(Martin Veitch) Oracle will unwrap the latest version of its database software at the OracleWorld conference in September. However, many organisations still grappling with 9i are likely to give the new upgrade a wide berth at first.

By Tom Steinert-Threlkeld – With or without the acquisition of PeopleSoft, Oracle is “not a competitor which really could hurt” SAP AG, said the chief executive of SAP, the largest supplier of software that helps large enterprises manage their operations.

By Lisa Vaas – In a nod to the importance that grid computing will play in the next iteration of its flagship database, Oracle Corp. is calling the update Oracle10G.

By Dennis Callaghan – Oracle Corp. is preparing advanced capabilities for its Oracle Collaboration Suite that could give enterprises a compelling alternative to rival messaging and collaboration platforms from IBM and Microsoft Corp.

By James F. Koopmann – If you want to store date and time information in Oracle, you really only have two different options for the column’s datatype. Lets take a quick look at these two datatypes and what they offer.

By Lisa Vaas – If Oracle Corp.’s Town Hall meeting on Thursday managed to lull the fears of any PeopleSoft Inc. customers, those customers kept mum about their newfound ease. The uncomforted, however, did not.

By Alorie Gilbert – Orbitz was hit by a site outage Wednesday, making the popular travel site unavailable to visitors at the height of the busy summer travel season. The outage, which began early Wednesday, is related to problems with an Oracle database on which Orbitz runs its site, Orbitz s

By Ellen O’Brien – The Oak Table Network (OTN) was begun in Copenhagen, Denmark, two years ago, in Norgaard’s living room. A late-night informal gathering grew into a professional networking organization whose members are authors, consultants, database architects and developers who investigate topic

By Paula Rooney – Oracle Collaboration Suite Release 2 officially hit the streets without instant messaging, but that realtime feature will be delivered in yet another upgrade during the first half of 2004, Oracle executives said.

By Lisa Vaas – Oracle Corp. will be hosting a town hall meeting in its ongoing efforts to woo PeopleSoft Inc. customers, Oracle executives confirmed on Tuesday.