Oracle

An article by Paul Krill in InfoWorld caught my eye. It covers a web conference given by Oracle the otther day in which company representatives made lots of references to enterprise collaboration under the term Enterprise 2.0 (following on from the current trend of overusing the phrase "Web 2.0").

The word “oracle” has a number of definitions, and they generally relate to knowledge provided by one or more deities - this would, in theory, be some solid intel.  But the Oracle company has recently turned to Google in order to get people on the correct path.

Matt Aslett writes that Oracle may be considering Unbreakable Support for MySQL and that MySQL Co. is likely to IPO later this year.

Oracle the Database Company is taking time out on its corporate blog to address a number of critics on the security of Oracle Databases.

There is a symbiotic relationship between Oracle & Red Hat now. Yes there was one before with Oracle's database business on Linux, but it's even more intertwined now.

Fear not System Administrators: There are exciting new system administration features in the pipeline for managing e-Business Suite environments.

One of the sure signs that there is money to made in a technology sector is when the big sharks start gathering around spots where the little fish have been happily churning up some waves.

I've made it to San Francisco, and can report the conference is in full swing.