Oracle R12 VMWARE Image - Pre-Installed Vision Demo Environment

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This package contains:

- Samsung S2 Portable External HDD 2.5'' 500GB or 1000GB, USB 3.0
- VMWare image with pre-installed Oracle Linux Server 6.2 (32-Bit)
- Pre-installed Oracle E-Business Suite R12.1.1 Vision Demo environment (350 GB)
- Detailed Installation and Support Documentation
- VMware-Player-4.0.2-591240
- VirtualBox-4.1.8-75467-Win
 

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Oracle rating cut, Jefferies cites challenges

Analyst cites threat from SAP and software-as-a-service trend. Shares of Oracle Corp. fell Monday after a Jefferies&Co. analyst downgraded the business software company, pointing to the quickening shift to the so-called software-as-a-service trend as a looming competitive threat.

The stock moved back below the $30 mark after analyst Ross MacMillan cut his rating to hold from buy on Oracle ORCL +0.07% , which he said faces “increased challenges to growth.” Oracle lost 1.4% to close at $29.71.

MacMillan cited several areas of concern, including threats to Oracle’s core database business such as the one posed by rival SAP AG SAP +0.35% . The German company, he argued, “is starting to offer customers an alternative to the relational database for part of their footprint.” “It’s a first step and SAP has big ambitions for the technology which, if successful, creates tail risk for Oracle,” MacMillan added.

MacMillan also highlighted the ongoing shift to the emerging software-as-a-service model, in which companies access and pay for business applications as a Web-based service. This has allowed businesses to gain access to applications for such tasks as managing inventory and keeping track of payroll through the Web.

Customers typically pay a fee based on the number of users, allowing companies to save costs of running their own in-house networks. On the other hand, traditional software companies such as Oracle make money by licensing their products to businesses.

MacMillan said the momentum of such software-as-a-service companies as Salesforce.com CRM -0.18% and privately held Workday “creates risk for some of Oracle’s large application assets as well as database revenues.” Redwood City, Calif.-based Oracle will report results for the third quarter of fiscal 2012 March 20.

Source: Benjamin Pimentel, MarketWatch

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Oracle Database Book and eBook Published: Boost Performance with the Oracle Database 11gR2 Performance Tuning Cookbook

Packt Publishing, one of the world’s leading Publishers of Oracle Training material, is pleased to announce the publication of Oracle Database 11gR2 Performance Tuning Cookbook, a new book and ebook aimed at newcomers to the Oracle Database seeking to solve performance problems faster and in a rigorous way. 

Birmingham: Packt Publishing, one of the world’s leading Publishers of Oracle Training material, is pleased to announce the publication of Oracle Database 11gR2 Performance Tuning Cookbook, a new book and ebook aimed at newcomers to the Oracle Database seeking to solve performance problems faster and in a rigorous way.

Written in a cookbook style by Cirol Fiorillo, Oracle Database 11gR2 Performance Tuning Cookbook is filled with real recipes offering solutions starting from application design and development, through the implementation of well-performing applications, to the details of deployment and delivering best-performance databases. Readers will learn to implement fast and scalable SQL and PL/SQL code, and choose the correct structures to store the data and access them.
Each recipe in the book is based on a script/procedure explained step-by-step, and is aimed at software developers, software and data architects, and DBAs who work with the Oracle Database.
Packt Publishing has developed and published many books on the Oracle Database, and some of the recent titles include:

•     Oracle Information Integration, Migration, and Consolidation
•     OCA Oracle Database 11g: SQL Fundamentals I: A Real World Certification Guide (1ZO-051)
•     Oracle 10g/11g Data and Database Management Utilities
•     Oracle Database 11g – Underground Advice for Database Administrators
•     Mastering Oracle Scheduler in Oracle 11g Databases
•     And many more. All Packt’s Oracle books can be found on the Oracle books page.

 Source: http://www.prweb.com

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Ellison’s son is an Oracle of movie hits

When “Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol” topped the box office last weekend, it was a surprising outcome to many.

But for the 28-year-old son of Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, the film’s success was a vindication of his early support for the project that led him to finance half of its $145 million budget.

The latest “Mission: Impossible” film is just one of several movies being co-financed by Paramount and Skydance, the production and financing company started by Larry Ellison’s son, David.

Skydance gives Paramount a way to share the risk on big-budget films or movies with uncertain commercial prospects.

When Skydance finalized its deal with Paramount in 2010, the studio had been without a long-term financing partner since 2008. In the interim, the studio had been relying on various companies like Spyglass.

But Paramount still had a strong track record at the box office, which, along with the fact that the studio seemed to be looking for a strategic partner, appealed to David Ellison.

A source close to the deal says the studio reached an agreement with Ellison in part because execs discovered they and the Oracle scion had very similar tastes.

But another source familiar with the situation indicated that the fact that David was Larry Ellison’s son made Paramount feel like he was a reliable investor.

Indeed, Larry Ellison supplied an undisclosed amount of the $150 million in equity Skydance raised. Skydance also put together $200 million in a revolving -credit facility led by JPMorgan.

Paramount offers films it wants Skydance to co-finance to Ellison’s company early in their development. The percentage of the budget Skydance finances depends on the film.

The partnership has provided Paramount with a way to hedge their bets on risky movies like the Coen brothers’ Western, “True Grit”; Skydance financed 50 percent of its $38 million budget.

More recently, Skydance stepped in to help finance Paramount’s reportedly pricey zombie film, “World War Z.” The deal also gives Paramount an option to distribute movies that Skydance develops.

Source: HILARY LEWIS @ http://www.nypost.com/

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