Registration for Oracle OpenWorld San Francisco 2008

Oracle announced yersterday that registration for Oracle OpenWorld San Francisco 2008 is now open. One of the world’s largest events dedicated to helping enterprises understand and harness the power of information will be held September 21-25 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.
The Keynote line up is scheduled to include industry leaders and [...]

Oracle is No. 1 Database of Choice for 15 Years in a Row

 
 
In its April 2008 report, Worldwide RDBMS 2007 Vendor Shares: Preliminary Results for the Top 5 Vendors (pdf), IDC, an independent analyst firm, has released its preliminary 2007 database market share numbers and, for the 15th consecutive year, Oracle is No. 1.
According to the report, “Oracle once again led the RDBMS market and increased its [...]

Oracle Completes Acquisition of BEA Systems

Oracle Corporation announced today that it had received approval of the European Commission and subsequently completed its acquisition of BEA Systems, Inc.
“The addition of BEA will accelerate innovation by bringing together two companies with a common vision of a modern service-oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure,” said Oracle President Charles Phillips. “Together, Oracle and BEA will provide [...]

Oracle Technology Day “System Management” le 6 mai à Genève

Si vous êtes soucieux d’améliorer la qualité de service, de baisser les coûts de gestion de vos data centers et de redynamiser la performance de vos applications, Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Release 4 devrait vous séduire par son approche « top-down » exclusive. C’est cette approche que les experts Oracle vous invitent à découvrir en [...]

Three New Oracle Lifetime Support Policy Brochures

Oracle is successfully integrating new acquisitions each quarter and have outgrown his single Lifetime Support Brochure. As a result, this quarter, Oracle have introduced three, shorter, more manageable brochures:

Lifetime Support Policy – Applications
Lifetime Support Policy – Technology
Lifetime Support Policy – Retail

The new brochures feature new, easy-to-differentiate covers and provide new Tables of Contents for quick [...]

Application Lifecycle Management Tools Survey

Application lifecycle management (ALM) regards the process of delivering software as a continuously repeating cycle of inter-related steps: definition, design, development, testing, deployment and management. Each of these steps needs to be carefully monitored and controlled. ALM is planned for Oracle JDeveloper release 11.
The Oracle JDeveloper team is looking into adding [...]

Missing the Charles keynote at Collaborate08?

From April 13 to 17, celebrating the third year, the Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG), the Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG) and Quest International Users Group (Quest) have combined resources and ideas to bring COLLABORATE 08 in Denver, Colorado.
During first general session keynote of the week, Oracle President Charles Phillips told Oracle customers, [...]

New InnoDB Plug-in for MySQL

At the 2008 MySQL User Conference, Innobase OY, an Oracle subsidiary, announced the initial availability of the early adopter release of the InnoDB Plugin. Now, beginning with Version 5.1 of MySQL, it is possible for users to swap out one version of InnoDB and use another.
The InnoDB Plug-in 1.0 for MySQL 5.1 adds advanced capabilities [...]

Oracle Application Framework (OAF) or Application Development Framework (ADF)?

Like our customers, partners or system integrators, you perhaps develop extensions to E-Business Suite (E-BS) applications. Such extensions have traditionally used the same technology stack (Forms or Oracle Applications Framework) that the original E-BS application was built with. This ensured that the extensions are fully compatible with the rest of the installed E-BS applications. [...]

New Release of Oracle Maintenance Wizard includes Upgrade to Oracle E-Business Suite 12.0.4

You’re perhaps aware that Oracle Support provides Maintenance Wizard to guide you through the upgrade of Oracle Applications technology stack and products from Release 11i versions to Release 12. It draws on instructions from numerous manuals and other documentation to provide you with a complete picture of the activities required for an upgrade. Oracle recently [...]