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Oracle this week upgraded the WebLogic application server that the company gained in its BEA Systems acquisition, adding integration with Oracle's Fusion middleware platform. Oracle WebLogic Server was named as Oracle's strategic Java container on July 1. The upgrade, WebLogic Server 1...
Eaton Steel is relying on the Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Database and Oracle SOA Suite, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, to gain insight into its supply chain network and financial results, simplify transactions with its network of partners and help reduce costs by automat...
Oracle announced the first in a series of free Oracle business applications for the Apple iPhone. Oracle Business Indicators will be available on the Apple App Store beginning July 10th. These new Oracle business applications address how busy executives and managers work today -- requ...
To help organizations more readily institute hardware and software changes to their Oracle Database systems, including upgrades to Oracle Database 11g, Oracle announced that Oracle Real Application Testing now features support for all releases of Oracle Database 10g, and Oracle9i Datab...
Oracle announced new releases of Oracle Berkeley DB, Oracle Berkeley DB XML and Oracle Berkeley DB Java Edition. The new releases and enhancements signify Oracle's commitment to continued innovation across the Oracle Berkeley DB product family, while maintaining the open source dual li...
Bluenog announced that it has become a Certified Advantage Partner in the Oracle PartnerNetwork. Under the program, Bluenog will resell Oracle software, including Oracle Database and Oracle Fusion middleware, and will provide associated services and integrated solutions. Bluenog's core...
Faster adoption of technologies has resulted into heterogeneous information systems. Gleaning and processing of complex information is of increasing importance in today's diverse environments. A built-in, infrastructure-level capability to process and correlate high volumes of events, ...
Luciad announced that it has released LuciadMap Version 8.0 with substantial new functionality and increased performance, enabling developers to build and deploy high-end mission-critical systems. Luciad's partnership with Oracle is reinforced in the seamless integration with the lates...
Building on its November 2007 preview, Oracle previewed additional planned feature enhancements of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g. Based on feedback resulting from close cooperation with customers testing in real-world environments, the latest preview of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g incl...
Since the launch of the Oracle Application Integration Architecture (AIA) last April, Oracle's partner ecosystem has embraced Oracle's pre-built integration products and stepped forward to deploy and extend them for specific customers. The combination of pre-built integration products ...
Global enterprise software company Oracle said it has bagged an order from Idea Cellular to implement Siebel CRM applications, which will address problems arising of the telco's extensive channel and dealer network and meet its fast-expanding customer base. Idea's strategic outsourcin...
Oracle announced that Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) is using Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing on an Oracle enterprise grid to power the largest smart meter initiative in the United States to date, helping businesses and households become more energy-efficient and re...
Oracle announced the availability of Oracle Utilities Network Management System Release 1.8.0, an integrated suite of real-time operations technology applications designed to improve network reliability, maximize asset utilization, reduce outage durations and increase customer satisfac...
BEA, described by the Wall Street Journal this morning as 'one of the few independent, midsize software companies left in Silicon Valley as the technology industry consolidates' is independent no longer: it has been acquired today by Larry Ellison's Oracle, in a deal worth $8.5BN. The ...
CMS Watch has found that some of the largest enterprise portal vendors are experiencing the most change right now, and therefore, choices that appear conservative to customers might actually carry significant near-term risks. BEA and Oracle customers in particular should expect to see...
Sun, Oracle?s sometimes best friend, turned into an Oracle competitor this morning when it said it was buying MySQL, the open source database that?s part of the famous LAMP stack. It?s paying a billion dollars.
Oracle Wednesday told a skittish market behaving lately like a bunch of old ladies that its fiscal Q2 earnings were up 35% to $1.3 billion, or 25 cents a share, on revenues up 28% to $5.3 billion. Having done better than expected, the company's stock rose in after-hours trading after b...
Oracle announced Oracle VM, a server virtualization software which supports both Oracle and non-Oracle applications. Oracle VM offers scalable, low-cost server virtualization that is up to three times more efficient than existing products from other vendors. Key Oracle products includi...
