<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Latest News from ORACLE DEVELOPER&apos;S JOURNAL</title><link>http://oracle.sys-con.com/</link><description>Latest News from ORACLE DEVELOPER&apos;S JOURNAL</description><copyright>Copyright 2008 SYS-CON Media Inc.</copyright><generator>ORACLE DEVELOPER&apos;S JOURNAL</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 11:02:00 EST</lastBuildDate><image><title>Latest News from ORACLE DEVELOPER&apos;S JOURNAL</title><url>http://res.sys-con.com/section/152/orcale-mag-logo-145.jpg</url><link>http://oracle.sys-con.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>VMware and Lenovo Announce Agreement to Increase Adoption of VMware Virtualization in China</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/551239.htm</guid><link>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/551239.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 07:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/551239_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[VMware and Lenovo announced an agreement to increase the adoption of VMware virtualization in China. Lenovo will sell, distribute and support the VMware Infrastructure 3 platform on Lenovo server systems. This partnership enables businesses and organizations in China to leverage both the performance and scalability of Lenovo servers with VMware virtualization to reduce operating expenses, improve business continuity, strengthen security and reduce their power consumption and carbon footprint.]]></description></item><item><title>Microsoft Will End Up Buying Yahoo Anyway</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/558502.htm</guid><link>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/558502.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 12:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/558502_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Yahoo! founders Jerry Yang and David Filo received stupid advice from their investment bank advisers and blew their chance to close the deal with Microsoft as of this Sunday morning. Neither Yang nor Filo are experts on how to sell a company in a multi-billion dollar deal. They have relied on their investment bankers and advisers since the negotiations started with Microsoft. The difference between the offered price of $33 and the asking price of $40 per share is roughly $1.4b per share, so it's not small potatoes.]]></description></item><item><title>Embotics CEO to Present at SYS-CON&apos;s Virtualization Conference &amp; Expo</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/554022.htm</guid><link>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/554022.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 10:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/554022_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Virtualization is not just about server consolidation any more; as virtual infrastructure grows, there's an entire Virtualization Lifecycle for IT to manage. SYS-CON Events announced today that the  President & CEO of Embotics Corporation, Jay Litkey, will be giving a top breakout session at SYS-CON's 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo in San Jose, CA (20-21 November, 2008).]]></description></item><item><title>Microsoft To Keynote 4th International Virtualization Conference &amp; Expo</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/551735.htm</guid><link>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/551735.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 10:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/551735_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Mike Neil is general manager for virtualization strategy in the Windows Server Division at Microsoft. Mike is focused on the delivery of the Windows virtualization technology, including Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, Microsoft Hyper-V Server and Virtual PC 2007. Mike also directs the technical enablement of Microsoft's broader vision for virtualization, to include virtualization management tools and virtualized desktop infrastructure. Prior to this role, Mike was responsible for Microsoft?s server and PC virtualization efforts since 2003.]]></description></item><item><title>VMware CTO Stephen Herrod to Keynote at SYS-CON&apos;s Virtualization Conference in New York City</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/551757.htm</guid><link>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/551757.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 10:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/551757_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[SYS-CON Events has announced that VMware CTO Stephen Herrod is to give the Morning Keynote on June 24 at the 3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo being held June 23-24, 2008, in New York City. Herrod will be taking a 35,000 foot view of the fast-expanding virtualization space, and the lasting role that software that creates and manages virtual machines is now destined to play in the Enterprise IT landscape.]]></description></item><item><title>SYS-CON&apos;s Virtualization Conference &amp; Expo Europe to Debut in London</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/557621.htm</guid><link>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/557621.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 10:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/557621_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[International Virtualization Conference & Expo faculty alumni include such notable speakers as: Brian Stevens, CTO of Red Hat; Stephen Herrod, CTO of VMware; Vern Brownell, founder and CEO of Egenera; Simon Crosby, founder and CTO of Citrix XenSource; Hubert Yoshida, vice president and CTO of Hitachi Data Systems; Jeffrey Nick, CTO of EMC; David Greschler, director of Virtualization Strategy for Microsoft; Hal Stern, vice president and distinguished engineer for Sun Microsystems; Andrew Hillier, founder and CTO of CiRBA; Alex Vasilevsky, founder and CEO of Virtual Iron; Jack Zubarev, founder and COO of SWsoft; Stephen Pollack, founder and CEO of PlateSpin; Brett Adam, founder and CEO of rPath; Kevin Brown, founder and CEO of Kidaro; Bob Lozano, founder and CEO of Appistry; and Harry Ruda, founder and CEO of Desktone.]]></description></item><item><title>Exclusive Q&amp;A with Simon Crosby, CTO of Citrix &amp; Founder of XenSource</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/554197.htm</guid><link>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/554197.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 21:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/554197_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA['Virtualization is already widely used, but primarily for the first-order benefit, namely server consolidation,' notes Citrix CTO Simon Crosby, in this Exclusive Q&A with Virtualization Journal. 'The second-order benefits of agility, availability and manageability of the IT stack are now becoming better understood,' Crosby continues, 'and as a consequence virtualization has moved from a tactical tool for gaining immediate savings, to become a key strategic theme for every IT department.']]