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.

Microsoft has stated it will not ship Windows Server 2008 until February. This is a delay from the previous scheduled release of late 2007.

Four security vulnerabilities exist in the BrightStor ARCserve Backup Tape Engine and Portmapper products that would allow a remote attacker to bring down the services. Effected products are:

BrightStor ARCserve Backup r11.5
BrightStor ARCserve Backup r11.1
BrightStor ARCserve Backup r11 for Windows
BrightStor Enterprise Backup r10.5
BrightStor ARCserve Backup v9.01
CA Server Protection Suite r2
CA Business Protection Suite r2
CA Business Protection Suite for Microsoft Small Business Server Standard Edition r2
CA Business Protection Suite for Microsoft Small Business Server Premium Edition r2

Patches may be downloaded following the link to CAs SupportConnect website.

Redhat released the latest of their flagship product Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 on May 15th. This version ships with many enhancements including Xen server virtualization software.

http://www.redhat.com/rhel/server/advanced/

Microsoft released Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2003. Read Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 Installation and Deployment Guide for additional details on Enterprise rollout or Installing and Deploying Updates for Windows Server 2003 for single systems.

“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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