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Oracle moves on R statistics market with Advanced Analytics

Oracle is hoping to carve out a prominent place in the world of R, the open source statistical modelling language with roots in academia but an increasingly high profile in enterprise IT shops. It has announced a new Advanced Analytics product that ties R to its database and family of software/hardware appliances.
Oracle releases Solaris OS version 11

Oracle has updated its Unix-based operating system Solaris, adding some features that would make the OS more suitable for running cloud deployments, as well as integrating it more tightly with other Oracle products, the company announced Wednesday.
Oracle patch batch affects 'hundreds' of products

Oracle is set to release 76 patches affecting hundreds of its products as well as Java SE.
Oracle unveils 'Big Data' appliance

Oracle unveiled the Big Data Appliance, the newest addition to its line of products that combine software and hardware, during the OpenWorld conference in San Francisco yesterday.
Oracle aims new Database Appliance at small business

Oracle is hoping to capture the fancy of smaller companies enamoured with its Exadata data-processing machine after announcing the availability of a new database appliance configured for SMEs.
Oracle issues 78 patches across business application range

Oracle is planning to issue 78 patches covering a number of its software products on Tuesday, including 13 fixes for its flagship database, according to a statement posted to its website on Thursday.
Oracle Exadata machines officially endorsed for SAP applications

Oracle's Exadata X2 machines are now certified to run applications from rival SAP, following recent steps by SAP to move its customers off Oracle database platforms.
Oracle pushes out Glassfish Java application server update

GlassFish Server 3.1 features OSGi capabilities and high availability features like load balancing and failover.
Oracle to launch 5TB tape drives

Oracle is taking aim at the fast-growing storage demands of large enterprises with the latest version of its high-end tape drive, which will be able to pack 5TB of uncompressed data onto a tape cartridge.
Oracle changes WebCenter suite to improve user experience

Oracle has launched a new version of its WebCenter software to enhance the user experience

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Crucial Oracle flaw revealed, but is the problem solved?

A design decision made by Oracle architects long ago may have painted some of Oracle's largest customers into a corner. Patches have arrived, but how much will they correct?
Semantic web tools you can use now

Vince Fioramonti had an epiphany back in 2001. He realised that valuable investment information was becoming increasingly available on the web, and that a growing number of vendors were offering software to capture and interpret that information in terms of its importance and relevance.
Oracle offers compression to DBAs

Oracle's powerful new HP Oracle Database Machine comes with 168TB of storage ... and a hefty price tag to boot. But there is another to boost processing power: the company's own efficient compression technology.
Wireless LAN stress test uncovers 802.11 problems

There are competing architectures for entgerprise Wi-Fi. A rare test , carried out by a Wi-Fi pioneer, made a surprising conclusion.
Does 802.11n spell the 'end of Ethernet'?

It's faster than 100 Mbit/s and doesn't need wires. Why not use Wi-Fi for network access?
Oracle ignores data migration worries claims rival

EntepriseDB takes the opportunity provided by the recent release of 11G to have a dig at Oracle's data migration, its licensing costs, and its green claims about 11G.
Oracle looks for new 11g features to speed take-up

There's usually a reluctance from users to migrate to a new version of a product: the if-it-ain't-broke syndrome, especially when said users will have to cough a wad-load of cash for the privilege. Oracle is hoping that the features in the recently-announced 11g database will be enough to tempt customers to open their wallets - has the company offered enough?
How will 802.11n wireless LANs affect the corporate net?

Faster Wi-Fi will have knock-on effects in the infrastructure. We list them out.
How can 802.11n talk to all worlds?

How can the coming MIMO standard be backward compatible with both 802.11a, and 802.11b/g - when they don't work with each other?
Has Palm missed the boat?

It may not be the best PDA overall, but if you want your PDA to be connected, Microsoft's still the only game in town.

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What?s New in Oracle SOA Suite 11g?

Oracle SOA Suite, a member of the Oracle Fusion Middleware family of products, offers a one-stop solution for building, deploying, and managing Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA). And because Oracle SOA Suite's components are hot-pluggable, they can run in a variety of environments, allowing organizations to extend and evolve their existing environments instead of replacing them.
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Enabling agile and intelligent businesses

This paper looks at how Oracle SOA Suite 11g enables agile and intelligent businesses by providing a unique design advantage, a platform for agile and intelligent business applications and innovation for efficient IT execution.
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Optimizing storage and protecting data with Oracle Database 11g

As long as corporate information keeps increasing at such astounding rates organizations will pursue more efficient and cost effective ways to store and manage information.
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Cloud ready business intelligence

This whitepaper provides an overview of cloud computing along with Oracle?s cloud computing strategy and significant features of Oracle BI 11g that make it well suited for cloud deployments. The whitepaper also presents examples of customers who have deployed Oracle BI on the cloud.
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Oracle Database 11g for Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence

This white-paper provides an overview of Oracle?s capabilities for data warehousing, and discusses the key features and technologies by which Oracle-based business intelligence and data warehouse systems easily integrate information, perform fast queries, scale to very large data volumes and analyze any data.
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