></description></item><item><title>APC Named &quot;Silver Sponsor&quot; of Virtualization Conference &amp; Expo</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/519452.htm</guid><link>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/519452.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 21:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/519452_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[In February 2007, APC and MGE UPS Systems combined to form a $3.5 billion (2.4 billion) Critical Power and Cooling Services business unit of Schneider Electric. The Critical Power and Cooling Services division offers the industry's most comprehensive product and solution range for critical IT and process applications in industrial, enterprise, small and medium business and home environments. The company's solutions include APC's InfraStruXure data center architecture, the comprehensive integrated power, cooling, and management solution. The company's products also include APC and MGE-brand uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), along with APC-brand precision cooling units, racks and design and management software.]]></description></item><item><title>Virtualization - Likewise Adds Oracle Linux &amp; Mainframes</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/558169.htm</guid><link>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/558169.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 06:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/558169_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Likewise, pretty much the de facto standard in cross-platform authentication these days, has added Oracle Enterprise Linux 4 and 5, Oracle's version of Red Hat, to the list of some 110 Linux, Unix and Mac platforms that it supports on a Microsoft network using Active Directory. Oracle Linux now claims 2,000 customers give or take.]]></description></item><item><title>Oracle Acquires Empirix e-TEST Suite Products</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/529341.htm</guid><link>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/529341.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 05:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/529341_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Oracle's announcement to acquire Empirix e-TEST suite solutions is a positive move for all involved. The acquisition helps Oracle round out its Enterprise Manager offering with a comprehensive testing component for pre-deployment applications. The acquisition is a natural fit for the e-TEST suite products which are architected to work with modern applications and deliver testing capabilities to both packaged and custom applications.]]></description></item><item><title>Oracle Partners Embrace Oracle Application Integration Architecture (AIA)</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/542203.htm</guid><link>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/542203.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/542203_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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 from Oracle and expert services from partners provides return-on-investment and better business value by helping customers to reduce the cost and risk associated with typical custom, one-off integrations.]]></description></item><item><title>Oracle Props Up Unbreakable Linux</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/529159.htm</guid><link>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/529159.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/529159_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Oracle is throwing its Clusterware software at its paying Unbreakable Linux support customers for free. Unbreakable Linux being Oracle's controversial year-old version of Red Hat, which it now claims has won 2,000 customers. Previously only part of Oracle's Real Applications Clusters (RAC) widgetry, Clusterware is portable cluster software that groups together individual servers so they can cooperate as a single system.]]></description></item><item><title>Oracle Goes After Salesforce</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/519699.htm</guid><link>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/519699.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 15:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/519699_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Oracle zeroed in on Salesforce.com the other day when it rolled out the latest version of Siebel's rechristened on-demand software, now called Oracle CRM On Demand 15 and targeted up to run on Blackberries with fashionable social networking and collaboration capabilities to help users find the right guy in their organization to help them close a sale.]]></description></item><item><title>Doesn&apos;t Oracle Have Its Own Virtualization Scheme?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/508952.htm</guid><link>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/508952.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/508952_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Doesn't Oracle have its own virtualization scheme? Isn't it Xen? Well, Oracle's soon-to-be takeover, BEA - the feds just okayed the merger - said Wednesday that it had teamed with VMware to deliver Java virtualization to the enterprise.]]></description></item><item><title>Saleforce.com for Sale to Oracle at $75 a Share!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/502720.htm</guid><link>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/502720.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/502720_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The Silicon Valley Watcher blog claims to have it on good authority that that shrine to software-as-a-service Salesforce.com has approached Oracle looking to get bought for $75 a share, something like $9 billion, roughly a 50% premium. And if such a deal were done, it foresees Salesforce CEO and erstwhile Larry Ellison lieutenant Marc Benioff as Ellison's natural successor.]]></description></item><item><title>Oracle to Implement Application for India&apos;s Idea Cellular</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/497979.htm</guid><link>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/497979.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/497979_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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 outsourcing partner -- IBM -- would undertake the implementation process across all channels and customer facing departments in 11 existing and two new circles of operations, Oracle said in a statement here.]]></description></item><item><title>Oracle Buys BEA - Success, Arrogance, Rise and Fall</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/43873.htm</guid><link>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/43873.