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Oracle has announced additions to its best-in-class identity management suite designed to meet the diverse needs of organizations across all industries. With the acquisition of Thor Technologies, a leading provider of cross-platform provisioning solutions and OctetString, a leading pro...
Oracle has announced that leading Independent Software Vendors and solution providers continue to show strong support for Oracle OLAP. AITG, arcplan, SolStonePlus and Vlamis, all members of the Oracle PartnerNetwork, are taking advantage of the embedded OLAP capabilities in Oracle Data...
Oracle has announced that Ohio Savings Bank's mortgage system, which processes hundreds of millions of dollars of transactions daily, relies on an integrated Oracle Database 10g and Microsoft .NET architecture. The bank adopted an Oracle Database 10g grid computing infrastructure to im...
HP and Oracle have announced three initiatives that dramatically increase integration, performance and availability of enterprise computing for customers. Oracle has selected HP as the key Itanium 2-based development partner to move Oracle9i Database onto the next generation of high-pe...
Oracle has announced that it won four Intelligent Enterprise 2005 Readers' Choice Awards, including 'Best Customer Data Integration Application,' 'Best Database Management System,' 'Best XML Database,' and 'Best Business Process Management System.'
Oracle has released a free edition of its database, but is being criticized by open-source database developers as not understanding open source and what it's all about.
Finally responding to the growing presence of free and open source databases in the small and mid-size segment, Oracle has made available the 10g Express Edition. The Oracle Web site is now offering Oracle Database 10g Express Edition Beta Release for download on Windows and Linux. Ora...
EnterpriseDB Corporation announced the availability of EnterpriseDB 2005 Release 2. EnterpriseDB 2005 is an enterprise-class database that is built on PostgreSQL, the world's most advanced open source database. EnterpriseDB 2005 features the ability to run many Oracle applications unmo...
Oracle has announced it is spearheading a project within the Eclipse open-source community to support the Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) 3.0 specification. This cornerstone for J2EE 5.0 will, with Oracle's support, 'significantly ease application development and improve developer producti...
These mergers are about money, not freedom or support of altruistic software goals. That should not surprise anyone after the way that Oracle pursued PeopleSoft.
Oracle and Zend have also introduced a beta version of Zend Core for Oracle that will run on a Windows environment including Windows XP Professional, Windows 2000 and Windows 2003. This product enables developers to easily run PHP web applications with Oracle Database on the Windows pl...
Oracle said it intends to continue developing the InnoDB technology and expand its commitment to open source software. Oracle has already contributed an open source clustered file system to Linux. It also said InnoDB was distributed under the GPL but has not pointed out that InnoDB's H...
To enable the secure transmission of critical business data to mobile workers, Oracle announced that Oracle Database Lite 10g Release 2 will support Symbian OS, the global open industry standard operating system installed on more than 39 million data-enabled mobile phones.
Oracle has announced the general availability of Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Release 6.0, marking the first product upgrade following the acquisition of TimesTen in June 2005. The release adds significant enhancements focused on major reases in caching performance and availabili...
Oracle Corporation has announced the acquisition of Finland-based Innobase OY. Innobase is the developer of discrete transactional database technology, InnoDB, that is distributed under an open source license. InnoDB is not a standalone database product: it is distributed as a part of ...
Andrew Mendelsohn, senior vice president of Oracle's server technologies division, has given a briefing to CNET in which he apparently says that a new low-end edition of Oracle's 10g database will be released by Oracle Tuesday, aimed squarely at free and open-source alternatives to Ora...
LinuxWorld 2005
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison wants the company to double in size, to nearly $30 billion in annual revenue over the next few years, according to remarks he made at the Oracle OpenWorld event in San Francisco. He said the company needs to continue to increase sales--and continue to acquire c...
CEO Larry Ellison delivered an ambitious 24-month roadmap of priorities for the nearly 35,000 attendees at Oracle OpenWorld San Francisco yesterday afternoon. From open standards and security to industry functionality, business intelligence and automation, Oracle has the scale to inves...
Oracle has announced the general availability of Oracle HTML DB Release 2.0, an Oracle Database 10g feature that enables customers to easily build, deploy and manage secure Web applications using only a Web browser.
