 24, 2006 01:45 PM Reads: 6,181 Replies: 2 |
Novell Trains Oracle
Consultants on SuSe Linux
Enterprise Server By Oracle News Desk Novell recently delivered
five-day training classes
to 15 Oracle Consultants,
at Oracle local offices,
Amman - Jordan, and
prepared them to become
certified Linux
professionals - a key to
delivering quality Linux
technical support to the
market. May. 18, 2006 04:45 PM Reads: 3,609 Replies: 1 |
Oracle Unveils Reference
Implementation for Java
Persistence Architecture
in Open Source By Oracle News Desk Oracle has announced the
industry's first
compliant implementation
of the Java Persistence
API (JPA), TopLink
Essentials. Oracle, along
with Sun, was the EJB 3.0
specification co-lead and
delivered the JPA as part
of the specification. May. 18, 2006 11:00 AM Reads: 3,558 |
JavaOne 2006: Oracle
Offers Open Source
Berkeley DB Java Edition
3.0 By Oracle News Desk Oracle has announced
general availability of
its Berkeley DB Java
Edition Release 3.0. This
is the third major
release in three years of
the pure Java embeddable
database, and plays a
role in the company's
ongoing and evolving
open-source strategy. May. 17, 2006 06:45 PM Reads: 3,400 Replies: 1 |
JavaOne 2006: Oracle
Offers Open Source Java
Persistence API By Oracle News Desk TopLink Essentials is the
official open source
reference implementation
for the Java Platform,
Enterprise Edition 5
Software Development Kit
(Java EE 5 SDK) and is
also available from
Oracle as a standalone
implementation. May. 16, 2006 09:15 PM Reads: 3,229 |
Oracle Backs Java EE AJAX
Announcement By Oracle News Desk Oracle is among the
vendors and licensees
backing approval of the
Java Platform, Enterprise
Edition (Java EE) 5 spec
by the Java Community
Process. Sun is calling
Java EE 5 'the most
significant update of the
programming model to the
Enterprise Java
development pl... May. 10, 2006 10:00 AM Reads: 4,704 |
Open Source Database
Company, EnterpriseDB
Introduces Automated
Migration Of Oracle
Databases By Oracle News Desk EnterpriseDB,open source
database company,
announced at COLLABORATE
06, the industry's
largest event for the
Oracle user community,
the beta release of
Update 1 to EnterpriseDB
Advanced Server 8.1.
Adding to the product's
existing ability to run
applications writt... May. 3, 2006 10:45 AM Reads: 4,350 |
Sybase's Rick Linden
Reaches Out to Oracle
Customers By Oracle News Desk  Rick Linden, senior
product manager at
Sybase, spoke with
SYS-CON about the
company's Mirror
Activator for Oracle
product announcement at
EMC World in Boston.
Sybase is touting several
technical benefits to
this approach, which
addresses issues such as
failover ... May. 1, 2006 03:00 PM Reads: 8,783 |
"Why I Didn't Buy JBoss,"
By Oracle CEO Larry
Ellison By Oracle News Desk When Richard Waters of
the Financial Times
interviewed Larry Ellison
- the chief executive
officer of Oracle - last
week, what caught
people's attention most
was where Ellison talked
about having looked at
buying Novell and at Red
Hat. But there's another
gem in t... Apr. 22, 2006 04:00 AM Reads: 14,859 Replies: 4 |
Oracle Unveils Plans For
Service Delivery Platform
For Telecom Industry By Oracle News Desk Oracle outlined its
roadmap for a
comprehensive,
standards-based Service
Delivery Platform (SDP)
for the
telecommunications
industry. The new Oracle
SDP is being designed to
enable communication
service providers,
network operators and
system integrators to
ev... Apr. 19, 2006 11:00 AM Reads: 5,210 Replies: 1 |
Oracle Is "Missing an
Operating System," Says
Larry Ellison As He
Contemplates an Oracle
Linux Distro By Oracle News Desk Hard on the heels of the
Red Hat-JBoss acquisition
announcement, which makes
Red Hat a competititor in
the middleware space,
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison
has been contemplating an
aggressive Oracle move
within the Linux market.
