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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 strong, driving mos... (more)

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 Architecture Suite is compri... (more)

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, in fact, do th... (more)

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 technology and highlig... (more)

Oracle announced 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 Architecture Suite is comprised of best-in... (more)

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 contact center so... (more)

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 (formerly Oracle Content Services and Oracle Records Management), organizations can manage t... (more)

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... (more)

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. Jointly developed with st... (more)

Oracle confirmed that is thinking about a SOA 2.0 strategy that will combine the web services approach with an event-driven architecture that will produce the next generation of SOA applications and environments. Company VP Steve Harris sad that SOA 2.0 is the term the company is u... (more)

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. Wh... (more)

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 redu... (more)

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. The project is part of an overall turnaround strategy in which... (more)

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. These classes were part of a stron... (more)

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. TopLink Essentials is the official open sour... (more)

Oracle has updated Berkeley DB, the open-source database it acquired when it bought out software company Sleepycat earlier in the year. The announcement came at the JavaOne 2006 conference in San Francisco. Berkeley DB Java Edition Release 3.0 is the third major release in three ... (more)

Oracle announced at JavaOne 2006 in San Francisco a series of contributions to leading open source initiatives. Oracle has donated more than 100 Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF) Faces components to the Apache MyFaces project, and also announced plans to augment this... (more)

Oracle announced what is calls "the industry's first compliant implementation of the Java Persistence API (JPA)," TopLink Essentials, at JavaOne 2006 in San Francisco. Oracle, along with Sun, was the EJB 3.0 specification co-lead and delivered the JPA as part of the specification... (more)

Oracle is among the licensees signaling support of the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) 5 spec, which was recently approved by the Java Community Process. Sun is calling Java EE 5 "the most significant update of the programming model to the Enterprise Java development ... (more)

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,... (more)