Full Oracle Fusion due 2009, beta 2008
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Customizations will break Exclusive Oracle will hit its goal of delivering Fusion applications next year in name only, with applications ready for testing but the full suite not due until 2009.â¦
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Software giant says the final version will be available next year.
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InfoWorld - Oracle at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco the week of Dec. 5 plans to unveil Oracle Integration, a product that combines the company&#8217;s application server with several other technologies for integration and enablement of SOAs (service-oriented architectures).
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Will developers be happy as Larry? Oracle was banging its drum hard today, as it launched version 11g of its eponymous Database product.â¦
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Yesterday the The Inquirer linked  to me talking about the performance of hsqldb .  "One noteworthy addition to this upcoming 2.0 OO.o release is the HSQL Embedded database engine a fast Java-based embedded database engine that once surprised everyone by beating IBM's Cloudscape (now also open sourced) and even C++ databases. Also included is a user friendly database application dubbed "OpenOffice Base" which allows you to effortlessly create both databases, queries and reports using helpful "wizards". Current 1.x versions of OpenOffice lack an embedded database and only the commercial StarOffice product includes one in the form of the bundled "Adabas D" licensed from Software AG, but even t ...
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Blog: Software maker says it's ready with a near-final "release candidate" version, which will find its way on to servers later this year.
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Oracle is expected to unveil updates to its software's content management and business intelligence functions, as well as other enhancements at next week's Oracle OpenWorld user event.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Oracle and VMwareÂ  are developing an easier way to install and configure Oracle's software, executives from the two companies said at the Oracle OpenWorld conference Thursday.ADVERTISEMENTSolaris 10(TM) OS: Position your business ten moves ahead.Solaris 10 OS has arrived and provides even more reasons for the world's most demanding businesses to operate on this, the leading UNIX platform. Like the fact you can run Linux and Solaris applications side-by-side and run the same OS on SPARC(R), AMD Opteron(TM), and Intel processor-based systems. Discover more reasons and how Solaris 10 OS can move your business ahead today.
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(InfoWorld) - SAP reacted quickly and angrily to statements made by Oracle Chief Executive Officer Larry Ellison during his company's quarterly results meeting Tuesday. Ellison's statementsÂ about SAP's product and acquisition strategy are "a complete misrepresentation," said Bill Wohl, SAP's vice president of product and solutions public relations, in a statement. Oracle's CEO said his company's Fusion middleware is "years ahead" of SAP's rival NetWeaver product, and that "NetWeaver is still relatively new and still incomplete." He also said, "SAP has delayed the next release of its applications until 2010," and "They'll be two full years behind our Fusion release." Wohl said "Oracle's next-generation applications exist only in PowerPoint and won't be delivered until 2008 or beyond." He called Oracle statements about both its own products and SAP's "to be inconsistent and misleading." He said that Oracle made conflicting statements about Fusion's development. "In January, Oracle claimed they were halfway to Fusion and two weeks ago they said they wereÂ not even halfway doneÂ -- Oracle needs to adopt one version of the truth, and be honest with the market on its actual progress."
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(InfoWorld) - Oracle is making the whole of its TopLink Java persistence framework freely available as part of the vendor's increased involvement in the open-source development tools Eclipse Foundation community, the company announced Tuesday. The database, middleware, and applications vendor also proposed a new Eclipse project dubbed EclipseLink aimed at providing a set of persistence services to be used in Java and OSGi (Open Services Gateway initiative) development environments. The starting point for the EclipseLink persistence platform project will be the existing code base of TopLink. Oracle made the announcements Tuesday at the EclipseCon conference in Santa Clara, California. The vendor has also boosted the level of its membership in the open-source organization, becoming an Eclipse Foundation board member and a strategic developer, according to Rick Schultz, vice president of Oracle's Fusion middleware. "This is a continued evolution of our Eclipse strategy," he said. "EclipseLink will be the first Oracle-led Eclipse run-time project." A member of the Eclipse Foundation since 2002, Oracle already leads three Eclipse tooling projects around JavaServer Faces, JPA (Dali Java Persistence API), and BPEL (business process execution language). TopLink first appeared as a commercial product in 1994 from The Object People, which was later acquired by WebGain. In 2002, Oracle acquired the TopLink technology from WebGain. TopLink's persistence architecture includes object-to-relational, object-to-XML, and enterprise information system data access through such standardsÂ as JPA, Java API for XML Binding, Service Data Objects, and the Java Connector Architecture. Oracle had already open sourced part of TopLink, the object-to-relational mapping component, as TopLink Essentials. After that move received "a really positive response" from the developer community, the vendor decided to take the next step and make all of the software's source code freely available, Schultz said. In terms of competition for TopLink and the proposed EclipseLink project, he pointed to two Apache Software Foundation open-source projects -- Hibernate and OpenJPA. Schultz said TopLink has a wider breadth than the Apache projects, which he positioned as more specific to object-to-relational mapping. Oracle will continue to offer TopLink as a commercial product with the Eclipse project providing the basis for that in the future, according to Steve Harris, vice president of Oracle's Java Platform Group. As well as working with the Eclipse Foundation, Oracle also positions its JDeveloper development tool as an alternative to the organization's Eclipse rival offering. "We let developers choose JDeveloper or the Eclipse environment," Schultz said.
