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ORACLE BEA - HP Not
Interested in BEA By Oracle News Desk Reuters thought to call
Tom Hogan, the head of HP
Software, and ask him
whether HP, whose own
adventure into web
servers was a disaster,
was interested in buying
BEA. Tom said no. HP has
relationships with BEA's
rivals on behalf of its
management software and
want... Nov. 17, 2007 12:00 PM Reads: 5,388 | Amway to Use IBM
Virtualization to Roll
Out Oracle Applications By Oracle News Desk Amway Corporation
selected a virtualized
IBM server infrastructure
for a worldwide rollout
of Oracle's enterprise
resource planning
applications. The
decision to run the
applications on hundreds
of virtual servers,
rather than an equivalent
number of physical boxe... Nov. 17, 2007 12:00 PM Reads: 3,974 | Oracle to Offer Server
Virtualization Software By Oracle News Desk Oracle has announced
Oracle VM, server
virtualization software
that supports both Oracle
and non-Oracle
applications. Key Oracle
products including Oracle
Database, Oracle Fusion
Middleware and Oracle
Applications are
certified with Oracle VM.
Customers have a sin... Nov. 12, 2007 06:30 PM Reads: 4,226 | Oracle's Dave Chappell to
Present at SOA World
Conference & Expo 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. 8, 2007 12:00 PM Reads: 5,314 | Oracle Fusion
Presentation 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. 8, 2007 12:00 PM Reads: 4,858 | "Do All the Web 2.0
Buzzwords Map Back to
Business Value?" Asks
Oracle's Chief Architect By Oracle News Desk 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 social
... Sep. 24, 2007 11:30 AM Reads: 8,371 | Oracle's Great $25
Billion Acquisition
Gamble Is Paying Off By Oracle News Desk  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... Sep. 23, 2007 11:45 AM Reads: 11,198 Replies: 1 | Oracle's Software Sales
Accelerated at the
Fastest Pace for Seven
Years By Oracle News Desk  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. Sep. 21, 2007 01:00 PM Reads: 12,327 Replies: 1 | Oracle Announces Enhanced
SOA and Business Process
Analysis Suite By Oracle News Desk 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 produ... Sep. 19, 2007 04:15 PM Reads: 8,192 | Oracle's Manager of Web
2.0 Services To Speak at
AJAXWorld Conference &
Expo 2007 West By Oracle News Desk  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 ... Sep. 17, 2007 10:00 AM Reads: 8,286 | Oracle Becomes "Platinum
Sponsor" of AJAXWorld
Conference & Expo By Oracle News Desk 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
a... Sep. 6, 2007 04:30 PM Reads: 8,041 Replies: 1 | Next-Generation IP
Services: Oracle Acquires
Netsure By Oracle News Desk '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
... Sep. 4, 2007 06:45 PM Reads: 8,644 | Dave Chappell of Oracle By Oracle News Desk  SOA Conference 2007 East Aug. 21, 2007 09:00 AM Reads: 6,007 | How to Use Google Web
Toolkit with Oracle
Sleepycat By Oracle News Desk 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
tie... Aug. 12, 2007 09:45 AM Reads: 16,415 Replies: 1 | Ellison Planning to Sell
100M Oracle Shares, Could
Raise $2.06 Billion By Oracle News Desk 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
... Jul. 28, 2007 06:45 PM Reads: 7,255 Replies: 1 | Veritas Certified on
Oracle's Linux By Oracle News Desk 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
... Jul. 25, 2007 04:45 PM Reads: 7,202 Replies: 1 | Oracle to Ship its 11g
Database for Linux this
August By Oracle News Desk  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... Jul. 16, 2007 05:30 PM Reads: 8,173 Replies: 1 | MySQL Goads Oracle By Oracle News Desk 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. Jul. 16, 2007 01:45 PM Reads: 8,645 Replies: 1 | Oracle Announces Oracle
Database 11g By Oracle News Desk 'Oracle Database 11g,
built on 30 years of
design experience,
delivers the next
generation of enterprise
information management,'
said Andy Mendelsohn,
senior vice president of
Database Server
Technologies, Oracle.