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/43873_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Last week we were copied in on an internal e-mail from a software company with a market cap in excess of five billion dollars. As I read through this long e-mail thread, which included references to our company, I couldn't help but reflect on the past. I forwarded this e-mail to their CEO and he acknowledged its receipt. History is repeating itself, I realized, and I wanted to share my thoughts with our readers and with the CEO of this software company.]]></description></item><item><title>Pacific Gas and Electric Company Relies on Oracle to Power Nation&apos;s Largest Smart Meter Initiative</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/489706.htm</guid><link>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/489706.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/489706_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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 reduce greenhouse gas emissions.]]></description></item><item><title>Oracle Announces Oracle Utilities Network Management System Release 1.8.0</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/489707.htm</guid><link>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/489707.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/489707_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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 satisfaction.]]></description></item><item><title>&quot;Oracle is the Only Winner In the Sun-MySQL Deal,&quot; Claims Dvorak</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/487921.htm</guid><link>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/487921.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 07:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/487921_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA['I'm close to being convinced that Oracle wanted to buy MySQL to kill the product, but knew it couldn't pull off the stunt itself. So it sent in a stooge to do the job.' That, in a nutshell, is John Dvorak's (unqualified?) opinion on the $1BN deal last week. But his allegations of conspiracy are not cutting much mustard in the wider technology community, many of whom who regard his arguments as flawed.]]></description></item><item><title>Sun Buys MySQL, Gets Oracle for an Enemy</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/486678.htm</guid><link>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/486678.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2008 18:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/486678_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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. MySQL was supposed to go public this year but picked the easier monetization route. Sanford C. Bernstein estimates MySQL?s financial position at breakeven on $60 million-$80 million on trailing 12-month revenues although over 100 million copies of the database have been downloaded. Sun is paying $800 million cash for MySQL's stock and assuming about $200 million in options. But Sun has been known to overpay for acquisitions before. Remember its fatal $2 billion Cobalt Networks deal?]]></description></item><item><title>Oracle BEA - TIBCO Next?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/487542.htm</guid><link>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/487542.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 13:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/487542_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[With BEA gone to Oracle, the speculators have turned to TIBCO Software, figuring the smaller middleware company is likely to be swallowed by some bigger fish. Its stock shot up better than 11% on the news that Oracle was buying BEA. Its market cap is $1.4 billion.]]></description></item><item><title>Oracle Buys BEA: Oracle Fusion Middleware Gets An $8.5BN Injection of IP</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/486349.htm</guid><link>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/486349.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/486349_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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 Board of Directors of BEA Systems has unanimously approved the transaction.]]></description></item><item><title>Rocky Ride Ahead for Oracle, BEA Portal Customers</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/486919.htm</guid><link>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/486919.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/486919_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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 major shifts pending yesterday's acquisition, as four, overlapping enterprise portal products will compete for attention under Larry Ellison.]]></description></item><item><title>Sun Buys MySQL, Gets Oracle for an Enemy</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/486659.htm</guid><link>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/486659.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/486659_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description></item><item><title>Oracle Numbers Lip-Smacking Good</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/479214.htm</guid><link>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/479214.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Dec 2007 14:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/479214_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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 being down on the day and the exchange held its collective breath waiting for the company's guidance and any sign that spending is slowing. During its conference call Oracle projected new software licenses would be up 15%-25% this quarter and total revenues up 20%-23% with GAPP earnings of 23 cents-25 cents and non-GAPP earnings of 29 cents-30 cents.]]></description></item><item><title>Life after Oracle and Dave Duffield&apos;s Workday Start-Up!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/472218.htm</guid><link>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/472218.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2007 09:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/472218_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[For a company born out of a headline-grabbing clash of wills between two industry titans - one practically beloved by his users, the other, well, not so much - a company set up to pioneer the latest disruptive distribution scheme, a model likely to change the face of the software industry forever, and use chi-chi infrastructure like Linux, Java, MySQL and Tomcat, PeopleSoft founder Dave Duffield's Workday start-up sure has been a quiet little thing. So unlike the mouthy Salesforce.com. So when we found out that industry analyst Amy Wohl was going that way we asked her to report back. Here's what she says.]]></description></item><item><title>Oracle WebCenter Embraces SOA Concepts and the Latest in Web 2.0 Technology</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/478395.htm</guid><link>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/478395.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/478395_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[M&S Consulting is a technology and strategy consulting firm that delivers enterprise process and technology solutions for mission critical objectives.  