By Oracle News Desk Northern California Power Agency announced an innovative use of Oracle XML DB, a feature of Oracle Database 11g that provides high-performance XML storage and retrieval, to manage the very large and complex power settlements data that every California electric utility will receive star... Dec. 19, 2007 12:00 PM EST Reads: 3,656 |
By Oracle News Desk Applimation, Inc. announced today that it has been selected by Silgan Plastics Corporation to improve the performance of its Oracle E-Business Suite applications. Silgan Plastics Corporation selected Applimation Informia Archive to improve the production environment performance of its ... Dec. 19, 2007 12:00 PM EST Reads: 4,182 |
By Oracle News Desk OSI Consulting, Inc. announced that The RoomPlace at Harlem Furniture has selected Oracle E-Business Suite solutions with OSI Consulting retained as the implementation and integration partner. Leveraging Oracle's E-Business Suite, The RoomPlace expects improved functionality and integr... Dec. 19, 2007 12:00 PM EST Reads: 4,874 |
By Oracle News Desk Application Lynx is pleased to announce that in partnership with Maxima, it has completed one of the first successful UK implementations of the Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 on a Microsoft Windows platform using Oracle Accelerate. Driven by the Oracle Accelerate solution program, ... Dec. 19, 2007 12:00 PM EST Reads: 3,842 |
By Oracle News Desk Egenera Inc. announced that Quantros has chosen Egenera for its mission critical Oracle 10g Real Application Clusters (RAC) deployment. Quantros' web-based applications improve the quality of patient care by providing a standard platform for automating resource intensive and manual pro... Dec. 19, 2007 11:00 AM EST Reads: 4,031 |
By Oracle News Desk Oracle announced that Oracle Application Server 10g Release 3, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, together with Oracle Database and Oracle Real Application Clusters, running on HP Integrity server blades and HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Arrays, delivered world record cluste... Dec. 19, 2007 09:15 AM EST Reads: 3,756 |
By Oracle News Desk Ecora Software announced expanded enhancements to Ecora Auditor Professional that further extend its automated collection and reporting capabilities to include the newest generation of devices and operating systems being installed in enterprise environments. Ecora's Auditor Pro include... Dec. 17, 2007 11:45 AM EST Reads: 5,201 |
By Oracle News Desk SteelEye Technology announced that Oracle Enterprise Linux joins Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Asianux as supported Linux operating platforms for SteelEye, LifeKeeper, and SteelEye Data Replication. SteelEye Data Replication for Linux leverages open ... Dec. 17, 2007 11:45 AM EST Reads: 5,791 |
By Oracle News Desk NetSuite recently disclosed that Larry's 60% majority interest in the company is going to be stowed in a lockbox over which he has no personal control to deflect any talk of conflict of interest. See, NetSuite is considered a potential competitor of Oracle and is also an Oracle custome... Dec. 9, 2007 10:00 PM EST Reads: 4,969 |
By Oracle News Desk Oracle announced Oracle VM, server virtualization software which supports both Oracle and non-Oracle applications. Oracle VM offers scalable, low-cost server virtualization that is more efficient than existing products from other vendors. Key Oracle products including Oracle Database, ... Nov. 28, 2007 06:45 PM EST Reads: 6,209 |
By Oracle News Desk BakBone Software, a member of the Oracle PartnerNetwork, announced that BakBone NetVault: Backup is now certified on Oracle Enterprise Linux. Increased customer demand for Linux is driving the adoption of Linux-based applications and databases, making the need for enterprise-class Linu... Nov. 26, 2007 11:45 AM EST Reads: 7,229 |
By Oracle News Desk Marc Fleury - who started JBoss in the early 2000, sold it in 2006 and is now retired - has been commenting on Oracle's $6.6BN bid for BEA Systems. 'The combination just makes sense from most angles I can think of,' he writes. Of Alfred Chuang, BEA's current CEO, he predicts: 'It is go... Nov. 17, 2007 12:30 PM EST Reads: 27,251 Replies: 2 |
By Oracle News Desk 'Oracle is prepared to proceed immediately,' says the official letter delivered today to the Board of Directors of BEA by Oracle, which is proposing to acquire BEA for $17.00 per share in cash - a 25% premium over yesterday's closing price of $13.62. 'We have made a serious proposal in... Nov. 17, 2007 12:30 PM EST Reads: 26,074 |
By Oracle News Desk  Dana Gardner says: 'Someone had to pull the trigger, and few companies could better leverage and extend the value of BEA than...Oracle.' In addition to Gardner, read what Om Malik, Eric Savitz, Ray Wang, Jeff Nolan, Jason Bell and Curt Monash think...here's what the industry is saying ... Nov. 17, 2007 12:30 PM EST Reads: 26,381 Replies: 5 |
