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A Platform for Making Use of Physical and Virtual Sun Environments

Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center is the newest addition in the Oracle Enterprise Manager family. It is used to manage both physical and virtual systems, and manages across the entire system lifecycle from discovery to provisioning, updating, monitoring and management.

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Oracle Exec Says This Benefits Both Customers and Partners

Oracle plans to continue Sun’s roadmap practically unchanged, but it will move towards a direct channel model, said Nicky Sheridan, country manager at Oracle South Africa (SA), who believes this will improve service to customers and take away part of the “less value-added perspective of the business” from channel partners.

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A Few More Details on Where the Three Are Heading

In no uncertain terms, the Director of Solaris product management at Oracle Dan Roberts says OpenSolaris will continue as an open source entity and Oracle will actively support and participate in the community. There are some questions regarding which direction Oracle will take in open sourcing some of OpenSolaris’ technologies and the level of support that will be offered, but generally speaking, all is well, affirms Roberts.

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Oracle Exec Also Discusses Smart Scan to Help Solve Bottleneck Issues

Christopher Chelliah, general manager for Exadata and Appliance solutions, Oracle Asia Pacific, said the flash storage integration within the second iteration of Oracle’s Exadata Database Machine eliminates the need to source data from storage disks and cuts query processing time significantly. “Coupled with the hybrid columnar compression feature which groups data by column before compression, the flash storage can fit up to 50 terabytes of data,” said Chelliah, as reported by IDG.

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MySQL Co-founder and Others Believe So

An assessment of the Oracle-Sun acquisition in terms of the future for the open source database MySQL is presented by Steve Evans of CBR in the article “What now for MySQL?” He reviews the hard fight Oracle eventually won to become owner of MySQL, and offers why the EU’s decision should assuage some of the worries of the open source community.

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Sun’s First Month Expected to Contribute About $636 Million

Oracle’s third quarter fiscal year 2010 results will be released on Thursday, March 25th, after the close of the market. Oracle plans on hosting a conference call and live web broadcast at 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time to discuss the financial results. The live web broadcast will be available from the Oracle Investor Relations Web site.

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Now the World’s Largest Purveyor of Open Source Software

With its acquisition of Sun, Oracle is now the world’s largest purveyor of open source software. However, as Ken Hess notes on the DaniWeb Forum Index, Oracle’s support didn’t start with its purchase of InnoDB, MySQL or Sun. The company has a history of supporting free and open source software and has done much for the FOSS community.

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An Edison Group Comparative Management Costs Study

A recent study conducted by the Edison Group titled “Comparative Management Costs Study—Oracle Database 11g vs. IBM DB2 Enterprise 9.5″ quantifies how Oracle widens the manageability lead against IBM. Points made in the 78-page report: 43% annual savings in database management; typical administrative functions are 40% faster; 49% fewer steps for the same set of standard RDBMS tasks; and save up to $35,155 per year per DBA.

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A Unified Management Approach for SOA and Applications

Oracle’s SOA Governance solution strives to ease the transition of an organization to service-oriented architecture (SOA). The solution automates essential SOA governance processes, regardless of the status or progress of an SOA transformation. The most recent release is Oracle SOA Governance 11g, which Oracle states is the “most complete, unified approach for governing service oriented architecture and application integration projects.”

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Most Recent and Popular Ones Listed

The Oracle-Sun downloads page offers the latest downloads along with a list of the top software visitors have downloaded. The page also offers its featured downloads, such as Java, NetBeans, GlassFish, JavaFX, OpenOffice.org, VirtualBox, and more. This article lists the most recent and top downloads, and links to access them.

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