As adopters of other Oracle Fusion Middleware offerings including Application Server, Portal, BI, and SOA Suite (BPEL/ESB/BAM), M&S Consulting has also embraced Oracle's new Fusion Middleware offering called ?Oracle WebCenter?. In this review, we take a closer look at the recently announced Oracle WebCenter Suite.  We checked out the capabilities that are included in the current release and mapped them to a set of requirements that are common among the majority of our customers.]]></description></item><item><title>Oracle unveils Oracle VM</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/478046.htm</guid><link>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/478046.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2007 08:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/478046_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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 including Oracle Database, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Applications are certified with Oracle VM.]]></description></item><item><title>Northern California Power Agency Teams with Oracle to Streamline Transition to Market Redesign and Technology Upgrade</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/477665.htm</guid><link>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/477665.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/477665_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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 starting early next year. NCPA will offer its Oracle XML DB research application and findings to other California utilities for free, which will save time and money for all ratepayers by facilitating implementation of this new technology.]]></description></item><item><title>Silgan Plastics Corporation Selects Applimation for Oracle E-Business Suite Data Archiving</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/477666.htm</guid><link>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/477666.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/477666_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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 most heavily used Oracle E-Business Suite modules including Inventory, WIP, BOM and Payroll.]]></description></item><item><title>The RoomPlace at Harlem Furniture Selects Oracle/OSI Consulting Partnership for Enterprise Automation</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/477669.htm</guid><link>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/477669.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/477669_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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 integration creating overall efficiencies to drive operational excellence and company growth.]]></description></item><item><title>Application Lynx Implements the Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 for a Major Financial Sector Client</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/477671.htm</guid><link>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/477671.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/477671_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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, Application Lynx deployed Oracle Human Resources Management System in just 50 days for a major Financial Sector Client.]]></description></item><item><title>Quantros Chooses Egenera for Mission Critical Oracle 10g RAC</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/477610.htm</guid><link>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/477610.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/477610_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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 processes such as benchmarking, outcomes monitoring, accreditation and compliance.]]></description></item><item><title>Oracle Fusion Middleware Delivers World Record Clustered Results</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/477467.htm</guid><link>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/477467.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 09:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/477467_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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 clustered performance results with the SPECjAppServer2004 Benchmark.(1) Reaching the highest performance ever achieved running a clustered database, this result surpassed the best SPECjAppServer2004 benchmark results from BEA WebLogic(2) by 15 percent and IBM WebSphere with IBM DB2 UDB 9.1(3) by more than 116 percent.]]></description></item><item><title>SteelEye Expands Protection to Include Oracle Enterprise Linux</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/470225.htm</guid><link>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/470225.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/470225_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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 source features contributed by SteelEye into the 2.6 Linux kernel to provide both host-based volume replication and continuous data protection.]]></description></item><item><title>Ecora Software Adds Oracle Enterprise Linux Reporting to Auditor Professional</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/472660.htm</guid><link>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/472660.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/472660_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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 includes support for Oracle Enterprise Linux, the base operating system within the newly-released Oracle VM.]]></description></item><item><title>OracleVM Enables Server Virtualization Across Enterprise</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/467291.htm</guid><link>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/467291.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/467291_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Applications are certified with Oracle VM. Backed by Oracle's support organization, customers have a single point of support for their entire virtualization environments, including Linux operating system and Oracle products.]]></description></item><item><title>BakBone Gets Certification of NetVault: Backup on Oracle Enterprise Linux</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/465535.htm</guid><link>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/465535.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/465535_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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 Linux data protection greater than ever. The Oracle Enterprise Linux certification combines BakBone?s NetVault: Backup with Oracle Unbreakable Linux support, providing mutual users with easy-to-use support for their Linux environments.]]></description></item><item><title>Oracle&apos;s Dave Chappell to Present SOA and Virtualization Session at SOA World Conference</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/442498.htm</guid><link>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/442498.