Oracle Tuxedo Now Available

* Oracle today unveiled Oracle Tuxedo 10g R3, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware.

* Oracle Tuxedo 10g R3 provides mainframe-class scale and performance on open, distributed systems for software written in C, C++, and COBOL, and is the premier platform for "rehosting" mainframe applications on mainstream hardware.

* Oracle Tuxedo 10g R3 is the latest in a series of product releases that combine technology from Oracle Fusion Middleware and BEA Systems. These products illustrate the rapid progress that Oracle is making in combining market-leading technologies from the two companies into a unified product offering.

* Oracle also announced the availability of Oracle Service Architecture Leveraging Tuxedo (SALT) 10g R3 and Oracle Tuxedo System and Application Monitor (TSAM) 10g R3. The new releases are focused on standardization and improving SOA-enablement.

* Oracle SALT is the SOA-enablement product option for Oracle Tuxedo. Oracle SALT provides a standards-based, easy-to-use, configuration driven, bi-directional Web-services gateway and an SCA container to simplify new application development using standards based programming model while leveraging Oracle Tuxedo infrastructure.

* The new features and capabilities of Oracle Tuxedo 10g R3, Oracle SALT 10g R3 and Oracle TSAM 10g R3 are combined with enhanced integration with the following Oracle Fusion Middleware components: Oracle Coherence, Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle Identity and Access Management Suite.

* Oracle Tuxedo 10g R3 is certified with Oracle Clusterware to improve the availability of existing and new applications. Because Oracle Clusterware is a also certified with Oracle Real Application Clusters, integration between Oracle Tuxedo 10g R3 and Oracle Real Application Clusters is significantly enhanced.

Source: www.hardwarezone.com

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SAP wants information about Oracle's deal with partner

SAP wants a federal court to make Oracle hand over records of its business arrangement with CedarCrestone, an Alpharetta, Georgia, systems integrator that provides third-party support for Oracle PeopleSoft applications.

The filing was made on Jan. 16 in U.S. District Court-Northern District of California, in connection with the lawsuit Oracle filed against SAP in March 2007. Oracle charges that SAP's now-shuttered subsidiary TomorrowNow, a provider of third-party support for Oracle's PeopleSoft, JD Edwards and Siebel applications, illegally downloaded material from Oracle's support systems and used it to woo Oracle customers.

SAP has said that TomorrowNow workers were authorized to download materials from Oracle's site on behalf of TomorrowNow customers, but acknowledged some "inappropriate downloads" had occurred. SAP has also said that Oracle's software remained in TomorrowNow's systems and has denied Oracle's allegations of a wider pattern of wrongdoing.

SAP's Jan. 16 filing argues that since "Oracle's partners apparently pay for the right to access Oracle's Software and Support Materials," Oracle's deal with CedarCrestone is "directly relevant" to calculating damages in the suit.

"Moreover, the mere fact that customers have options for support from Oracle partners (rather than obtaining support services directly from Oracle) may prove that customers would have left Oracle to get support elsewhere regardless of the activities of TomorrowNow," the filing adds.

In addition, SAP wants Oracle to provide the terms and conditions by which CedarCrestone can access and use Oracle software and support materials; and "documents sufficient to identify" which Oracle customers CedarCrestone is supporting.

SAP also issued a subpoena to CedarCrestone in November, seeking a range of information on its relationship with Oracle, according to another filing. In a Dec. 8 letter, an attorney for CedarCrestone objected to the subpoena on the grounds it was "overbroad, vague, ambiguous and burdensome," and also requested proprietary and confidential information. The attorney could not immediately be reached for further comment Tuesday.

Oracle and SAP both declined comment Tuesday.

The Jan. 16 filing follows another request by SAP that could bring potentially sensitive information from Oracle into public view. SAP recently asked that Oracle reveal its profit-margin information regarding PeopleSoft and JD Edwards software and support, also saying such information would be relevant to calculating damages.

A settlement conference in the case has been scheduled for Feb. 23, and a trial date is set for February 2010.

Author: Chris Kanaracus @ IDG News Service

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Oracle enters into partnership with Datawatch

Oracle has formed a records-management partnership with enterprise information management firm Datawatch.

It said it has combined its Universal Records Management Adapter with Datawatch's BDS Enterprise Content Management product suite to create a single environment to control records and retention policies for all content stored in the Datawatch BDS archive.

It also provides records managers with a single view into retention schedules, disposition actions and audit histories, facilitates the process of discovering and declaring records, and helps ensure that the enterprise conforms to both regulatory mandates and internal corporate policies.

Oracle said the integration will provide a complete document lifecycle product that will enable users to reduce the cost of storing and managing unstructured content. Oracle said users can also access, manage, and produce data in a legally defensible manner when responding to litigation, antitrust inquiries, regulatory compliance, or investigation.

Harvey Gross, vice president of enterprise product development at Datawatch, said: "Our technology relationship with Oracle enhances the Datawatch BDS Enterprise Content Management product suite and enables a significant cost reduction to our customers for their critical business functions, helps ensure legal and regulatory compliance, and fulfills the need for technology to provide authenticity, access and longevity."

Source: http://contentmanagement.cbronline.com

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