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Oracle News Desk

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.
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Oracle OpenWorld:
SugarCRM Makes Latest
Product Available on 9i
and 10g By Oracle News Desk SugarCRM announced today
that it has joined the
Oracle PartnerNetwork to
support Oracle Database
users that adopt Sugar
Enterprise Edition, the
latest product in the
company's suite of open
source customer
relationship management
(CRM) solutions. Sep. 19, 2005 03:00 PM Reads: 8,314 Replies: 1 | Oracle Certifies IBM
WebSphere for Project
Fusion By Oracle News Desk Oracle's Charles Phillips
says, 'Oracle views the
IBM-Oracle project as one
of the most important
customer focused projects
underway at our company.
We are highly committed
to a successful outcome.'
And IBM notes that the
ecosystem surrounding all
applications vendo... Sep. 19, 2005 02:00 PM Reads: 6,396 Replies: 2 | Oracle 10g Release 3
Unveiled at Oracle
OpenWorld By Oracle News Desk Just as, in August, the
big news from the Oracle
was all about Oracle
Database 10g Release 2,
this week at Oracle
OpenWorld in San
Francisco the big news
for Java developers was
all about Oracle
Application Server 10g
Release 3. Sep. 19, 2005 11:00 AM Reads: 6,477 | Oracle OpenWorld San
Francisco: Oracle's
Largest Event Yet By Oracle News Desk Oracle OpenWorld opened
this weekend and
continues through
Thursday, September 22,
2005 at San Francisco's
Moscone Center. This
year's show combines
Oracle OpenWorld,
PeopleSoft Connect and
Retek World conferences
into the largest
OpenWorld event yet. Sep. 19, 2005 10:30 AM Reads: 4,347 Replies: 1 | Oracle OpenWorld Preview:
Fingerprint Biometrics
Products on Show in San
Francisco By Oracle News Desk  BIO-key International is
showcasing its
fingerprint biometrics
products at the Oracle
OpenWorld 2005 and will
be providing hands-on
product demonstrations of
its state-of-the-art
identification
technology. Sep. 18, 2005 02:45 PM Reads: 8,056 | Oracle Sends Winning
Software Developer Out of
This World By Oracle News Desk Oracle rewarded a contest
that had developers
exploring
state-of-the-art IT
technologies with
something from the
burgeoning commercial
space industry by sending
a lucky developer to the
edge of space. As the
grand prize winner of the
Oracle Space Sweepstakes,
a ... Sep. 18, 2005 05:45 AM Reads: 5,065 | Oracle Database 10g
Release 2 Available on
Windows By Oracle News Desk Oracle announced the
general availability of
Oracle Database 10g
Release 2 on the
Microsoft Windows
platform. Now Windows
customers can benefit
from the many grid
computing, performance,
scalability, and security
enhancements to Oracle
Database 10g Release 2. Sep. 13, 2005 08:00 AM Reads: 6,515 Replies: 1 | Oracle To Buy Siebel and
Make Itself "The World's
No. 1 CRM Company" By Oracle News Desk Oracle has at last become
the number one CRM
applications company in
the world. 'Siebel's
4,000 applications
customers and 3,400,000
CRM users strengthen our
number one position in
applications in North
America and move us
closer to the number one
position in appl... Sep. 13, 2005 06:45 AM Reads: 9,995 Replies: 2 | salesforce.com's Benioff
Says Oracle-Siebel Deal
"Puts Investors out of
Misery" By Oracle News Desk Marc Benioff, former
Oracle exec and now CEO
of Oracle rival
salesforce.com, reacted
to new of Oracle's
acquisition of Siebel by
saying in a note to
employees, 'Client/Server
software is being
consolidated by Oracle
just as mainframe
software was consolidated
by... Sep. 12, 2005 11:00 AM Reads: 11,893 Replies: 2 | Ellison to Pay $100M to
Charity, $22.5M to Oracle
Shareholders' Lawyers? By Oracle News Desk The New York Times is
reporting that it may
well cost $122.5M in
total for Larry Ellison
to settle the so-called
derivative lawsuits filed
against him in connection
with his sale of $900M
worth of Oracle stock
just before the 2001
price crash. $100M would
go to ch... Sep. 12, 2005 06:30 AM Reads: 9,299 | Oracle Openworld and BEA
BEAWorld Focus on
Industry Solutions By Oracle News Desk Oracle Openworld and
BEA's BEAWorld are
scheduled to begin
shortly. Oracle has
announced that it will
offer industry-focused
sessions at Oracle
OpenWorld San Francisco
September 17 - 22, 2005,
at Moscone Center.
