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Oracle News Desk
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Oracle Previews Fusion
Middleware 11g By Oracle News Desk 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 Fu... May. 8, 2008 03:45 PM Reads: 1,388 | Oracle Partners Embrace
Oracle Application
Integration Architecture
(AIA) By Oracle News Desk 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... Apr. 14, 2008 01:15 PM Reads: 1,013 | Oracle to Implement
Application for India's
Idea Cellular By Oracle News Desk 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'... Feb. 7, 2008 03:45 PM Reads: 1,862 | Pacific Gas and Electric
Company Relies on Oracle
to Power Nation's Largest
Smart Meter Initiative By Oracle News Desk 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
e... Jan. 23, 2008 11:00 AM Reads: 2,012 | Oracle Announces Oracle
Utilities Network
Management System Release
1.8.0 By Oracle News Desk 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
in... Jan. 23, 2008 11:00 AM Reads: 1,848 | Oracle Buys BEA: Oracle
Fusion Middleware Gets An
$8.5BN Injection of IP By Oracle News Desk 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 d... Jan. 17, 2008 12:00 PM Reads: 7,419 | Rocky Ride Ahead for
Oracle, BEA Portal
Customers By Oracle News Desk 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
particula... Jan. 17, 2008 07:45 AM Reads: 2,102 | Sun Buys MySQL, Gets
Oracle for an Enemy By Oracle News Desk 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. Jan. 16, 2008 02:30 PM Reads: 2,027 | Oracle Numbers
Lip-Smacking Good By Oracle News Desk 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... Dec. 25, 2007 02:15 PM Reads: 3,724 Replies: 1 | Oracle unveils Oracle VM By Oracle News Desk 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 O... Dec. 20, 2007 08:00 AM Reads: 2,037 | Northern California Power
Agency Teams with Oracle
to Streamline Transition
to Market Redesign and
Technology Upgrade By Oracle News Desk 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 uti... Dec. 19, 2007 12:00 PM Reads: 2,104 | Silgan Plastics
Corporation Selects
Applimation for Oracle
E-Business Suite Data
Archiving By Oracle News Desk 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
environ... Dec. 19, 2007 12:00 PM Reads: 2,350 | The RoomPlace at Harlem
Furniture Selects
Oracle/OSI Consulting
Partnership for
Enterprise Automation By Oracle News Desk 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 ... Dec. 19, 2007 12:00 PM Reads: 2,654 | Application Lynx
Implements the Oracle
E-Business Suite Release
12 for a Major Financial
Sector Client By Oracle News Desk 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 Acceler... Dec. 19, 2007 12:00 PM Reads: 2,232 | Quantros Chooses Egenera
for Mission Critical
Oracle 10g RAC By Oracle News Desk 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 in... Dec. 19, 2007 11:00 AM Reads: 2,403 | Oracle Fusion Middleware
Delivers World Record
Clustered Results By Oracle News Desk 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, deliver... Dec. 19, 2007 09:15 AM Reads: 2,261 | SteelEye Expands
Protection to Include
Oracle Enterprise Linux By Oracle News Desk 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... Dec. 17, 2007 11:45 AM Reads: 3,907 | Ecora Software Adds
Oracle Enterprise Linux
Reporting to Auditor
Professional By Oracle News Desk 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... Dec. 17, 2007 11:45 AM Reads: 3,284 | NetSuite to IPO to Repay
Larry Ellison and for
Acquisitions By Oracle News Desk 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
i... Dec. 9, 2007 10:00 PM Reads: 3,330 | OracleVM Enables Server
Virtualization Across
Enterprise By Oracle News Desk 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 inclu... Nov. 28, 2007 06:45 PM Reads: 4,196 | BakBone Gets
Certification of
NetVault: Backup on
Oracle Enterprise Linux By Oracle News Desk 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... Nov. 26, 2007 11:45 AM Reads: 5,121 | Oracle's Dave Chappell to
Present SOA and
Virtualization Session at
SOA World Conference By Oracle News Desk 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... Nov. 17, 2007 12:30 PM Reads: 10,195 Replies: 1 | ORACLE BEA - Oracle
Pounces! By Oracle News Desk '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
... Nov. 17, 2007 12:30 PM Reads: 18,717 Replies: 1 | ORACLE BEA - Round-Up of
Early Responses By Oracle News Desk  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... Nov. 17, 2007 12:30 PM Reads: 22,544 Replies: 5 | ORACLE BEA - BEAS Still
