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Oracle Preps Major BI Revamp This Summer : "Charles Phillips, president
of Oracle Corp, said the company is planning to roll out significant upgrades to
its business intelligence (BI) and online analytic processing (OLAP) tools later
this summer. In an SG Securities Webcast recently, Phillips told analysts to
expect "a major revamp of our product line coming out over […]

Oracle in talks to buy Siebel
: "Oracle is in talks to buy Siebel Systems for a price tag that could reach $5 Billion The Daily Deal reports. The high-level discussions between the two companies have been confirmed by insiders and industry analysts, but are preliminary and could still break down, according to the news […]

Oracle Rebrands Middleware As Fusion :
"Oracle is slapping a new "Fusion" moniker on its array of middleware and
development tools. "Oracle Fusion Middleware" to be formally announced Monday,
will be the umbrella brand for some 32 products including Oracle’s J2EE server,
portal, data integration, application development, business intelligence,
identity management, and collaboration offerings, said Rick Schultz, vice
president of product […]

Forbes.com : "Something’s In The Water At Oracle" : "NEW YORK - As
evidenced by our story on Keynote Systems and Umang Gupta, Oracle is fast
becoming a breeding ground for ambitious executives to gain experience, then
jump ship for a corner office elsewhere … Whatever
the reason, you can be sure that more sailors will jump the Oracle […]

The New York Times: "May I buy your beloved pet dog, just so I can take
him around back and shoot him? That’s how the chief executive of PeopleSoft,
Craig Conway, described Oracle’s hostile bid for his company, which Oracle
intends to use to move PeopleSoft customers to its own software.
Oracle’s takeover tale has entered its 16th […]

Following on from Customer
Data Hub, Oracle have just announced that Product Data Hub will be available
in 2005. According
to James Niccolai for IDG News Service, "Meanwhile, Oracle also
plans to release a rival offering, called Product Data Hub, later this year or
early in 2005. The Product Data Hub will be based on the same idea as its
Customer […]

If
you’ve been to an Oracle technology day recently, or read some of the

articles in Oracle Magazine or on
AppsNet,
you’ll probably have heard about “Oracle Information Architecture”. So what is
it, and how is it shaping Oracle’s  product
development and marketing?

Oracle Information Architecture is a model that describes how Oracle’s
products can be used to create a ‘modern, […]

"A
couple weeks back, we brought word that Oracle planned to make a JavaOne splash
by acquiring Collaxa and that is exactly what the company has done today. Oracle
has secured Collaxa’s business process management software for an undisclosed
sum. The deal has seen Collaxa’s BPEL (Business Process Execution Language)
Server product turn into Oracle BPEL Process Manager overnight. The […]

There’s
a couple good articles in the
new issue of
Oracle Magazine.
"Perform
Without Waiting" by Arup Nanda looks at diagnosing performance problems
using the wait interface in Oracle 10g (see also
this
article by Robin Schumacher
for more on the 10g wait interface), whilst
"Getting
Good Advice About Access" by Kimberly Floss looks at the the
SQL Access Advisor in Oracle 10g.

"Oracle will finish switching its 9,000-person in-house programming staff
to Linux by the end of 2004, the database powerhouse said Wednesday."
writes Stephen Shankland
for CNET News.com. "In October, the company finished the Linux transition for
the 5,000 programmers of its Oracle Applications software. Now the
transformation has begun for those who work on the database product, said Wim
Coekaerts, director […]