Oracle announced what it calls a new record-breaking TPC-H three terabyte(TB) data warehousing benchmark for Oracle Database 10g Release 2.
Oracle has announced significant customer wins signed during the first quarter of its fiscal year 2006. Customers continue to choose Oracle software to integrate and automate business systems, help reduce total cost of ownership and create a single, global view of their business operat...
'With more and more market leading organizations and service providers deploying XML and Web services it is clear that the Service-Oriented Enterprise has arrived,' said Joel Silberman, vice president of ISV partnerships and business development at Crossbeam Systems, as it was announce...
In a move to reduce the ongoing cost of managing complex and increasingly heterogeneous enterprise application environments, EDS and Oracle announced plans to provide joint application management, hosting and modernization services. Expanding their long-standing partnership, the two co...
Oracle and IBM have reached agreement on an initiative to enable IBM's WebSphere products to be an additional run time environment for 'Project Fusion,' the Oracle engineering effort underway to fuse the 'best of' functionality across all Oracle applications into a single, standards-ba...
'The acquisition of G-Log will allow Oracle to offer a comprehensive supply chain and logistics management solution through which companies can better manage their global supply chains,' said Oracle Senior Vice President of Applications Development Rick Jewell as Oracle announced at Op...
Oracle announced at its OpenWorld event in San Francisco that 35 of the 50 largest companies in the world use Oracle Fusion Middleware to solve a variety of IT challenges for departmental and enterprise wide deployments. Auto Insurance Specialists (AIS), Consip, France 3, FTD, INRA, Po...
Oracle and Dell have announced at Oracle OpenWorld that the companies will extend their global distribution agreement for two additional years, and now enable Dell to resell Oracle applications, building on the success of their existing 3-year strategic alliance.
Oracle announced the introduction of the 'Hot-Pluggable' capabilities of its Oracle Fusion Middleware product family. These 'Hot-Pluggable' capabilities highlight the ability of its middleware platform to tightly integrate with other (non-Oracle) middleware products and databases as we...
Red Hat GFS is an open source cluster file system designed for high-performance enterprise workloads, such as Oracle RAC, web and application server clusters. GFS makes it possible to manage a cluster of servers and shared storage as if it were a single system, by providing a common cl...
Oracle President Charles Phillips delivered his opening keynote speech today at Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco. Phillips outlined the critical factors for business success today, reiterated Oracle's commitment to open standards, and made a commitment to 'Lifetime Support' to custome...
SugarCRM announced today that it has joined the Oracle PartnerNetwork to support Oracle Database users that adopt Sugar Enterprise Edition, the latest product in the company's suite of open source customer relationship management (CRM) solutions.
Oracle's Charles Phillips says, 'Oracle views the IBM-Oracle project as one of the most important customer focused projects underway at our company. We are highly committed to a successful outcome.' And IBM notes that the ecosystem surrounding all applications vendors, be it Oracle, Mi...
Just as, in August, the big news from the Oracle was all about Oracle Database 10g Release 2, this week at Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco the big news for Java developers was all about Oracle Application Server 10g Release 3.
Oracle OpenWorld opened this weekend and continues through Thursday, September 22, 2005 at San Francisco's Moscone Center. This year's show combines Oracle OpenWorld, PeopleSoft Connect and Retek World conferences into the largest OpenWorld event yet.
Just as, in August, the big news from Oracle was all about Oracle Database 10g Release 2, this coming week at Oracle OpenWorld the big news will all be about Oracle Application Server 10g Release 3.
BIO-key International is showcasing its fingerprint biometrics products at the Oracle OpenWorld 2005 and will be providing hands-on product demonstrations of its state-of-the-art identification technology.
Oracle rewarded a contest that had developers exploring state-of-the-art IT technologies with something from the burgeoning commercial space industry by sending a lucky developer to the edge of space. As the grand prize winner of the Oracle Space Sweepstakes, a senior software develope...
Just as, in August, the big news from Oracle was all about Oracle Database 10g Release 2, this coming week at Oracle OpenWorld the big news will all be about Oracle Application Server 10g Release 3.
Oracle announced the general availability of Oracle Database 10g Release 2 on the Microsoft Windows platform. Now Windows customers can benefit from the many grid computing, performance, scalability, and security enhancements to Oracle Database 10g Release 2.