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Today, Larry Ellison announced two new hardware products.  No this is not a joke.  Oracle and HP have teamed up to produce the new Exadata Programmable Storage Center (EPSC) and the new Oracle Database Machine (ODBM).  After 3 years of development and a year of testing with large customers, these new products are available immediately.  [...]

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Last night I had the opportunity to attend the Oracle ACE dinner. Maybe I should clarify that by saying I showed up, grabbed a seat, and managed to avoid getting tossed out. As you might have guessed, I’m not an Oracle ACE but that didn’t stop me from rubbing shoulders with them for several hours. [...]

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These are the types of presentations that seem hot (in descending order):

Service Orient Architecture Integration/Fusion Middleware
E-Business Suite, Release 12
Functional Seminars (focusing on various E-Business Suite modules)
Hyperion
11g Database
Enterprise Performance Management

This may change as the week progresses and Oracle continues to make new announcements.  For full-disclosure there are also sessions for BEA, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards and Siebel [...]

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Oracle has introduced a new collaboration product, BeeHive, at OpenWorld.  It was the topic of the keynote address this morning (Monday).
This is another attempt by Oracle to crack into the collaboration market, which has been difficult for the previous product, called Collaboration Suite, since it was a rip and replace type of product.  Obviously organizations [...]

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After all of the buzz in the last year and a half about Fusion Applications it’s interesting that they have disappeared off of the radar at OpenWorld 2008.  The original schedule had the first versions of Fusion Apps appearing in 2008, focusing on Customer Relationship Management capabilities.
Well, that hasn’t happened and now we are seeing [...]

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As noted in a previous post, the current release of EBS R12 is 12.0.5 and a future 12.0.6 is expected that will include a Financials Family Pack.  Soon after that we should expect Release 12.1.
What will R12.1 include?  In one of the sessions today at OOW 2008, a glimpse was provided.
From Oracle’s perspective R12 is [...]

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If you haven’t noticed, there’s a growing interest in using the former HTML DB product now known as APEX (Applications Exchange).  APEX provides a declarative way to develop web-based applications without requiring significant knowledge about Javascript or HTML.  It does require that users are comfortable with SQL, and, to take advantage of advanced features, some [...]

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This morning’s session with the OAUG Upgrade SIG was accented by the attendance of Stephen Chan, who many of you probably recognize from his well-known blog.
During the session there was a discussion on the future of R12 updates and he noted that there are plans to to release one more Financials Family Pack for Release [...]

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For those who haven’t been to San Francisco, it’s one of those places blessed with ideal weather.  Of course it does get foggy and colder in the winter, but September is a great month to be here.  Nice, cool with some humidity, so you aren’t too dry.  Meanwhile, in the downtown area of San Francisco, [...]

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Staged Environments: Steven Chan has recently published a new article about utilizing pre-patched or “staged” environments (Reducing Patching Downtimes with Staged Applications Systems). Staged Applications patching is near and dear to our hearts, as it’s the easiest way to reduce the downtime window of an upgrade (except for faster hardware…:-)).  The article clearly outlines the [...]

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