Highlights from Oracle’s Fourth Quarter
It's been a busy quarter for Oracle; the company entered into an agreement to acquire Sun Microsystems and celebrated several exciting new product releases. Read more about these developments, a roundup of Q4s other big hits, and get the details about Oracles' fourth quarter and fiscal year 2009 conference call and live web broadcast at 2:00 p.m. (PDT) / 5:00 p.m. (EDT) on June 23.
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New Visualization Technologies Streamline Lean Business Processes and Boost Collaboration
New combinations of technologies for displaying and managing 2D engineering drawings and 3D models are helping manufacturers streamline their business processes and reduce overhead for repair and service contracts.
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Oracle's David Chappell in SOA World: How to use application grid approach to scale SOA applications
“SOA is becoming more broadly adopted, along with the practice of using XML as a means of communicating data between services and the more rapid adoption of applications to Internet scale. Staring you in the face of your application's success, the potential to overwhelm your systems has become very real, and may happen at times when you least expect it.”
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Oracle OpenWorld Preview
Oracle OpenWorld brings you more than 1,800 sessions, 400 partner exhibits, keynotes from the world’s technology leaders, hands-on labs, several special networking events, and more. In one place, with one purpose: to help you get the most business benefit from your technology, today and in the future.
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Instant Replay: Larry Ellison at JavaOne
"Don't expect a lot of changes," says CEO Ellison. "Just a lot of investment and enthusiasm coming from Oracle."
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Leading With Heart
Andrew O'Keeffe has worked in senior HR positions at companies including IBM and Hewitt Associates. He's seen his share of bosses and heard some horror stories from employees along the way. In his novel, The Boss, he demonstrates just how much influence executives can have—and why leadership matters in a troubled economy.
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Big Ideas: Web 2.0 Mistakes
“Solutions should not be fundamentally disruptive. Disruptive technology thwarts user adoption by changing focus and attention to the technology itself rather than on the purpose the technology is supposed to serve. Keep solutions 'in-the-flow' of daily routines and task execution to better secure adoption. Keep the technology as transparent as possible for the end user to better capture the network effects that are desired.”— Billy Cripe, Director, Enterprise 2.0 & ECM Product Management

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