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    Oracle CEO Larry Ellison on Wednesday unveiled its first ever hardware product a storage server with embedded software designed to work with the company's databases and be used in a grid. The Exadata programmable storage server aims to put database intelligence next to each drive.

  • User group tips new Oracle products

    Oracle's Australian user group is tipping the software giant could announce new versions of its e-business suite, application server and database at its annual OpenWorld conference in the US next week.

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    SQL Server 2005 will cost more but why aren't customers complaining?

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    A week and a half after closing the PeopleSoft acquisition, Oracle unveils plans for the product lines it will support, a new development road map and several executive shifts.

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    Oracle has promised there would no immediate change to Hyperion's product plans following its US$3.3 billion buyout of the business intelligence vendor.

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    Whenever the industry's top execs come together to speak to the masses, expectations are high. This year's Oracle OpenWorld conference provided an insight into which vendors have intriguing grand plans, and which ones prefer to rely on marketing bluff.

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    Is it a truck? Is it a giant portable wind tunnel? Well, yes -- but it's also a mobile datacentre with a maximum capacity of 4.1 petabytes of storage, which would easily hold an awful lot of high-res Superman footage.

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    The idea of getting a robust, scalable operating system for free hasn't clicked with many enterprises -- until now.

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    Bug hunter David Litchfield says the Oracle community shouldn't be so smug when it comes to database security. He represents NGS Software, which has serviced Oracle in the past and Microsoft at present.

  • A new day for business security

    Today's systems increasingly blend the digital and the physical -- and the convergence is spawning industry alliances that might have seemed unusual in the past.

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  • Duelling databases: Four apps tested

    Databases are by no means an easy product category to understand. Many of the big players now offer free or "light" versions of their databases, but comparing them all is no easy task -- as we found out.

  • Oracle Collaboration Suite: All in the database

    Oracle is betting on the lure of cost savings and the strength of its database to help sell its new product, Oracle Collaboration Suite. Get an advance look at this competitor to Microsoft Exchange.

  • Beyond the Database

    Boldly going where no database has gone before, Oracle's Oracle8i Release 3 is a lot more than a database. Oracle8i is now also a file, mail, Web and Java2 Enterprise Edition application server.

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