BEAWorld is scheduled to
kick off with the first
o... Sep. 9, 2005 02:00 AM Reads: 5,107 Replies: 1 | Autodesk and Oracle
Streamline Management of
Geospatial Information By Oracle News Desk Autodesk announced it
will provide integrated
geospatial solutions with
Oracle to enable
customers to maximize
operational efficiencies,
based on a wealth of
location and structural
data. Sep. 8, 2005 08:00 PM Reads: 8,489 Replies: 1 | Ellison Gets $3.6M Pay
Boost: Oracle Rewards Its
Chairman & Chief
Executive For Snagging
PeopleSoft By Oracle News Desk According to its latest
SEC filing, Larry
Ellison, who last year
was paid $3.9 million by
Oracle in salary and
bonus, received $7.5
million from Oracle this
year - along with a hefty
slice of 2.5 million
stock options, compared
to just 900,000 he
received last year. Sep. 1, 2005 03:00 AM Reads: 8,337 | Sun and Oracle to Sell
Database Packs By Oracle News Desk Sun and Oracle are
joining forces to sell a
solution that includes
the Sun N1 Service
Provisioning System (N1
SPS) for Oracle Database
and Oracle Application
Server, which IT
departments can use to
deploy grids. Aug. 26, 2005 08:00 PM Reads: 4,036 Replies: 1 | Oracle Supports "64-bit
Linux" By Oracle News Desk  'As the leading
enterprise software
vendor driving adoption
of the Linux platform,
Oracle continues to test
and deploy software on
the latest architectures
to give our customers all
of the cost and
performance advantages it
delivers,' said Juergen
Rottler, executi... Aug. 22, 2005 02:00 AM Reads: 10,565 Replies: 1 | Oracle Clusters with
Novell By Oracle News Desk Linux 2.6 kernel
maintainer Andrew Morton
said he expected OCFS 2
will be distributed with
version 2.6.14 of the
public kernel. It will be
the first clustering
component to be added to
the public kernel. Aug. 12, 2005 07:00 PM Reads: 4,907 Replies: 1 | Oracle Buys Majority of
India Software Company
for $909 Million By Oracle News Desk Oracle continues its
recent buying binge with
news of the potential
buyout of a majority of
shares in India's i-Flex
Solutions. The deal will
strengthen Oracle's
position in the banking
industry. Aug. 2, 2005 01:00 PM Reads: 6,141 Replies: 1 | Colleges Schooled on
Oracle HTML DB Benefits By Oracle News Desk Oracle HTML DB is a
feature of Oracle
Database 10g designed to
let customers easily
build, deploy and manage
secure Web applications
using only a Web browser.
Two educational
institutions?a public
two-year college in the
Midwest and a private
four-year university ... Jul. 26, 2005 12:00 PM Reads: 5,087 | New World Record for
Large-Scale Data
Management Set by Oracle
and HP By Oracle News Desk Oracle & HP announced a
new world record TPC-H
three terabyte data
warehousing benchmark
result for Oracle
Database 10g Release 2 on
HP Integrity servers,
demonstrating both
companies' ability to
manage large-scale data
warehouses. Jul. 19, 2005 03:30 PM Reads: 6,356 Replies: 1 | Oracle Announces General
Availability of Oracle
Database 10g Release 2 By Oracle News Desk  Oracle announced the
general availability of
Oracle Database 10g
Release 2, which delivers
a more robust
implementation of the
Oracle Database 10g
Release 1 feature set.
The new release adds
compelling improvements
in performance,
availability,
manageability and... Jul. 19, 2005 03:00 PM Reads: 6,228 Replies: 1 | Oracle to Buy Software
Maker ProfitLogic By Oracle News Desk  Oracle is buying
privately held
ProfitLogic, a maker of
retail forecasting
software, for undisclosed
terms, the latest in a
string of deals by the
world's No. 2 software
company to consolidate
the business software
industry. Jul. 19, 2005 01:15 PM Reads: 6,638 Replies: 1 | Oracle Holds Growth By Oracle News Desk Software giant Oracle has
reported strong growth in
the Asia-Pacific region,
with revenue of $US1.73
billion for the year
ended May 2005. Jul. 18, 2005 01:00 PM Reads: 4,025 | Oracle Upgrades Grid
Computing Database By Oracle News Desk Information is always
available and secure with
the new Oracle Database
10g, the company says. By
being the first
relational database
designed for Grid
Computing, Oracle
Database 10g lowers the
cost of ownership through
automated management
while providing the
h... Jul. 15, 2005 05:30 PM Reads: 7,728 Replies: 1 | Oracle Has New .NET Tools By Oracle News Desk 'Oracle's participation
in the Microsoft Visual
Studio Industry Partner
(VSIP) program has
enabled it to deliver a
new set of tools to
develop and deploy Oracle
applications on the
Windows platform,' said
Microsoft executive Nick
Abbott. 'It represents
the culmina... Jul. 15, 2005 05:00 PM Reads: 7,341 Replies: 1 | Oracle Easing Multi-Core
Terms By Oracle News Desk  Oracle has decided the a
single chip in a
dual-processor system
should be billed at a 25%
discount, thereby easing
the terms of its database
and application server
software for customers
who are integrating
multi-core systems into
their IT infrastructures. Jul. 15, 2005 01:30 PM Reads: 5,496 Replies: 1 | Oracle Acquires Another
Company By Oracle News Desk Oracle continued its
recent acquisition
strategy, buying
privately-held
ProfitLogic, a provider
of Retail Profit
Optimization solutions.