OSI Consulting, Inc. announced that The RoomPlace at Harlem Furniture has selected Oracle E-Business Suite solutions with OSI Consulting retained as the implementation and integration partner. Leveraging Oracle's E-Business Suite, The RoomPlace expects improved functionality and integr...
Application Lynx is pleased to announce that in partnership with Maxima, it has completed one of the first successful UK implementations of the Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 on a Microsoft Windows platform using Oracle Accelerate. Driven by the Oracle Accelerate solution program, ...
Northern California Power Agency announced an innovative use of Oracle XML DB, a feature of Oracle Database 11g that provides high-performance XML storage and retrieval, to manage the very large and complex power settlements data that every California electric utility will receive star...
Applimation, Inc. announced today that it has been selected by Silgan Plastics Corporation to improve the performance of its Oracle E-Business Suite applications. Silgan Plastics Corporation selected Applimation Informia Archive to improve the production environment performance of its ...
Egenera Inc. announced that Quantros has chosen Egenera for its mission critical Oracle 10g Real Application Clusters (RAC) deployment. Quantros' web-based applications improve the quality of patient care by providing a standard platform for automating resource intensive and manual pro...
Oracle announced that Oracle Application Server 10g Release 3, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, together with Oracle Database and Oracle Real Application Clusters, running on HP Integrity server blades and HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Arrays, delivered world record cluste...
SteelEye Technology announced that Oracle Enterprise Linux joins Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Asianux as supported Linux operating platforms for SteelEye, LifeKeeper, and SteelEye Data Replication. SteelEye Data Replication for Linux leverages open ...
Ecora Software announced expanded enhancements to Ecora Auditor Professional that further extend its automated collection and reporting capabilities to include the newest generation of devices and operating systems being installed in enterprise environments. Ecora's Auditor Pro include...
NetSuite recently disclosed that Larry's 60% majority interest in the company is going to be stowed in a lockbox over which he has no personal control to deflect any talk of conflict of interest. See, NetSuite is considered a potential competitor of Oracle and is also an Oracle custome...
Oracle announced Oracle VM, server virtualization software which supports both Oracle and non-Oracle applications. Oracle VM offers scalable, low-cost server virtualization that is more efficient than existing products from other vendors. Key Oracle products including Oracle Database, ...
BakBone Software, a member of the Oracle PartnerNetwork, announced that BakBone NetVault: Backup is now certified on Oracle Enterprise Linux. Increased customer demand for Linux is driving the adoption of Linux-based applications and databases, making the need for enterprise-class Linu...
'Oracle is prepared to proceed immediately,' says the official letter delivered today to the Board of Directors of BEA by Oracle, which is proposing to acquire BEA for $17.00 per share in cash - a 25% premium over yesterday's closing price of $13.62. 'We have made a serious proposal in...
Dana Gardner says: 'Someone had to pull the trigger, and few companies could better leverage and extend the value of BEA than...Oracle.' In addition to Gardner, read what Om Malik, Eric Savitz, Ray Wang, Jeff Nolan, Jason Bell and Curt Monash think...here's what the industry is saying ...
'Our continuing support commitment has been amply demonstrated with all of our previous acquisitions, including PeopleSoft and Siebel. BEA will be no different,' he said. 'The acquisition of BEA by Oracle will enable an increase in engineering resources that will in turn accelerate the...
Oracle is open sourcing a Call Interface (OC18) database driver for PHP, describing it as bringing 'breakthrough scalability to PHP applications' and enhancing it as a viable development environment for mission-critical applications. The driver, it said, supports Oracle Database 11g fe...
Marc Fleury - who started JBoss in the early 2000, sold it in 2006 and is now retired - has been commenting on Oracle's $6.6BN bid for BEA Systems. 'The combination just makes sense from most angles I can think of,' he writes. Of Alfred Chuang, BEA's current CEO, he predicts: 'It is go...
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. These applications can be creat...
