(Ben Heskett) Oracle Chief Executive Larry Ellison has a simple message for the thousands of users of the company’s business software: Upgrade. Oracle has touted the benefits of its latest set of Internet-ready business programs, called 11i, for some time. But many customers remain on the sidelin

Network Appliance, a provider of enterprise storage solutions, announced SnapDrive for Oracle, a data management product for managing Oracle8i deployments in Windows system-based environments.According to the company, SnapDrive provides support for high availability Oracle configurations suc

Oracle may be learning an important lesson in the business-software market: make the customer happy.<br><br>At its annual AppsWorld customer conference, the software maker tried to convince customers that it could learn from past mistakes and cater to their needs with its business-applications softw

From Data Access – combit GmbH (www.combit.net) has announced the release of extensive Visual DataFlex support for their report generator List & Label software. According to combit, the tool seamlessly integrates with VDF and provides developers with a database independent report generator that equi

By MARC L. SONGINI – Looking to overcome customer relationship and quality image problems, Oracle Corp. is working to appear more conciliatory toward its installed base.At the AppsWorld user conference, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison acknowledged that the software maker’s E-Business Suite 11i is c

By Juan Carlos Perez – The alliance’s first offering includes Accenture services and Tibco software and targets users wanting to integrate Oracle’s Oracle 11i enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications with non-Oracle ERP applications, including those from SAP AG, PeopleSoft and Siebel Systems.

World No. 2 software maker, Oracle, hit by falling applications sales, is showing a newer, softer side to participants at a user conference in San Diego.The Silicon Valley database giant, one of the most aggressive players in the rough-and-tumble sector, invited a customer lobby group to its

By Liz Cully with Tom Haunert – Is Oracle9i Database more powerful than Oracle8i? Absolutely. It’s also easier to use. “We got a massive amount of input from DBAs on the most tedious, time-consuming tasks they have to do,” says Valerie Kane, a group manager in Oracle’s Server Division, “and we used

Paul Krill – WHEN ORACLE SHIPS the upcoming upgrade to its database, designated Oracle9i Release 2, in May, it will mark the end of the Oracle Express OLAP (online analytical processing) product line and the dawn of an offering more tightly integrated with the main database.

Above Software has made available a free beta release of their new Statement Tracer for Oracle software. Statement Tracer can be downloaded and used for free through the end of April (an official release is expected in early May).Statement Tracer for Oracle is an effective and easy-to-use so