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Oracle moves beyond the bundle for SOA

Oracle's latest version of its SOA Suite offers substantial upgrades to the January 2006 release. The key enhancement, available now to developers in a preview, is integration of all components into a "cohesive" platform.

SCA and SDO: Standardizing SOA-based apps

Two specifications are helping developers navigate the stormy waters of SOA implementation; Service Component Architecture (SCA) and Service Data Objects (SDO) are two ways vendors hope to simplify the process.

Oracle overhauls ETL, Warehouse Builder released

Oracle Corp. today released the long-awaited overhaul of its database design and ETL (extraction, transformation and load) tool, Warehouse Builder 10g, Release 2 (formerly code-named "Paris").

Oracle touts several wins over SAP

Oracle says it’s growing faster than SAP. It points to more than 500 companies that have invested in Oracle over SAP in the last 9 months, as well as documented SEC filings on market share.

Oracle spends a busy fortnight making deals

It has been a busy 2 weeks for Oracle, which completed its acquisition of Siebel, announced Release 3 of its Application Server 10g and JDeveloper 10g tools, announced two new acquisitions and disclosed plans to divest itself of Siebel's OnTarget business unit, a sales training and methodology consultancy.

MSDN Redux With 64-Bit Servers and ASP.NET 2.0

Microsoft's Larry Jordan describes how his team reinvigorated MSDN with 64-bit servers, VS 2005, and Web services.

Oracle jumpstarts SOAs for ISVs

Complementing today's introduction of the Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle launched a series of hands-on workshops designed to provide independent software vendors with tools and skills to help their customers build, deploy and leverage SOAs.

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Oracle user group assimilates PeopleSoft user groups

The Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG) said on Monday it has incorporated four user groups formerly associated with PeopleSoft into OAUG as special interest groups.

What's New With VS and Data

Roger Jennings discusses the new data features that made it into Visual Studio and SQL Server 2005, and a couple features that were dropped late in the process.

The Leap from Illusion to Fusion

Following its acquisitions of PeopleSoft and Siebel, Oracle is touting a strategy it calls Project Fusion that it says will bring its products together. Meanwhile, detractors point out fusion can also blow things apart.