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Oracle today announced that Solutia Inc., a global specialty chemicals company, has deployed clustered Oracle(r) Databases on Microsoft Windows to support its North American manufacturing sites.

Oracle, Microsoft, Infosys, Wipro Finalists at Great Indian Developer Awards; Voting Open Now 

Enterprise resource planning software, or ERP, doesn’t live up to its acronym. Forget about planning—it doesn’t do much of that—and forget about resource, a throwaway term. But remember the enterprise part. This is ERP’s true ambition.

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All across India, software is transforming the way we do business. But you know the secret driving these successes. They’re not just applications, they’re genuine masterpieces. They’re the product of creativity, hard work, and analytical rigor from developers like you.

The upcoming Oracle Develop Conference looks at integrating various programming languages with Oracle, notably .Net, Java and PHP.

Various sessions at the event include

1. Getting started with Oracle and .NET

This entry-level session introduces Oracle's offerings for .NET programmers, including Oracle Data Provider for .NET, Oracle's high-performance ADO.NET 2.0 data provider. Also, learn about Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio .NET, and .NET Stored Procedures. Step-by-step demos illustrate how you can get started on using each of these free products.

Answer a few simple technical and general questions on Oracle, and get a chance to win Free Passes to the Oracle Conference for Developers, 2 full days of Quality Information and Education.

Learn about 11g, Enterprise Java, Service Oriented Architecture, .NET Development, Open Source & Oracle, Scalable Applications in PHP, Developing Web Service and much more in this 2 conference. Detailed agenda, #check out http://www.oracle.com/technology/events/develop2007/agenda.html

It would be the first time in the world that major IT firms like Oracle, IBM and NEC join hands to market equipment running the free software, the Nikkei newspaper said.
Major information technology firms, including Oracle Corp., IBM Corp. and NEC Corp., will set up a consortium to sell servers and systems running the Linux operating system in Japan, a financial daily said on Thursday.
It would be the first time in the world that major IT firms join hands to market equipment running the free software, the Nikkei newspaper said.

The much awaited Oracle Develop - the premier conference for developers is coming to Bangalore on May 17-18, 2007. This is a must attend event for all developers to learn about the latest in technology and to network with others.


Attend for Hands-on labs sessions, real case studies and product roadmap and strategy information.

As expected, Oracle Corp. today released 51 new security fixes for flaws across its database and application server products as well as its collaboration software and e-business suites.

Of these, 26 fixes addressed flaws in the company's database products, including 10 that the company said could be remotely exploited without the need for a username or a password. Oracle typically assigns its highest severity ratings to such flaws.

Oracle E-Business Suite 11i Applications certification strengthens credentials of Oracle Professionals to helps them provide better service for Oracle customers

Oracle University has announced the availability of Oracle E-Business Suite 11i Applications certification program.

For years, Oracle Database professionals have used Oracle Certified Professional certification to advance their careers, increase their employment value, and gain prestige. Now IT professionals can take advantage of the same opportunity with the new Oracle E-Business Suite 11i Applications certification program.

The (universal) problem:
It is always amazing to see the enterprises of today, jumping into an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system without really analyzing their own understanding about an ERP or even worse what their business needs are. Most of the times SMEs tend to be over-confident and expect that their ERP should do everything for them.

The reality:

Oracle today unveiled its strategy to help Indian organizations transform into ‘customer-centric’ organizations, and achieve increased competitiveness, profitability and shareholder value through improved customer satisfaction, customer loyalty, as well as by attracting new customers.

Oracle’s four-pronged strategy will help extend its CRM leadership in the Asia Pacific region and India. The company also detailed its CRM offering for small and medium sized organizations in the country.

This is not another debate, please. I am keen to learn from experts as to why there is not as much activity in this space?

We are trying to learn and apply some techniques to encourage Open Source Development (and not just evangelising OSS and using it) in India and other developing countries.

Please post your suggestions at http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1523398&forum_id=568033

IN A major victory for the Open Document Format (ODF) Alliance spearheaded by Sun Microsystems, IBM, Novell, Red Hat and Oracle in India, and a setback to Microsoft, several government departments in Delhi have decided to switch over to the freely available, ODF-based free source suites from proprietary office suites (mostly MS Office).

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