Oracle News Desk

(November 8, 2007) - 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. Th... (more)

(September 24, 2007) -  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 s... (more)

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 billi... (more)

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. Oracle shares have risen almost 30% for the year to date, incr... (more)

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, operati... (more)

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 final... (more)

Oracle's business is information-how to manage it, use it, share it, protect it. The world's largest enterprise software company, Oracle is the only vendor to offer solutions for every tier of your business-database, middleware, business intelligence, business applications, and c... (more)

"In conjunction with Oracle's ERP, supply chain, inventory management and network discovery solutions, Oracle plans to provide service providers the ability to improve their network ROI and increase their operational efficiency as they launch, deploy and profit from next-generati... (more)

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This AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 West session is based on Erick Audet's real-life experience using the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) with a persistence layer handled by Sleepycat from Oracle. He will demonstrate how fast the response time can be when no middle tier persistence la... (more)

Larry Ellison is planning to sell up to 100 million of his Oracle shares between September and June. Using the stock's $20.61 close last Friday as a yardstick, he could raise about $2.06 billion for asset diversification and sheer liquidity. Ellison also plans to gift around two ... (more)

Symantec's Veritas software has been certified on Oracle's Linux widgetry. Both vendors are supposed to support Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0, Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle 5.0, Veritas Storage Foundation Cluster File System 5.0, Veritas Cluster Server 5.0, Veritas NetBa... (more)

Well, the only thing Oracle is willing to confirm is that it's supposed to ship its shiny new 11g database, the result of a reported 36.000 man-months of development, for Linux this quarter, maybe August. Oracle's been beating the ground to tout the thing, but won't say when any ... (more)

MySQL is going to wave a red cape in front of Oracle by offering senior Oracle database administrators a free one-day course of technical training in its advanced techniques. Roughly a third of Oracle users are supposed to have MySQL in their shops Sourceforge Monetization As a w... (more)

Oracle trotted out septuagenerian James Burke--known for his Connections series on BBC and PBS in the late 70s and for his association with the early Microsoft CD-ROM conferences in the 80s--as part of its gala Oracle Database 11g announcement. Oracle senior vice president Andy M... (more)

Oracle, whose magic number is 20%, flaunted fiscal fourth-quarter earnings of $1.6 billion, up 23% year-over-year, on revenues up 20% to $5.8 billion against what it kept reminding people was a hard compare. It claimed it took market share from IBM, SAP and BEA and is experiencing ... (more)

WebLayers, a provider of automated SOA Governance and member of the Oracle PartnerNetwork, has announced a solution for automated governance across the Oracle SOA Suite, a set of service infrastructure components for building, deploying and managing SOAs. WebLayers Center 4.0 au... (more)

Oracle chief SOA technologist Dave Chappell will present a session entitled "SOA Reality Check" at the upcoming SOA World Conference & Expo 2007 East, which will take place June 24-27, 2007, in New York City. The landscape of Web Services, and the shape of the SOA Infrastructure is... (more)

Dave Chappell named vice president and chief technologist for SOA of Oracle. Chappell has over 20 years of experience in the software industry covering a broad range of roles including Architecture, code-slinging, sales, support and marketing. He is well known worldwide for his w... (more)

Now that the WS-* specifications have become more mature, and SOA is becoming the new architectural pattern for enterprise infrastructures, there are new and unique architectural challenges that need to be addressed in order to fully enjoy the capabilities SOA provides. In order... (more)