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Blog: After nearly a nine-month beta, Oracle Database 11g is set to launch Wednesday.
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Still no stack Seven months after purchasing Sleepycat Software, Oracle has updated the newest member of its embedded database family.â¦
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Unwilling to sit back and let Oracle (Quote, Chart) grab all of the attention this week, BEA Systems (Quote, Chart) said a beta of its new application server, WebLogic Server 9.0, will be available for download next week.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Data integration will be one of the major themes at Oracle's OpenWorld conference this week.Â
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(InfoWorld) - On Monday, Oracle unveiled an addition to its Fusion middleware, Oracle Data Integrator, to help users quickly bring the huge amounts of information in different databases and applications across their organizations together in a single place. Data Integrator is based on technology Oracle acquired when itÂ purchased French data integration company SunopsisÂ in October, according to Ashish Mohindroo, senior product director for Oracle's Fusion middleware. Customers can use Data Integrator to pull data from different sources into one location, helping them with data analysis and queries in BI and data warehousing applications. But the tool is not limited to BI, Mohindroo said. It can also be helpful for users engaged in master data management, SOA, and BAM (business activity monitoring) as well as application migration and consolidation, he said. One of the main reasons Oracle bought Sunopsis was to improve Fusion's ability to bring in data from non-Oracle products. Data Integrator supports databases, data warehouses, and applications from vendors including IBM, Microsoft, NCR's Teradata, Netezza, and Sybase. Mohindroo wouldn't comment on Oracle's plans to support Hewlett-Packard's offerings other than to note that HP continues to be a partner.Â HP has been ramping up its data warehousing business recently, debuting its Neoview data warehouse software, server, and storage product family in October. Data Integrator competes with Informatica's PowerCenter data integration software and IBM's rival Information Serverm, which it gained through theÂ 2005 $1.1 billion purchase of Ascential. Oracle inherited an OEM relationship with Informatica through itsÂ acquisition of applications vendor Siebel. In October, Oracle and Informatica reaffirmed that partnership, extending it for four years. The release of Data Integrator won't affect that relationship, Mohindroo said. "We offer it as an alternative to Data Integrator," he added. "Customers can pick and choose." Naturally, Data Integrator is also optimized to work with Oracle's own database, application server, SOA Suite, and BAM software. Customers can use the tool to build data warehouses that are then queried by Oracle's Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition. Oracle shipped the most recent version of that software last week with a focus on tighter integration with Oracle's own applications and new native access to applications rival SAP's Business Information Warehouse. Oracle BI Suite EE 10g Release 3.0 also features a lot of work the vendor has done on the usability side, said Rick Schultz, vice president of Oracle Fusion middleware, including enhanced integration with Microsoft's Office desktop applications suite and drag-and-drop layout editing. Oracle Data Integrator is now shipping at a cost of $12,000 per database target CPU and $4,000 per database source CPU. Users can also try out an evaluation copy of the software online. Â
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On February 27, 2008, Microsoft will jointly release Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008, kicking off what it calls a "launch wave" with hundreds of events worldwide. Microsoft will pitch the products as a platform for next-generation Web service applications.
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Preview two Oracle has come a step closer to releasing the next version of its popular Java integrated development environment (IDE), by posting a second technology preview.â¦