By Oracle News Desk Today's SOA practitioners find their greatest architecture challenges addressing reliability and scalability for composite applications and processing large XML payloads. This session presents a breakthrough design for SOAs that deliver continuous availability and predictable scalabili... Nov. 17, 2007 12:30 PM EST Reads: 13,231 Replies: 1 |
By Oracle News Desk  'Our continuing support commitment has been amply demonstrated with all of our previous acquisitions, including PeopleSoft and Siebel. BEA will be no different,' he said. 'The acquisition of BEA by Oracle will enable an increase in engineering resources that will in turn accelerate the... Nov. 17, 2007 12:30 PM EST Reads: 20,205 Replies: 1 |
By Oracle News Desk Oracle is open sourcing a Call Interface (OC18) database driver for PHP, describing it as bringing 'breakthrough scalability to PHP applications' and enhancing it as a viable development environment for mission-critical applications. The driver, it said, supports Oracle Database 11g fe... Nov. 17, 2007 12:30 PM EST Reads: 11,569 |
By Oracle News Desk The convergence of Web 2.0 mashups and service-oriented architecture - a.k.a. the Enterprise Mashup - can create a world of opportunities for enterprises to come up with internal and customer-facing self-service, composite and 'situational' applications. These applications can be creat... Nov. 17, 2007 12:30 PM EST Reads: 12,513 |
By Oracle News Desk  BEA's Board of Directors is unlikely to accept Oracle's offer of $17 a share by Sunday, when the Oracle-set deadline for acceptance expires. It says that it would only be willing to begin discussing a sale of the company if the offer price were $21 per share. BEA is maintaining its pos... Nov. 17, 2007 12:15 PM EST Reads: 24,416 Replies: 5 |
By Oracle News Desk  Former JBoss maestro Marc Fleury has been considering the contenders in any race to counter-bid for BEA in the face of Oracle's $6.6BN bid. His conclusion: Most of the big players would be better off buying Red Hat. 'Red Hat is a better, and potentially cheaper, option for many of the ... Nov. 17, 2007 12:15 PM EST Reads: 19,920 Replies: 1 |
By Oracle News Desk It's unclear where BEA is going to run and hide to avoid a shotgun wedding, but its board late Friday rejected Oracle's $6.66 billion marriage proposal. In a letter to Oracle that the board made public it expressed irritation that Oracle had made its wooing known and rated Oracle's $17... Nov. 17, 2007 12:15 PM EST Reads: 17,196 |
By Oracle News Desk  In the view of Rob Hailstone, Software Infrastructure Practice Director with IT research and advisory organization Butler Group, the combination of HP and BEA, if executed well, would create a significant force in the industry. BEA has been very successful in partnering with HP, Hailst... Nov. 17, 2007 12:15 PM EST Reads: 20,873 Replies: 2 |
By Oracle News Desk  Carl Icahn, BEA's biggest shareholder with approx 15% of its stock, has told a reporter that it is 'insane' for the company to reject out of hand Oracle's unsolicited bid. 'I'm not saying I accept $17,' Icahn told Reuters. 'It's going to be a three-month process.' BEA is insisting that... Nov. 17, 2007 12:15 PM EST Reads: 18,653 |
By Oracle News Desk  'BEA shareholders should not assume that Oracle will renew its $17 per share offer in the future,' thundered an announcement dispatched to the wires yesterday by Oracle just hours after the lapse of its 5PM Pacific Time deadline for the acceptance by BEA shareholders of its $6.7BN unso... Nov. 17, 2007 12:15 PM EST Reads: 18,388 Replies: 3 |
By Oracle News Desk After playing coy for a couple of weeks BEA came out Thursday and told Oracle what its price is: a probably unrealistic $21 a share, a number close to $8.2 billion rounding up, roughly $1.6 billion more than Oracle has offered. Oracle, meanwhile, has already threatened to withdraw its ... Nov. 17, 2007 12:15 PM EST Reads: 11,075 |
By Oracle News Desk Hmmm. Oracle may be having a problem with its vaunted next-generation Project Fusion meant to lash all the software it's acquired together with its homegrown stuff. Seems the guy running Fusion, senior VP John Wookey, is being replaced by Thomas Kurian, head of Oracle's middleware oper... Nov. 17, 2007 12:15 PM EST Reads: 7,695 Replies: 1 |
By Oracle News Desk  November 15, BEA will report its financial results for the third quarter, with investors having the opportunity to listen to its financial results conference call over the Internet. Both Larry Ellison and Carl Icahn will doubtless be waiting with considerable interest. Ellison wants to... Nov. 17, 2007 12:15 PM EST Reads: 18,472 |