in the Midst of a
Backdating Mess By Oracle News Desk  '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 ... Nov. 17, 2007 12:30 PM Reads: 15,969 Replies: 1 | Oracle Open Sources PHP
Driver By Oracle News Desk 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 Or... Nov. 17, 2007 12:30 PM Reads: 8,435 | ORACLE BEA - Chuang Will
Be Dragged Out Kicking
and Screaming By Oracle News Desk 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, ... Nov. 17, 2007 12:30 PM Reads: 23,130 Replies: 2 | Oracle's Rakesh Saha to
Speak on Mashup
Frameworks at SOA World
Conference & Expo By Oracle News Desk 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
... Nov. 17, 2007 12:30 PM Reads: 9,780 | ORACLE BEA - Expert
Recommends Friendly
Acquisition By HP, Not
Stalker Oracle By Oracle News Desk  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
pa... Nov. 17, 2007 12:15 PM Reads: 17,167 Replies: 2 | ORACLE BEA: Chuang
Rejects Oracle's Hostile
Bid By Oracle News Desk 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
... Nov. 17, 2007 12:15 PM Reads: 14,410 | ORACLE BEA: "I Do Not See
IBM Going After BEA,"
Says Marc Fleury By Oracle News Desk  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,... Nov. 17, 2007 12:15 PM Reads: 16,719 Replies: 1 | ORACLE BEA - Forget $17,
BEA Tells Oracle and
Others It's Worth $21 a
Share By Oracle News Desk  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 ... Nov. 17, 2007 12:15 PM Reads: 21,494 Replies: 5 | ORACLE BEA - Carl Icahn
Threatens Proxy Battle
For Control of BEA By Oracle News Desk  Carl Icahn, BEA's biggest
shareholder with approx
15% of its stock, has
told a reporter that it
is 'insane' for the
company to reject out of
hand Oracle's unsolicited
bid. 'I'm not saying I
accept $17,' Icahn told
Reuters. 'It's going to
be a three-month
process.'... Nov. 17, 2007 12:15 PM Reads: 15,442 | ORACLE-BEA - "BEA's
Business Might Materially
Weaken," Warns Spurned
Oracle By Oracle News Desk  'BEA shareholders should
not assume that Oracle
will renew its $17 per
share offer in the
future,' thundered an
announcement dispatched
to the wires yesterday by
Oracle just hours after
the lapse of its 5PM
Pacific Time deadline for
the acceptance by BEA
sharehold... Nov. 17, 2007 12:15 PM Reads: 15,179 Replies: 3 | ORACLE BEA - Trade
Threats; BEA Wants $21 a
Share By Oracle News Desk After playing coy for a
couple of weeks BEA came
out Thursday and told
Oracle what its price is:
a probably unrealistic
$21 a share, a number
close to $8.2 billion
rounding up, roughly $1.6
billion more than Oracle
has offered. Oracle,
meanwhile, has already
threa... Nov. 17, 2007 12:15 PM Reads: 8,783 | Oracle Fusion Not Fusing? By Oracle News Desk Hmmm. Oracle may be
having a problem with its
vaunted next-generation
Project Fusion meant to
lash all the software
it's acquired together
with its homegrown stuff.
Seems the guy running
Fusion, senior VP John
Wookey, is being replaced
by Thomas Kurian, head of
Or... Nov. 17, 2007 12:15 PM Reads: 5,975 Replies: 1 | ORACLE BEA - Larry Waits
For BEA To Report Q3
Results November 15 By Oracle News Desk  November 15, BEA will
report its financial
results for the third
quarter, with investors
having the opportunity to
listen to its financial
results conference call
over the Internet. Both
Larry Ellison and Carl
Icahn will doubtless be
waiting with considerable
inte... Nov. 17, 2007 12:15 PM Reads: 15,814 | Ellison's Pillar Data
Announces Oracle VM
Virtualization Support By Oracle News Desk Launched at Oracle
OpenWorld, Oracle VM
server virtualization
software 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. K... Nov. 17, 2007 12:00 PM Reads: 5,561 | JackBe Announces
Enterprise Mashup Support
for Oracle Fusion
Middleware By Oracle News Desk JackBe has announced
enterprise mashup support
for Oracle Fusion
Middleware. JackBe's
enterprise mashup
platform - Presto, a
family of products for
enterprise mashup
solutions that combines
SOA and AJAX into
enterprise mashups and
rich Internet
applications - al... Nov. 17, 2007 12:00 PM Reads: 8,909 | ORACLE BEA - Ellison
Threatens Oracle Won't
Bid As High As $6.7BN
Next Time By Oracle News Desk  'If we made another
offer, the price would be
lower,' Oracle's Larry
Ellison told those who
gathered last night at
Oracle's annual financial
analyst meeting in San
Francisco. 'Clearly the
$17 price seems too high
now,' Ellison warned, in
what those there were
quic... Nov. 17, 2007 12:00 PM Reads: 8,463 |
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