Oracle Delivers Distributed Oracle® Warehouse Management

Customers Gain More Flexibility, Efficiencies and Control
Redwood Shores, CA.- Oracle today announced the latest release of Oracle® Warehouse Management. This release provides customers the flexibility to deploy Oracle Warehouse Management as a distributed solution.
Now, customers can take advantage of the latest industry-leading warehouse management capabilities from Oracle without upgrading to the latest version of the Oracle E-Business Suite.
As a distributed offering, Oracle Warehouse Management also supports earlier versions of the Oracle E-Business Suite, and allows for 24x7 warehouse operations during ERP upgrades or maintenance cycles.

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Intelligent Hospital Systems and MIQS Saluted as Laureates by Computerworld Honors Program

Sybase, Inc., a company engaged in delivering enterprise and mobile software, announced that two of its customers -- Intelligent Hospital Systems and MIQS -- have been named winners of the 21st Century Achievement Award, presented by the Computerworld Honors Program.

They are among the 17 Sybase customers recognized as laureates by the program this year.

According to a release, for over two decades, Computerworld has acknowledged those individuals and organizations that have used information technology to benefit society. With the addition of these 17 laureates, the number of Sybase customers and partners bearing the laureate title over the years has now reached a total of 319.

Free SQL Server tools that might make your life a little easier

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Seven Tips for SQL Server Production DBAs

Because SQL Server has been around for quite a while, there are many tools and techniques available to help you use it—so many that you might not even be aware of them. Here are seven tips on how you might use some of the available tools and techniques to make your job as a SQL Server production DBA easier.

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Oracle Set to Release Long-awaited Fusion Middleware 11g

Oracle is planning to finally release its long-simmering Fusion Middleware 11g portfolio during a July 1 launch event in Washington, D.C.

Company President Charles Phillips and Senior Vice President Thomas Kurian will deliver keynotes, and sessions are scheduled for WebCenter Suite 11g, the company's portal platform; Identity Management 11g and SOA Suite 11g. Oracle is also planning to discuss WebLogic Suite 11g, its application server, as well as its application grid technology

more at http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/166054/oracle_set_to_release_longawaited_fusion_middleware_11g.html

IBM Honors Eight Employees with Highest Technical Award

IBM (NYSE: IBM) has elevated eight employees to the title of IBM Fellow -- its most prestigious technical honor -- acknowledging their important contributions, industry-leading innovations and collaboration with clients and business partners worldwide.
"IBM Fellows have invented some of the industry's most useful and profitably applied technologies -- much of the computer technology we use today," said Samuel J. Palmisano , IBM chairman, president and chief executive officer. "Our 2009 Fellows were handpicked out of thousands to join this elite and distinguished group of IBM's finest innovators. Thanks to their talent, initiative and sheer passion, I know that IBM's heritage as an innovation company -- the innovation company -- is in good hands."

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Why Migrate to SQL Server 2008: Considerations Before Making the Move

This eGuide, brought to you by SearchSQLServer.com and Dell, will outline some key considerations before making the move to SQL Server 2008. Find out if upgrading to SQL Server 2008 is right for your business as well as some key security and compliance features.

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Sun tests new Java Store, Java Warehouse

Sun Microsystems Inc. has opened a test version of its Java Store, which it bills as a Web site where developers can connect with millions of computer users who run Java on their desktop.

Similar to Apple Inc.'s successful App Store, the site is designed to give consumers an easy way to download Java programs. A beta version of the store launched today with a few applications -- a Java version of the RuneScape online role-playing game and a Java-based Twitter client called Twitter FX -- but developers will have until the Java Store's public launch at the end of this year to add programs to it.

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Microsoft, Amazon and Oracle lead techs higher

The tech sector battled back into the black after opening on a shaky note Tuesday, although major semiconductor shares were mired in negative territory.

Having dipped into the red at the opening bell, the Nasdaq Composite Index (COMP) recovered and was lately up 0.3% to 1,833, powered by gains in Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), Amazon.com (AMZN) and Oracle Corp. (ORCL) shares.

The Morgan Stanley High Tech 35 Index (MSH) was down nearly 0.7%, while the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index ($SOX) gave up more than 3% on losses in Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD), Intel Corp. (INTC) and Applied Materials Inc. (AMAT) shares.

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Oracle's Ellison to speak for first time on Sun deal

Oracle Corp Chief Executive Larry Ellison on Tuesday will make his first public speech since his software company announced plans to buy Sun Microsystems Inc.

Ellison is scheduled to speak alongside Sun founder Scott McNealy at a Sun users conference in San Francisco at about 12:30 p.m. EDT, according to a spokesperson for Oracle.

Ellison may use the opportunity to disclose details of his plans for integrating Sun into Oracle, the world's No. 3 software maker. He has said little about the merger since announcing the unexpected deal in April.

In a May 7 interview with Reuters, Ellison said that he intended to hold on to Sun's struggling hardware business and that he was confident he could make it profitable.

more at http://www.reuters.com/article/CMPTRS/idUSN0250744420090602

Neverfail(R) Protects Businesses From Downtime During Hurricane Season

Galveston County, Texas and Frilot L.L.C. Latest Customers in Hurricane-Prone Regions Using Neverfail to Ensure Continuous Uptime of Mission-Critical Applications

AUSTIN a leading global software company providing affordable continuous availability and disaster recovery solutions, today announced that its software is being used by customers in hurricane-prone regions to protect their mission-critical applications from costly downtime in the event of a natural disaster. Galveston County, Texas and Frilot L.L.C., a New Orleans-based law firm, are just two of the latest customers implementing Neverfail's solutions as a vital step in their hurricane preparedness plans.

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Zmanda Launches Cloud-Ready Solution for MySQL Databases

Zmanda™, the leader in open source backup and recovery software, today announced that Zmanda Recovery Manager (ZRM) for MySQL now supports popular cloud platforms. Using ZRM, MySQL databases, including those running on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), can now be backed up to a destination of choice, including a remote cloud storage service. ZRM also allows on-premises MySQL databases to be backed up to the upcoming Sun Cloud Storage Service, which enables DBAs to create disaster recovery archives of databases on a flexible, secure and open public cloud.

Cloud experts from Sun and Zmanda will present a technical webinar entitled, “Cloud Computing for DBAs,” on June 9, 2009 at 1:00 p.m. PDT. Complete information about the webinar can be found at: http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/web-seminars/display-353.html

Microsoft: SQL Server 2008 vs. Oracle RAC Comparison

Microsoft is little shy of going against competitors by taking a shot at their products, and Oracle is just the latest firm to come into its focus. The Redmond-based company has put together and published a comparison involving SQL Server and Oracle Real Application Clusters. The whitepaper, which is set up to be a competitive review from Microsoft, is available for download here. The software giant is attempting to convince database customers that SQL Server 2008 is more suitable for them when compared to Oracle RAC. Of course that just like virtualization solutions and Windows PCs, Microsoft is touting the price advantage associated with its data platform.

“In the current economic climate, where value for money is paramount and IT budgets are being cut, the Microsoft SQL Server database program represents a wiser investment because it can meet the same requirements as an equivalent Oracle RAC installation at a much lower cost. The lower cost is achievable due to advances in hardware technology that make it possible to meet the resource requirements of most applications by using commodity hardware, such as multi-core CPUs,” reads an excerpt from the whitepaper.

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