'More than ever, our
customers are facing the
c... Jul. 12, 2007 10:15 PM Reads: 13,283 | Oracle's Apps Need a
Caffeine Jolt By Oracle News Desk Thanks to Larry Ellison's
acquisition spree Oracle
is now an $18
billion-a-year company
with an income of $4.3
billion. Oracle said Q4
software revenues were up
10% to $4.8 billion; new
licenses were up 17% with
database and middleware
new licenses up 18% and
new ... Jul. 12, 2007 07:15 PM Reads: 7,848 Replies: 1 | WebLayers Extends SOA
Policy Management Across
Oracle SOA Suite By Oracle News Desk 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. Jun. 27, 2007 12:00 PM Reads: 7,248 | Oracle To Present at SOA
World Conference & Expo,
June 24-27, in New York
City By Oracle News Desk  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 t... Jun. 21, 2007 11:15 AM Reads: 6,344 Replies: 1 | Dave Chappell Named
"Chief SOA Technologist"
at Oracle By Oracle News Desk David 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 wo... Jun. 2, 2007 08:30 PM Reads: 10,343 Replies: 1 | Oracle's Chief SOA
Technologist to Present
at SOA World Conference &
Expo By Oracle News Desk Chappell will provide an
insight on building and
managing SOAs with an ESB
using the latest advanced
Web Services
specifications such as
WS-ReliableMessaging,
WS-Addressing,
WS-Security, and
WS-Policy. Attendees can
learn to identify the
critical requirements for ... Jun. 2, 2007 08:30 PM Reads: 10,039 Replies: 1 | Oracle Spends Half-Bil in
SOA Arms Race with SAP By Oracle News Desk Agile's PLM solutions
help engineers,
manufacturing and supply
chain professionals and
business executives drive
the product innovation
and introduction process,
share product
specifications and
configurations and
collaborate effectively
across the supply chain
... May. 16, 2007 07:30 PM Reads: 7,313 Replies: 1 | Oracle App Server
Outperforms WebSphere and
WebLogic By Oracle News Desk Oracle announced that
Oracle Application Server
10g, a key component of
Oracle Fusion Middleware,
together with Oracle
Database 10g, set a
record-breaking result in
the SPECjAppServer2004
industry standard
benchmark by delivering
the highest performance
per core a... May. 11, 2007 11:15 AM Reads: 9,699 | Oracle Sues SAP for Theft By Oracle News Desk Oracle sued its great
rival SAP Thursday in a
federal court in San
Francisco claiming that
the German company broke
into its computers and
stole massive amounts of
its customer support
material, including
copyrighted software
updates, bug fixes,
patches, custom so... Apr. 25, 2007 12:30 PM Reads: 16,088 Replies: 4 | Open Source EnterpriseDB
Upgrades Oracle
Compatibility By Oracle News Desk EnterpriseDB Advanced
Server 8.2 can now run
applications written for
Oracle databases that
rely on the Oracle Call
Interface (OCI). This
significantly broadens
the range of Oracle
applications that can run
on EnterpriseDB with
little or no modification
to the app... Apr. 24, 2007 09:00 PM Reads: 8,029 Replies: 2 | Oracle Expands
Applications Integration
Initiative for Partners By Oracle News Desk Oracle today announced it
has expanded the Oracle
PartnerNetwork
Applications Integration
Initiative (AII) to give
partners a strategic
option for integrating
with Oracle(R)
Applications by using
Oracle Application
Integration Architecture
(AIA). With Oracle
Se... Apr. 17, 2007 12:45 PM Reads: 7,674 | Oracle Unveils Oracle
Application Integration
Architecture By Oracle News Desk Today at COLLABORATE 07,
Oracle announced the
Oracle Application
Integration Architecture,
an open, standards-based
platform for business
process management across
Oracle, third- party and
custom applications. As
part of the Oracle
Application Integration
Archit... Apr. 17, 2007 12:15 PM Reads: 7,192 | Oracle Licenses IBM Open
Invention Network Patents By Oracle News Desk Oracle, which of course
has Linux ambitions - and
anti-Red Hat ones at that
- has become a licensee
of the Open Invention
Network (OIN), the
non-profit IP house set
up by IBM to acquire
patents and make sure
they're available
royalty-free to Linux.