Today's SOA practitioners find their greatest architecture challenges addressing reliability and scalability for composite applications and processing large XML payloads. This session presents a breakthrough design for SOAs that deliver continuous availability and predictable scalabili...
In the view of Rob Hailstone, Software Infrastructure Practice Director with IT research and advisory organization Butler Group, the combination of HP and BEA, if executed well, would create a significant force in the industry. BEA has been very successful in partnering with HP, Hailst...
It's unclear where BEA is going to run and hide to avoid a shotgun wedding, but its board late Friday rejected Oracle's $6.66 billion marriage proposal. In a letter to Oracle that the board made public it expressed irritation that Oracle had made its wooing known and rated Oracle's $17...
Former JBoss maestro Marc Fleury has been considering the contenders in any race to counter-bid for BEA in the face of Oracle's $6.6BN bid. His conclusion: Most of the big players would be better off buying Red Hat. 'Red Hat is a better, and potentially cheaper, option for many of the ...
BEA's Board of Directors is unlikely to accept Oracle's offer of $17 a share by Sunday, when the Oracle-set deadline for acceptance expires. It says that it would only be willing to begin discussing a sale of the company if the offer price were $21 per share. BEA is maintaining its pos...
Whether you work for a very large company with thousands of services in production or a small company with only a couple, visibility into the performance and uptime ...
I took the advice of a friend of mine and steered clear of the 'normal' movie theaters and went a little out of the way to go to a DLP movie theater. The experience ...
There are 8,909 books listed on Amazon.com with the word 'Investing' in the title; there are(!) 27,146 books with the word investment in the title. Without having lo...
This book is an update of an earlier version that was written for SQL Server 2000. It employs the Murach approach of dual pages that repeat and enhance the concepts ...
Reviewers overuse the phrase 'required reading,' but no other description fits the new book 'Ajax Security' (2007, Addison Wesley, 470p). This exhaustive tome from B...
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Oracle News Desk trawls the world's news information sources and brings you timely updates on Oracle and its ever-expanding enterprise software portfolio, including its entire range of tools for managing business data, supporting business operations, and facilitating collaboration and application development. 
Dana Gardner says: 'Someone had to pull the trigger, and few companies could better leverage and extend the value of BEA than...Oracle.' In addition to Gardner, read what Om Malik, Eric Savitz, Ray Wang, Jeff Nolan, Jason Bell and Curt Monash think...here's what the industry is saying ...
'Our continuing support commitment has been amply demonstrated with all of our previous acquisitions, including PeopleSoft and Siebel. BEA will be no different,' he said. 'The acquisition of BEA by Oracle will enable an increase in engineering resources that will in turn accelerate the...
In the view of Rob Hailstone, Software Infrastructure Practice Director with IT research and advisory organization Butler Group, the combination of HP and BEA, if executed well, would create a significant force in the industry. BEA has been very successful in partnering with HP, Hailst...
Former JBoss maestro Marc Fleury has been considering the contenders in any race to counter-bid for BEA in the face of Oracle's $6.6BN bid. His conclusion: Most of the big players would be better off buying Red Hat. 'Red Hat is a better, and potentially cheaper, option for many of the ...
BEA's Board of Directors is unlikely to accept Oracle's offer of $17 a share by Sunday, when the Oracle-set deadline for acceptance expires. It says that it would only be willing to begin discussing a sale of the company if the offer price were $21 per share. BEA is maintaining its pos...
Whether you work for a very large company with thousands of services in production or a small company with only a couple, visibility into the performance and uptime ...
I took the advice of a friend of mine and steered clear of the 'normal' movie theaters and went a little out of the way to go to a DLP movie theater. The experience ...
There are 8,909 books listed on Amazon.com with the word 'Investing' in the title; there are(!) 27,146 books with the word investment in the title. Without having lo...
This book is an update of an earlier version that was written for SQL Server 2000. It employs the Murach approach of dual pages that repeat and enhance the concepts ...
Reviewers overuse the phrase 'required reading,' but no other description fits the new book 'Ajax Security' (2007, Addison Wesley, 470p). This exhaustive tome from B...