By Wylie Wong – Looking to jump-start sales in the face of stiff competition and a sagging economy, Oracle is set to disclose plans for new software and a revamped version of its flagship database-management application at a customer conference in San Francisco next week.

By Rick Stehno – Checking Oracle for availability requires more than just a ping or a ‘ps -ef | grep oracle’ command. I believe it requires a test accessing Oracle using SQL*Net to verify that the listener is also up and running — this would be the access that a user would normally use. By actually

(Marc L. Songini) Oracle Corp. this week plans to announce enhancements to its treasury management applications that are designed to give end users faster access to financial data plus beefed-up regulatory compliance tools.