Expand gives Oracle a boost
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Claims big speed-up for apps over WANs Expand Networks has developed an Oracle-specific software module for its Compass WAN acceleration gear, and claims that beta testers and its own labs are reporting anything from five to 65 times performance gain as a result.â¦
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Oracle, the world's second largest software producer, saw profits jump 16% to $509m (Â£283m) in the first half of the year on strong sales of its core database products.
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Oracle Corp. ORCL.O on Tuesday  reported a 16 percent rise in quarterly net income as the  world's second largest software company benefited from steady  demand for its flagship database software.
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Oracle on Tuesday announced a 16 percent increase in its first-quarter net income, attributing the gain to demand for its database software, Oracle Database 10g.
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The business software maker hopes to prod rival Oracle into raising its current bid by $1.5 billion.
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(InfoWorld) - OpenLogic announced Friday it has expanded its library of open-source software packages as part of its OpenLogic Enterprise 4.6 platform, adding key AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) technologies. Enterprise features the OpenLogic Certified Library, which is a repository of open-source packages that are supported by OpenLogic, the company said.Â  With release 4.6 of the platform, the number of open-source packages supported increases to 300 packages, from 270 packages previously. Additions include the AJAX projects: Dojo, Google Web Toolkit, and Icefaces. Among the other projects added are MySQL 5.0.37 and Apache HTTP Server 2.2.2. "[Software packages in Enterprise] are provided as a library to enterprises that want to use certified open source from a trusted source, and we provide support, indemnification, and updates," to everything in the library, said Kim Weins, senior vice president of marketing and products at OpenLogic. "As open source is spread, companies see the value of using open source, but they need a way to manage it and reduce the risk," she said. AJAX technologies are being added because of enterprise interest in them, she said. With the new release, OpenLogic also streamlined the installation experience so that users can be up and running in less than 30 minutes. Users also can pick and choose which open-source packages they want to install instead of having to install the entire library. OpenLogic sells subscriptions to Enterprise as well as technical support. With its Enterprise 4.6 product, OpenLogic is making the right choices in what to add, said analyst Jay Lyman of The 451 Group. But the company faces the challenge of reaching more enterprises, he said. "To me, their challenge is to transform from a high number of customers who are developers and transition to customers that are larger enterprises who are open source users," Lyman said. The company, Lyman said, also faces growing competition from such companies as dbaDirect, which provides data management infrastructure services. But OpenLogic still offers a larger breadth of open-source offerings, he said. The company will make its OpenLogic Discovery tool, a free, downloadable product that scans a user's systems to see what open source software has been installed, available next week. "The first thing companies want to do is gain an inventory of what open source has been installed in their organization," Weins said. OpenLogic also plans to offer free inventory analysis for as many as 500 machines at user site and provide a report on what is on the systems. This will be a hosted service.
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InfoWorld - Oracle Corp.&#39;s launch of new releases of its five application families was a surprisingly sober affair, designed to restate the vendor&#39;s May 2006 pledge to continue to enhance all of the software products.
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Rob Richards has posted his own review of the Packt Publishing book "PHP Oracle Web Development" to his blog today.   Overrall I would have to say that PHP Oracle Web Development is a good book for a PHP developer needing to get up to speed quickly working with an Oracle database. [...] The only place I found the book lacking was the initial setup of the environment.   The environment they chose to go with was a Windows setup which caused him problem when he tried to compile with the oci8 extensions - libraries weren't found where they were needed. His solution? Setting his ORACLE_HOME to the right location then all was well.
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Oracle just closed out another impressive quarter, and it may just be getting warmed up.
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Oracle Corp. is finally bringing to the North American market its Oracle E-Business Suite Special Edition, a midmarket-aimed package of pre-installed, preconfigured software from its 11i suite of business applications.
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Strong Q2 software sales pushed Oracle's total revenue up 28 percent to $5.3 billion.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Oracle at the OpenWorld conference here on Tuesday is making several product rollouts, including a new version of its database and grid computing enhancements.
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BUSINESS software maker Oracle&#39;s quarterly earnings just exceeded analyst expectations, overcoming sluggish sales in applications the company hopes to remedy through its takeover bid for rival PeopleSoft.
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The tool makes it easier for Oracle users with limited programming experience to build, deploy and manage secure Web applications with information contained in Oracle databases.
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Oracle Corp. on Tuesday reported a 16 percent rise in quarterly net income as the world's second largest software company benefited from steady demand for its flagship database software.
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Oracle Corp.   boosted its offer for Indian banking software provider i-flex  Solutions Ltd.  to $1.3 billion, driving up i-flex  shares 17 percent to a record high.
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Oracle logged major gains in new license revenue for applications, which rose by 63%, and for database and middleware products, which saw a 28% increase.