The long awaited, overhauled, improved, and redesigned flagship product from Oracle has released today. Oracle 11g boast a long list of over 500 new features including self-tuning capabilities, automated storage and memory management and intelligent tuning advisors. Additional features like Database and SQL Replay capabilities will make troubleshooting a lot easier with this release.

“REDWOOD CITY, Calif., March 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — . ARC Advisory Group, a leading independent research firm in manufacturing and supply chain management, has named Oracle the leading supplier in the worldwide master data management (MDM) market. In ARC Advisory Group’s recently published report entitled, “Master Data Management Worldwide Outlook Market Analysis and Forecast Through 2011,” Oracle is the clear MDM industry leader with 39.8 percent market share of total MDM software and services, and year-over-year growth of close to 50 percent.(1) IBM placed at a distant second compared to Oracle with 8.8 percent market share.(2)”

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“Oracle today announced the general availability of Oracle(r) Enterprise Manager 10g Release 3, the latest release of Oracle’s enterprise management solution. Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Release 3 includes increased management capabilities for packaged applications and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) applications, Oracle Fusion Middleware as well as significantly improved lifecycle management capabilities.
Oracle today also announced the general availability of Oracle Application Management Packs for the Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle’s Siebel CRM — making Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Release 3 the industry’s most complete application management solution. Oracle introduced the Oracle Management Pack for PeopleSoft Enterprise in October 2006. With these new capabilities customers can manage their applications and underlying infrastructure to help improve application availability and business transaction performance with a single, integrated management solution.”

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Today EMC introduced the “EMC CLARiiON CX3-10 UltraScale” networked storage system, a new entry point into its market-leading series of full 4Gb/s storage arrays; The new EMC RecoverPoint/SE software, an entry point for network-based asynchronous replication in mid-tier storage environments; and three solutions to help midsize businesses consolidate, back up, archive and protect their Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Microsoft Exchange 2003 and Oracle RAC 10g environments.

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Furthering its commitment to open standards, Oracle today announced support for the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) XQuery 1.0, a new standard for accessing XML data. Over the years, Oracle has played a key role in the development of XQuery, participating in the W3C XML Query Working Group and introducing Oracle(r) Database 10g Release 2, the first commercial database to support the standard in 2005.

Oracle announced the general availability of Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Release 7, which features enhanced integration and caching with Oracle Database 10*g* to meet the instant response times and high-throughput requirements of real-time enterprises.

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