Comments on: OWB 10g Release 2 Now Available For Download

By: sugandi

sugandi — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:45:29 +0000

thx for

Steingrimsson
Mead
Rittman
Scott

be the best!!!

By: Sergi Laborda

Sergi Laborda — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 09:30:40 +0000

thanks Mark for share your knowledge.

Best Regards,

Sergi

By: Erik Ykema

Erik Ykema — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 09:16:44 +0000

Please note the page http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/2007/01/20/download-oracledi-sunopsis-from-otn/ for details about downloading a trial version of Oracle Data Integrator, the former Sunopis.

By: Mark Rittman » Looking Back to 2006, Predictions for 2007

Mark Rittman » Looking Back to 2006, Predictions for 2007 — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 18:10:23 +0000

[...] The other bit of product news was the release of Oracle Warehouse Builder 10gR2, and the purchase of Sunopsis in the last quarter of 2006. OWB 10gR2 was certainly well received, although the new pricing was a bit of a shock, but the new OLAP modelling and data profiling features particularly well received. Going into 2007, we’ll no doubt see the official release of the Sunopsis product line (Oracle are still in the process of purchasing all the individual Sunopsis country operations) and it’ll be interesting to see how Oracle position their two ETL tools – the official line is that OWB will be for Oracle database implementations, Sunopsis will be part of Oracle Fusion Middleware and positioned for customers who have heterogeneous environments. Long term, Oracle won’t be able to sustain the position of having two ETL tools, if only because they’ll spend all their time explaining to prospective customers when you should use one tool rather than the other; the other mooted plan is to merge the two codebases, and it’ll be interesting to see which tool is the predominant one – I predict it’ll be the Sunopsis code, if only because Sunopsis has a good separation of business rules and technical implementation, and it’s presumably easier to graft OWB Oracle-specific routines into a heterogeneous tool than make OWB database platform independent. [...]

By: Keith Laker

Keith Laker — Tue, 30 May 2006 17:24:00 +0000

Existing database customers that are not licensed for Developer Suite, even those on database version 9i, are now licensed for the “Core ETL” features as OWB is now included in the DB SE/SE One/EE license.
Existing Developer Suite customers are licensed for the “Core ETL” features and also the SAP connector, as this was part of Warehouse Builder 10g Release 1.
Hope this helps.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 23 May 2006 21:30:00 +0000

Christian
The way I read it, existing customers won’t automatically get the core ETL functions for free. They will still need to have licensed iDS to get OWB functionality, and, in the same way as new database customers, they’ll need to license the new ETL and Data Quality options to get the new ‘advanced’ OWB 10gR2 functionality.
That does however pose the logical conundrum though – how do existing database customers who *haven’t* licensed iDS get hold of the core OWB functionality? There doesn’t seem a legal way in which they can obtain this functionality, and whilst the fact that it’s now free would suggest that Oracle wouldn’t be auditing use of core OWB functionality too much, they did make the point of saying that only new OWB customers get this functionality free. We’ll have to wait and see…

By: Cristian Perez

Cristian Perez — Tue, 23 May 2006 21:23:00 +0000

If I’m an existing database customer, do I obtain the license automatically. I ask this, becasuse in the FAQ, in the question, “What does the new licensing model mean for existing Warehouse Builder Customers? ” , they mention only
“As of May 2006, new Database customers are licensed for the Core ETL Features..”