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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 Independent Software Vend...
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 manage the full infor...
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.
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 piece of software to ...
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 MyFaces components. What it'...
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 significantly reducing i...
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 suite was selected as th...
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.
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.
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.
Oracle has donated more than 100 Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF) Faces components to the Apache MyFaces project. Oracle also announced plans to augment this donation by contributing its next generation Asynchronous Javascript And XML (AJAX) user interface technology to t...
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.
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 platform since the launc...
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 written for Oracle, the new...
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 and compliance in intens...
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 the interview: Ellison ...
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 evolve current silo-based ne...
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 Microsoft in Red Hat,' s...
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.
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.
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 customers in varying market...
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 organizations choosing ...
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 smartphones. Oracle has ...
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 offers pre-integrated BI inf...
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 of Oracle Real Applic...
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 achievements in providing on...
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 environment fully integrate...
Oracle and HP have increased their commitment to HP Integrity servers running Oracle software, thereby helping enterprises optimise their business operations. HP is extending Oracle Fusion Middleware into its worldwide competency centres to assist customers in planning, designing, impl...
Oracle has announced Oracle Secure Enterprise Search 10g, a comprehensive, standalone search engine that enables customers to make critical business information available to authorized users while enforcing corporate security policies.
Oracle was among the truly big technology companies announced as original supporters of the Open AJAX initiative. Yet this is a grassroots effort, involving company's of many sizes, each making their own unique contributions to the cause, explains Ted Farrell in an exclusive interview.
Oracle has added Berkeley DB to its embedded database product line which includes Oracle Lite for mobile devices and Oracle TimesTen for high performance in-memory database applications. 'Sleepycat's products enhance Oracle's market-leading database product family by offering enterpris...
JDJ News Desk broke Oracle's JBoss acquisition rumors on Thursday, January 26, 2006. According to our sources, Oracle may officially announce its JBoss acquisition as early as Monday, February 13, before the markets open. This exclusive JDJ News Desk story can be read here.
During the recent Sun / Oracle Town Hall Meeting, which was broadcast live by SYS-CON.TV from the Auditorium at Oracle Headquarters, Scott McNealy's first question to Larry Ellison was, 'So Larry, everybody here wants to know, right up front so we can take this off the table, get the b...
The year 2005 represented 'a breakthrough year' for Oracle Fusion Middleware, the company says. Aimed to simplify the development, deployment, integration and management of applications, the software experienced many 'firsts' over the past year, according to Oracle, including first to ...
Oracle announced the availability of the Oracle SOA Suite, a comprehensive standards-based hot-pluggable set of middleware products that enables organizations to SOA-enable their IT environment without an expensive rip-and-replace project. The Suite consists of a BPEL Process manager, ...
Larry Ellison seemed firmly in control at a recent 'Town Hall' meeting with Scott McNealy. Meanwhile, the future of Java is being debated, and at least one industry pundit did not like the Consumer Electronics Show's recent emergence as the center of all attention in the IT industry.
Partners for more than 20 years, Sun and Oracle renewed their relationship during a press conference hosted by Sun CEO Scott McNealy and Oracle CEO Larry Ellison at Oracle's headquarters and stated that they will continue to work closely for at least the next 10 years. The companies ha...
Ingres Corporationt has filled three positions: James J. Finn, senior vice president and Chief Communications Officer; Kristin Hollins, vice president of Executive and Product Communications; and Robert Swadosh, vice president of Strategic Communications. Two of the new executives prev...
Oracle and Forum aim at conducting an Online webinar sharing first-hand experience from market leaders on SOA, BPEL and Service-Oriented Security Solutions.
Responding to strong interest from Independent Software Vendors, Oracle has announced a series of seminars on Oracle Database 10g and Oracle Fusion Middleware 10g specifically tailored to the ISV community. Beginning in North America and moving into the EMEA, LAD and APAC regions in 20...