By Oracle News Desk JackBe has announced enterprise mashup support for Oracle Fusion Middleware. JackBe's enterprise mashup platform - Presto, a family of products for enterprise mashup solutions that combines SOA and AJAX into enterprise mashups and rich Internet applications - allows users to create dyn... Nov. 17, 2007 12:00 PM EST Reads: 10,767 |
By Oracle News Desk Reuters thought to call Tom Hogan, the head of HP Software, and ask him whether HP, whose own adventure into web servers was a disaster, was interested in buying BEA. Tom said no. HP has relationships with BEA's rivals on behalf of its management software and wants to remain 'the Switz... Nov. 17, 2007 12:00 PM EST Reads: 6,347 |
By Oracle News Desk Amway Corporation selected a virtualized IBM server infrastructure for a worldwide rollout of Oracle's enterprise resource planning applications. The decision to run the applications on hundreds of virtual servers, rather than an equivalent number of physical boxes, is expected to prov... Nov. 17, 2007 12:00 PM EST Reads: 4,802 |
By Oracle News Desk Launched at Oracle OpenWorld, Oracle VM server virtualization software supports both Oracle and non-Oracle applications. Oracle VM offers scalable, low-cost server virtualization that is up to three times more efficient than existing products from other vendors. Key Oracle products inc... Nov. 17, 2007 12:00 PM EST Reads: 7,143 |
By Oracle News Desk  'If we made another offer, the price would be lower,' Oracle's Larry Ellison told those who gathered last night at Oracle's annual financial analyst meeting in San Francisco. 'Clearly the $17 price seems too high now,' Ellison warned, in what those there were quick to characterized as ... Nov. 17, 2007 12:00 PM EST Reads: 10,034 |
By Oracle News Desk Oracle has announced Oracle VM, server virtualization software that supports both Oracle and non-Oracle applications. Key Oracle products including Oracle Database, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Applications are certified with Oracle VM. Customers have a single point of support f... Nov. 12, 2007 06:30 PM EST Reads: 5,344 |
By Oracle News Desk Today's SOA practitioners find their greatest architecture challenges addressing reliability and scalability for composite applications and processing large XML payloads. This session presents a breakthrough design for SOAs that deliver continuous availability and predictable scalabili... Nov. 8, 2007 12:00 PM EST Reads: 6,716 |
By Oracle News Desk The convergence of Web 2.0 mashups and service-oriented architecture -- a.k.a. the Enterprise Mashup -- can create a world of opportunities for enterprises to come up with internal and customer-facing self-service, composite and 'situational' applications. These applications can be cre... Nov. 8, 2007 12:00 PM EST Reads: 6,342 |
By Oracle News Desk Ted Farrell, chief architect for Tools and Middleware at Oracle, gave the opening keynote at AJAXWorld Conference Expo 2007 West this morning. The next-generation, Web 2.0 user experience, he noted, is as much about empowering users with state-of-the-art social networking tools as it i... Sep. 24, 2007 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 9,935 |
By Oracle News Desk  The company came in with Q1 earnings up 25% to $840 million, or 16 cents a share, on revenues up 26% to $4.5 billion during a season, ending in August, that's generally its weakest, landing pretty much where Wall Street expected it to. Software revenues were up 26% to $3.5 billion with... Sep. 23, 2007 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 13,333 Replies: 1 |
By Oracle News Desk  Oracle earned $840M for the three months ended Aug. 31, a massive a 25% improvement from net income of $670M in the same period last year. That is the company's biggest increase in software sales since the dot-com bust. Sep. 21, 2007 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 14,160 Replies: 1 |
By Oracle News Desk The enhanced Oracle Business Process Analysis Suite, featuring unique closed-loop support to improve collaboration between business analysts and IT, supports the latest BPMN and BPEL standards and more closely aligns business and IT users, leading to greater productivity, operational e... Sep. 19, 2007 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 9,074 |
By Oracle News Desk  Traditional business models have focused on a process and interaction model that hasn't changed for over 100 years. With the injection of some new Web 2.0 technologies like social networks, tagging, page sharing, linking, and rich user experiences, these business models are finally tap... Sep. 17, 2007 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 10,270 Replies: 1 |
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