ProfitLogic's software
analyzes customer demand
patterns to help
retailers make inventory,
pricing and merchandising
decisions. Jul. 5, 2005 06:00 PM Reads: 4,688 Replies: 1 | "We Salute Oracle's
Commitment to EJB 3.0,"
Says Sun By Oracle News Desk 'Developers deserve the
right to work with a
variety of innovative
tools to more easily
build enterprise
applications,' said
Steven Harris, vice
president, Java Platform
Group at Oracle, as
Oracle today announced
that it will join Sun as
the co-specification lead ... Jun. 29, 2005 11:00 AM Reads: 5,572 Replies: 1 | Oracle Works With Sun on
Java Beans 3.0 By Oracle News Desk Oracle today announced
that it will join Sun
Microsystems as the
co-specification lead for
the Enterprise Java Beans
(EJB) 3.0 specification,
the cornerstone for J2EE
5.0, and will provide the
persistence technology in
the Reference
Implementation of Java
Enterprise Edition 5.0. Jun. 29, 2005 10:00 AM Reads: 3,700 Replies: 1 | Oracle Has Strong Quarter By Oracle News Desk 'Oracle's database
business delivered
another strong growth
quarter,' said Oracle
CEO, Larry Ellison. 'The
latest Gartner, IDC and
Morgan Stanley database
surveys all agree that
Oracle is increasing
database market share
while IBM's DB2 database
is in decline. Thi... Jun. 29, 2005 10:00 AM Reads: 4,399 Replies: 1 | Oracle Proposes to Lead
BPEL Effort Within
Eclipse By Oracle News Desk Oracle is proposing to
lead a tooling project
for the Business Process
Execution Language (BPEL)
standard within the
Eclipse Foundation
open-source community.
'The proposed project
underscores Oracle's
continued commitment to
making tools support for
key standards... Jun. 28, 2005 05:00 PM Reads: 8,097 Replies: 1 | Peter Zadrozny, Oracle By Oracle News Desk  JavaOne 2005 Jun. 28, 2005 09:00 AM Reads: 9,565 Replies: 2 | Rick Schultz, Oracle By Oracle News Desk  JavaOne 2005 Jun. 28, 2005 09:00 AM Reads: 10,648 | Peter Zadrozny, Oracle By Oracle News Desk  JavaOne 2005 Jun. 28, 2005 09:00 AM Reads: 4,935 | Mike Keith, Oracle By Oracle News Desk  JavaOne 2005 Jun. 28, 2005 09:00 AM Reads: 4,815 | Oracle's Rick Schultz
Talks to SYS-CON.TV at
JavaOne By Oracle News Desk Oracle Fusion Middleware
is the recently created
brand for Oracle's family
of existing middleware
products, which includes
all of the products
needed to integrate a
number of diverse
business applications.
The company's division VP
spoke with SYS-CON.TV at
the Jav... Jun. 27, 2005 04:00 PM Reads: 14,636 Replies: 1 | Oracle Buying Spree
Continues: PeopleSoft,
Retek, Now TimesTen By Oracle News Desk According to Andrew
Mendelsohn, senior vice
president of Oracle
database server
technologies, what
Oracle's high-end
customers with demanding
data-processing jobs
covet is the tools made
possible by in-memory
data storage and caching
capability. So Oracle did
th... Jun. 9, 2005 10:00 AM Reads: 6,786 | Java Meets Redmond?
Oracle & MS Side By Side
In New Orleans By Oracle News Desk Since corporate clashes
between Oracle and
Microsoft have in the
past made a joint
presentation out of the
question, it comes as a
surprise to hear that
Oracle Development Tools
User Group (ODTUG) has
just announced that
Oracle and Microsoft will
co-present at its... Jun. 9, 2005 09:45 AM Reads: 5,700 Replies: 1 | Hopes of Siebel-Oracle
Tie-up Crushed By Oracle News Desk Oracle and Siebel have
apparently had what sound
like pretty
unenthusiastic,
going-nowhere-now
takeover discussions
recently, according to
the Wall Street Journal,
which got it from
TheDeal.com, which
apparently picked up on a
lead from one of Siebel's
unhappy s... May. 9, 2005 02:00 PM Reads: 2,157 | Sun and Oracle Push
Scalable Enterprise By Oracle News Desk Oracle 10g and Sun
Solaris 10 OS provide the
foundation for the
adoption of scalable
computing, 'everything
from the desktop to the
data center,' the
companies say. Oracle
Database 10g is already
available on Solaris 10,
and the Oracle
Application Server 10g is
... May. 3, 2005 11:00 PM Reads: 5,512 | SAP Continues Oracle
Customer Pursuit By Oracle News Desk The battle rages on, as
SAP dukes it out with
Oracle for customers in
the enterprise
application market
worldwide. SAP's latest
announcement brings a new
U.S. program to European
customers as well. Apr. 25, 2005 07:00 PM Reads: 5,149 |
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