Oracle Collaboration Suite Release 2

Mark Rittman

Jul 19, 2003 • 1 min read

Oracle Collaboration Suite Release 2 is now available for download, initially for Unix and Linux and with Windows to follow.

According to CNET News.com, "The latest version of Oracle's Collaboration Suite, released Thursday, targets companies looking for lower-cost alternatives to IBM's Lotus Notes and Microsoft's Exchange, according to Oracle executives. "

This latest release of the product adds Oracle Web Conferencing to the features list, the first half of the planned realtime communications product equation, with Instant Messaging and presence awareness (free, busy, online/offline lists) due for Release 3 in early 2004.

Oracle charges a onetime named user fee of $60 for the entire suite, or $15 for an annual license per user. Pricing includes the Collaboration Suite but only limited run-time licenses for Oracle 9i database and Oracle 9i Application Server, so you can't use the packaged database and app server for other purposes. There are various other licensing options, including licensing the Web Conferencing, Email or Calendering features on their own.

Oracle have made a couple of white papers available for companies looking to migrate existing Exchange and Windows file server applications over to Collaboration Suite;

and there's a quick tour of the features of the product, together with a data sheet, over at OTN.

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