• Oracle today announced that Baillie Gifford & Co. is taking advantage of Oracle's newest .NET development tools for Oracle(r) Database.
• Headquartered in Edinburgh, Scotland, Baillie Gifford & Co. is a leading independent investment management firm offering its clients a full range of services.
• The firm relies on an IT infrastructure comprising Visual Studio applications running on Oracle Database 10g and Windows x64. To achieve improved application integration and performance, the firm has deployed Oracle Data Provider for .NET and Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio.
• The latest releases of Oracle Data Provider for .NET, Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio and Oracle Providers for ASP.NET support Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 and deliver new features that greatly simplify Microsoft .NET application development using Oracle Database.
• Additionally these releases feature new integration with Visual Studio 2008, enhanced ASP.NET web development features, and User Defined Types (UDT) support, as well as improvements in automatic code generation, performance, ease of deployment, high availability and security.
• Customers and partners rely on the products to enable their .NET applications to tap into the unique performance, scalability, availability, and management capabilities of Oracle Database.

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• "The new features of Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio, such as tight integration with the Visual Studio environment, and Oracle Data Provider for .NET's connection pooling management, are very impressive," said Dr. Eric McDonald, Software Architect, Baillie Gifford. "We have been using Oracle Data Provider for .NET successfully as part of our move to .NET development tools for the past two years. The Oracle Data Provider for .NET is a key element in our strategy to integrate the strengths of Oracle Database with the productivity of the .NET environment."

Supporting Resources

• Related Resources
  Oracle Technology Network's .NET Developer Center: http://otn.oracle.com/dotnet
• Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio: http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/dotnet/tools/index.html
• Oracle Data Provider for .NET: http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/windows/odpnet/index.html
• Oracle Providers for ASP.NET: http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/dotnet/aspnet/index.html
• To download free, evaluation versions of Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio, Oracle Data Provider for .NET, and Oracle Providers for ASP.NET, go to: http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/tech/windows/odpnet/index.html
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