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2007 12:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/442498_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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 scalability for services and applications in a way that is highly complementary to virtualization strategies . With new technologies for middle-tier data caching, load balancing and HA through service-level grid enablement, you can make your SOA bullet-proof.]]></description></item><item><title>ORACLE BEA - Oracle Pounces!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/442801.htm</guid><link>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/442801.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2007 12:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/442801_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA['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 including a substantial premium for BEA,' said Oracle President Charles Phillips.]]></description></item><item><title>ORACLE BEA - Round-Up of Early Responses</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/442847.htm</guid><link>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/442847.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2007 12:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/442847_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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 about the opening salvo by Oracle in a bid to acquire BEA Systems, launched last week.]]></description></item><item><title>ORACLE BEA - BEAS Still in the Midst of a Backdating Mess</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/442902.htm</guid><link>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/442902.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2007 12:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/442902_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA['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 development of our world-class suite of middleware. Both Oracle and BEA customers will benefit from this increase in engineering investment as they migrate to modern SOA technologies.' BEA, whose stock was down around $11 a couple months ago before Icahn entered the picture and is still in the midst of a backdating mess, isn't picking up the phone to callers and has yet to issue any public statements.]]></description></item><item><title>Oracle Open Sources PHP Driver</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/443014.htm</guid><link>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/443014.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2007 12:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/443014_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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 features like connection pooling and fast application notification so a single x86 server can support tens of thousands of database connections at higher availability.]]></description></item><item><title>ORACLE BEA - Is Oracle the New Microsoft?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/443015.htm</guid><link>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/443015.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2007 12:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/443015_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Oracle owns PeopleSoft and JD Edwards; they own SleepyCat; they own BEA; and of course they have their own enterprise database. This means they have the stack from top to bottom, with the exception of an operating system. They can take the CRM and banking and insurance and end-user apps that they now own, host them on an entire stack, and basically squeeze the middleware vendors out of existence.]]></description></item><item><title>ORACLE BEA - What Larry Wants, Larry Gets, Always!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/443102.htm</guid><link>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/443102.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2007 12:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/443102_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Here are my thoughts on this. I was expecting Alfred - who is known to be an arrogant and incompetent CEO - to run away from Larry as fast as he could. But this movie usually ends as follows. First, history repeats itself. By that I mean that Alfred should remember Larry's PeopleSoft hunt, which ended up with the PeopleSoft's CEO's head on a stick. In my humble opinion, in Act 2 of Larry's BEA hunt, we will see Alfred's head on a stick and the BEA shareholders will make the wedding plans, as always happens when Larry plans another marriage for his baby Oracle.]]></description></item><item><title>ORACLE BEA - Chuang Will Be Dragged Out Kicking and Screaming</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/443127.htm</guid><link>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/443127.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2007 12:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/443127_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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 going to get nasty and he *will* be dragged out kicking and screaming.']]></description></item><item><title>Oracle&apos;s Rakesh Saha to Speak on Mashup Frameworks at SOA World Conference &amp; Expo</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/444416.htm</guid><link>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/444416.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2007 12:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/444416_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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 created just-in-time by empowered enterprise business users and by simply combining SOA-enabled information sources and services or SOBAs on the Intranet and Internet.]]></description></item><item><title>ORACLE BEA - Expert Recommends Friendly Acquisition By HP, Not Stalker Oracle</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/446325.htm</guid><link>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/446325.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2007 12:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/446325_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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, Hailstone notes, adding 'The combination of HP and BEA, if executed well, would create a significant force in the industry and a natural balance to the otherwise dominant IBM and Oracle.']]></description></item><item><title>ORACLE BEA: Chuang Rejects Oracle&apos;s Hostile Bid</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/446382.htm</guid><link>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/446382.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2007 12:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://oracle.sys-con.com/read/446382_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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-a-share offer as undervalued.]]></description></item></channel></rss>