15 articles in this selection
| 2010/02/04 Rittman Mead Consulting - A Quik Look at QlikView
Outside the world of Oracle, one of the rising stars of the BI world has been Qliktech, the Swedish software company behind QlikView. QlikView is one of a new breed of desktop, in-memory BI tools that are being evaluated by customers as alternatives to traditional relational query tools such as Oracle BI Enterprise Edition and OLAP servers such as Essbase or Oracle OLAP. So what is QlikView, and how does it compare to Oracle's BI tools?...
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| 2009/12/15 Oracle Responds To MySQL Purchase Concerns
Slashdot discussion about a statement that Oracle released to address some of the issues surrounding the MySQL purchase. Among their commitments, Oracle says they intend to continue releasing MySQL under the GPL, allow vendors to produce 'any-license' third-party engines, maintain the Reference Manual, invest millions into the product, and create a 'customer advisory board.' The pledges are still not enough for some, however....
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| 2009/12/15 Widenius Warns Against MySQL Falling Into Oracle's Hands
Slashdot posting about a blog post from MySQL co-founder Monty Widenius calling for help to "save MySQL from Oracle's clutches." While the US DoJ approved Oracle's purchase of Sun back in August, the European Commission has been less forthcoming. Widenius points out that Oracle has been using their customers to put pressure on the EC, and he questions Oracle's commitment to MySQL, saying their vague promises aren't good enough....
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| 2009/06/29 Oracle Adds Zest to SQL Developer with Standalone Data Modeling Tool
Oracle has paved the way for developers to more easily build data models that create and update existing databases. The Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler, which integrates with Oracle SQL Developer, arrived today as a standalone tool that supports logical, relational, multi-dimensional and data type modeling....
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| 2009/06/21 With Virtual Iron, Oracle Bought a Big Loss
Did Oracle recently buy Virtual Iron, a maker of virtualization software, for its talent? Perhaps so, because the company certainly hasn’t been selling a lot of software, according to financial documents obtained by The Times.
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| 2008/10/01 Telecoms and Software News
During the course of its big OpenWorld conference last week, Oracle regularly invoked the topic of service-oriented architecture (SOA). That fact was hardly surprising, given that SOA underlies much of Oracle's efforts to leverage its acquired BEA technologies, is a key foundation for its Application Integration Architecture, and is setting much of the technical agenda for the vendor's next-generation Fusion applications. Sorely missing from OpenWorld, however, was a consistent and overarching message from Oracle about its multi-faceted SOA capabilities and its approach to the SOA 'market'....
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| 2008/09/15 SOA makes processing of recruits easier
The U.S. Military Entrance Processing Command processes and qualifies individuals applying for military service and, as a result, must communicate with the military services’ recruiting facilities, the FBI, state motor vehicle departments, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the Social Security Administration and medical laboratories. The command’s Military Information Resource System (MIRS) is accessed by 3,000 employees and 20,000 armed forces recruiters. A service-oriented architecture based on Oracle SOA, business process management and application development software has been instrumental in helping the command more efficiently exchange data with business partners....
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| 2008/01/16 Oracle, Sweetening Terms, Buys BEA
The Oracle Corporation said Wednesday that it would acquire BEA Systems for $8.5 billion, just three months after BEA handily rejected its original unsolicited bid.
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