'I don't think Oracle
[wants] another Micr... Apr. 18, 2006 02:15 PM Reads: 13,340 Replies: 3 |
Oracle Supports AJAX With
Updated Fusion Middleware By Oracle News Desk  Oracle VP Ted Farrell
recently spoke to SYS-CON
in an exclusive recorded
interview about the
company's emerging AJAX
strategy. In a follow-up,
he answered some
questions about the
company's JDeveloper
Release 3, which supports
AJAX. Apr. 12, 2006 04:00 PM Reads: 9,723 Replies: 4 |
Oracle Exec Ted Farrell
Outlines Oracle Open AJAX
Strategy By Oracle News Desk  Oracle was among the
truly big technology
companies announced as
original supporters of
the Open AJAX initiative.
Yet this is a grassroots
effort, explains Ted
Farrell in an exclusive
interview. Apr. 12, 2006 09:00 AM Reads: 22,652 |
Oracle's Ashish Mohindroo
on BPEL, BAM, and Fusion
Middleware By Oracle News Desk  Oracle Senior Product
Director Ashish Mohindroo
spoke to SYS-CON.TV in an
exclusive interview about
some new customer wins
for Oracle's Fusion
Middleware,
particularlyin the BPEL
Process Manager and
Business Activity
Monitoring (BAM) spaces.
He reviews three
cus... Apr. 10, 2006 05:00 PM Reads: 14,298 |
Oracle Fusion Middleware
Experiences Impressive
Growth on Linux By Oracle News Desk Oracle announced ongoing
momentum with
organizations deploying
Oracle Fusion Middleware
on Linux. Oracle Fusion
Middleware, the company's
comprehensive,
standards-based family of
middleware products is
experiencing exceptional
growth with an increasing
number of o... Apr. 7, 2006 01:00 PM Reads: 7,888 Replies: 1 |
Oracle Database Lite 10g
Available for Symbian OS
Phones By Oracle News Desk To ensure that mobile
workers have access to
critical corporate data
whenever and wherever
they need it, Oracle
announced the general
availability of Oracle
Database Lite 10g Release
2 for Symbian OS, the
mobile operating system
that powers today's most
popular sm... Apr. 7, 2006 12:00 PM Reads: 12,846 Replies: 1 |
Oracle's SOA Fusion
Middleware Software Hits
Milestone By Oracle News Desk Oracle Business
Intelligence Suite comes
in three editions.
Enterprise Edition
integrates technology
from Siebel Business
Analytics with Oracle's
existing BI and
middleware technology to
offer an enterprise-wide
BI infrastructure and
tools. Standard Edition
offe... Mar. 25, 2006 03:00 PM Reads: 6,872 Replies: 1 |
Quest Software to Deliver
Graphical Root-Cause
Diagnostics for Oracle
RAC IT Application By Oracle News Desk  Quest Software announced
today version 1.0 of
Quest Spotlight on Oracle
RAC, the newest extension
of Quest Software's
patented Spotlight
product family.
Spotlight on Oracle RAC
is the first product
available to provide a
graphical view on the
internal performance... Mar. 17, 2006 03:15 PM Reads: 11,072 Replies: 2 |
Oracle's Java-Based
360Commerce Retail
Solutions Wins IBM
PartnerWorld Beacon Award By Oracle News Desk Oracle's 360Commerce
Retail Solutions have
been named winner of the
'IBM Best Retail Store
Solution' award in the
annual IBM PartnerWorld
Beacon Awards
competition. The award
honors IBM Business
Partners for innovation,
customer satisfaction and
outstanding achiev... Mar. 8, 2006 12:45 AM Reads: 5,410 Replies: 1 |
PHP Company Zend
Announces Update Of Zend
Core For Oracle By Oracle News Desk Zend Technologies, the
PHP company, has
announced an updated
version of Zend Core for
Oracle, which supports
businesses using PHP for
mission-critical Web
applications by
delivering a reliable,
high performance,
easy-to-install PHP
development and
production env... Mar. 7, 2006 10:45 PM Reads: 5,607 Replies: 1 |
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