The real idea i... Mar. 31, 2007 03:30 PM Reads: 7,069 Replies: 1 | Oracle Licenses OIN
Patents By Oracle News Desk OIN claims to have
accumulated 100 patents
and patent applications.
It calls them
'strategic.' How
strategic is unclear
since it's never
disclosed which ones they
are. OIN is known to
hold what are supposed to
be seminal and
emasculating Commerce One
e-commerce... Mar. 31, 2007 02:45 PM Reads: 8,700 Replies: 1 | The Gods Must Love Oracle By Oracle News Desk On Tuesday it reported
fiscal Q3 earnings, up
36% year-over-year to $1
billion, or 20 cents a
share, on revenues of
$4.4 billion, up 27%,
beating its own estimates
across all product lines
and all geographies. It
had predicted a 24%-29%
gain in income on
revenues... Mar. 26, 2007 12:00 PM Reads: 7,175 | Oracle Joins AJAXWorld
Conference & Expo As
"Gold Sponsor" By Oracle News Desk SYS-CON Events announced
today that Oracle joined
AJAXWorld Conference &
Expo 2007 East as 'Gold
Sponsor.' The leading Web
2.0 and RIA event will
take place on March 19-21
2007 in New York City.
The AJAX evangelist and
OpenAjax representative
from Oracle will also
... Mar. 3, 2007 09:30 AM Reads: 16,348 Replies: 1 | Oracle Gobbles Hyperion
– Price: $3.3
Billion By Oracle News Desk 'This will represent the
most comprehensive
business intelligence
line compared to Cognos
and Business Objects, who
tend to have few analytic
applications and no
database,' said Oracle
president Charles
Phillips as Oracle
announced its biggest
software purchase si... Mar. 1, 2007 11:00 AM Reads: 6,882 | Progress Software Expands
Actional SOA Management
With Support For Oracle
And JBoss By Oracle News Desk Progress Software
announced additional
Ghost Agent components
for its Progress Actional
service-oriented
architecture (SOA)
management suite; namely
the Actional Ghost Agent?
for Oracle application
servers and the Actional
Ghost Agent for JBoss
application servers. Feb. 23, 2007 10:30 PM Reads: 7,988 Replies: 3 | Oracle Donates AJAX Code
to Open Source Community By Oracle News Desk Oracle has donated Faces
components to the Apache
MyFaces project, and also
announced plans to
augment this donation by
contributing what it
calls its next generation
Asynchronous Javascript
And XML (AJAX) user
interface technology to
the open source
community. Jan. 25, 2007 04:30 PM Reads: 7,765 | Oracle's Retro-Rockets
Sputter By Oracle News Desk Twenty billion-odd
dollars later and
Oracle's fiscal Q2
numbers Monday were up
26% on the revenues side
to $4.2 billion and up
21% on the earnings side
to $967 million, or 18
cents a share, but a
little light on new
database and applications
software licenses, up ... Dec. 22, 2006 01:00 PM Reads: 5,782 Replies: 1 | Oracle Increases Price to
Rs. 2,100 per Share for
i-flex Open Offer By Oracle News Desk Oracle has announced that
it has increased to Rs.
2,100 per share including
interest and has
increased to
approximately 35 percent
the number of shares it
has agreed to purchase in
the pending open offer of
i-flex solutions (Bombay
Stock Exchange: IFLX.BO
and Nati... Dec. 9, 2006 05:00 AM Reads: 8,074 | Oracle Announces General
Availability of Oracle
Enterprise Single Sign-On
Suite By Oracle News Desk Oracle has announced
availability of the
Oracle Enterprise Single
Sign-On Suite. The Suite
is a component of Oracle
Identity Management and
helps simplify and
improve security by
providing single sign-on,
access control and
password management for
virtually any ap... Dec. 7, 2006 12:00 AM Reads: 8,116 |
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