Updated: 2012-09-29 15:00:00
The newly released Oracle Optimized Solution for Oracle E-Business Suite, optimized for the Oracle E-Business Suite is ideal for customers looking to modernize their mission-critical Oracle E-Business Suite environments, lower operating expenses and maximize user productivity. The Oracle Optimized Solution for Oracle E-Business Suite can deliver significant cost savings versus both new and existing hardware infrastructure. For example, it has an up to 56 percent lower acquisition cost versus new IBM POWER7 and HP Superdome2-based configurations, and it offers up to 40 percent lower five-year TCO when consolidating existing IBM and HP infrastructure, while reducing rackspace footprint up to 73 percent.
Updated: 2012-09-20 15:00:00
Oracle reports that Q1 GAAP EPS rose 15% to 41 cents, while Q1 non-GAAP EPS climbed 11% to 53 cents. At the same time Oracle's trailing 12-month operating cash flow increased 9% to $14.0 billion . President Mark Hurd projected growth in two sectors: 'Exadata, Exalogic, Exalytics and our other engineered systems grew more than 100% in the quarter. For the full year, we expect to double engineered systems sales to well over $1 billion. Oracle's new cloud business is also approaching a $1 billion annual run rate. These two businesses will drive Oracle's growth for years to come.'
Updated: 2012-09-20 15:00:00
The August 2012 issue of Profit is now available online. Contents include:
The Middleware Advantage
Playing to Win
Adjustable Loans
Future Proof
Spring Training
Keeping Online Customers Happy
Profit's editor says, "Technologies continuously evolve'some become standard practice, some are revived or reinvented, and some are left by the wayside. But the drive to innovate and the desire to succeed are business principles that never go out of fashion."
Updated: 2012-09-14 15:00:00
Daily News Current Issue Archives by Activity by Section by Date Blogs Keywords Condensed List List Cloud Mediakit Advertise Free Trial System News Volume 175 Issue 2 Virtualization Sign in Register Password Help Membership types Amping Up Oracle VM VirtualBox 4.2 Illumos Features ZFS MySQL Linux SPARC Top10 Virtualization Java Technology NetBeans Oracle Trademarks Previous Next Major Release Has Lots of New Features and New Platform . Support September 14, 2012, Volume 175, Issue 2 Certain of the new features and improvements in the just-released Oracle VM VirtualBox 4.2 are highlighted in a post by Fat Bloke , who accounts for these changes by explaining that increases in host platform capabilities have called for comparable improvements in VirtualBox Manager that have resulted in a more
Updated: 2012-09-13 15:00:00
The Fat Bloke reports the release of Oracle VM VirtualBox 4.1.22, which is essentially a bug fix that is available at both the community or Oracle download sites.
Updated: 2012-09-13 15:00:00
Stefan Hinker announces a revised version of his earlier paper, "Secure Deployment of Oracle VM Server for SPARC." The revision, he writes, was prompted by the novel hardware partitioning capabilities of the Oracle SPARC T4-4, which assigns full PCIe root complexes to domains, mimicking dynamic system domains. Hinker makes clear his intention, which was to address only those configuration options directly related to that platform and to virtualization. Hinker's Oracle technical white paper is downloadable as a pdf at the link above.
