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REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.,
14-FEB-2007 05:00 AM
Furthering its commitment to open standards,
Oracle today announced support for the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) XQuery 1.0, a
new standard for accessing XML data. Over the years, Oracle has played a key role in the
development of XQuery, participating in the W3C XML Query Working Group and introducing
Oracle(r) Database 10g Release 2, the first commercial database to support the standard in 2005.
With a long-standing history of supporting XML in many different customer environments and
several Oracle products already using XQuery, customers are assured that their evolving data
management needs will be met, as the move to Web 2.0 continues.
XQuery will play a significant role in enterprise computing as organizations increasingly
merge their XML and relational data sources in the Web 2.0 world. A comprehensive query
language for XML data, XQuery enables the data mining of all structured and unstructured data
sources ranging from emails, photos and Web pages to multi-terabyte relational databases.
Enterprise content management and Service-Oriented Architectures are among the drivers fueling
the growth of XML data and will benefit from the XQuery standard. The virtually seamless
integration of XQuery with Oracle Databases further broadens Oracle's ability to manage all
types of data with a full-featured, high performance database-native XQuery engine.
"Oracle celebrates with the XML community and is delighted with the progression of
XQuery to formal recommendation status," said Don Deutsch, vice president, Standards Strategy
and Architecture, Oracle. "Our leadership of and participation in the XQuery language definition
effort, particularly in the work of our technical representative to the XML Query Working Group,
reflects our corporate philosophy to support open standards forums like W3C. The formalization
of the XQuery standard gives our customers further confidence in our products, Oracle Berkeley
DB and XML DB, which are already using XQuery."
Oracle has a long history of providing technologies to help manage many different types
of non-relational data, including mobile, geo-spatial, multi-media, text and XML. Oracle was the
first vendor with XML capabilities in the database and has been providing XML support for more
than five years, since the introduction of Oracle9i Database. The company has continued to
enhance its XML-support through Oracle Database 10g with XQuery specification support and
XML DB. Additionally, Oracle will continue to actively participate in the W3C XML XQuery
Working Group.
For more information about Oracle XQuery, please visit:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/xml/xquery/index.html
Pricing
Oracle XQuery is included in Oracle Database 10g Release 2 Enterprise Edition and Oracle
Database 10g Release 2 Standard Edition at no additional cost.
About Oracle
Oracle (NasdaqGS: ORCL) is the world's largest enterprise software company. For more
information about Oracle, visit our Web site at http://www.oracle.com.
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