Oracle Changes Sun Subscription Preferences to Oracle in March
Subscription(s) to Sun Newsletters have been mapped to Oracle equivalent publications which you will begin to receive in the coming weeks.
We hope that you will decide to continue receiving the Oracle newsletters, however if you wish to make changes to your Sun subscriptions, we encourage you to please login to your Sun account and modify your preferences on that system before March 31, 2010. You can opt-out of all Sun communications via the Sun Do Not Email form at any time if you wish to stop receiving Sun communications.
After March 31st we will begin the process of consolidating your subscription preferences under an Oracle Profile account and will notify you when this has been completed. Please note that if you create or have an existing Oracle Profile account, your Sun subscriptions will not be reflected on that account until our consolidation efforts have been completed.
In addition to managing your e-mail preferences, your Oracle Profile account provides you with access to Oracle events, downloads and product information – as well as access to Oracle’s various sites and services. Learn more about the Oracle newsletters and create an Oracle Profile account.
Oracle Buys AmberPoint To Boost Application Management And Performance Offerings
On the heels of the EU’s approval of Oracle’s $7.4 billion deal to acquire Sun Microsystems, the tech giant has opened up the purse strings to acquire application management software provider AmberPoint. Terms of the deal were not disclosed and the acquisition is expected to close in the first half of this year.
AmberPoint’s software helps organizations diagnose and resolve issues in application performance and business transactions, such as insurance claims processing or account provisioning where multiple applications need to work together. AmberPoint’s software will be folded into Oracle’s Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) offerings.
Oracle says that the addition of AmberPoint’s software will help diagnose and manage the performance of business applications, provide monitoring for application performance and will enrich SOA design time with run-time metrics for SOA governance.
Kenai.com an Explaination from Oracle Corporation
Gentlepeople,
In an effort to get information out to the Kenai community quickly, while trying to manage the integration of our two companies, I think we did a poor job at communicating our plans for Kenai.com to you. I would like to remedy that now. Our strategy is simple. We don’t believe it makes sense to continue investing in multiple hosted development sites that are basically doing the same thing. Our plan is to shut down kenai.com and focus our efforts on java.net as the hosted development community. We are in the process of migrating java.net to the kenai technology. This means that any project currently hosted on kenai.com will be able to continue as you are on java.net. We are still working out the technical details, but the goal is to make this migration as seamless as possible for the current kenai.com projects. So in the meantime I suggest that you stay put on kenai.com and let us work through the details and get back to you later this month.
Thanks for your feedback and patience.
Ted Farrell
Oracle Corporation
The Closure of Project Kenai
It’s with a sad heart that we have to announce that the Kenai.com domain will be shutdown as part of the consolidation of project hosting sites now that Sun is a wholly owned subsidiary of Oracle.
Project Kenai has always existed as two different things: Kenai the infrastructure, and Kenai the website (Kenai.com). While it has come time to close the domain of Kenai.com, the infrastructure (which is already used under NetBeans.org) will live on to support other domains in the future.
With this decision from Oracle to close the Kenai.com domain, it is now time for project owners to begin the process of migrating their repositories and content over to other locations. A few things to note as you begin this process:
* More then one forum thread is going on at this time discussing alternative sites for hosting projects; this one appears to be the most active:
http://kenai.com/projects/help/forums/general/topics/2406-Alternatives-for-Kenai-com-
* For Source repositories, SVNSync can be used for Subversion. Git, and Hg are pretty simple by nature to move.
* Wiki source code is available to all project admins and can be cut and paste into any other site that supports the Mediawiki syntax.
* For Issue Trackers and Forum content, we are looking at ways to make that content available, but we have nothing at this time in place. If you can come up with a way to move the content on your own, proceed as such. Please do not wait for us.
The website will be closed to the creation of new projects in the next week. The complete shutdown of the site and the removal of the domain will be completed in the next 60 days (April 2nd 2010). This should provide ample time for all projects to be moved to a new home of the project owners choice.
If you have a private project (only available to Sun internal projects) those projects will continue to exist. We will send information about how to access those in a separate notice.
Any public projects that remain after the 60 day limit (April 2nd 2010) will be removed when the site is turned off.
It has been an amazing ride, and a great pleasure to personally work with so many of you over the last year or so. From the entire Project Kenai Team I want to thank you for all of the feedback, criticisms, and support over our time together.
With much respect,
The Project Kenai Team
Oracle Finalizes Acquisition of Sun MicroSystems Jan 2010
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Oracle Corporation -
We are pleased to announce that Oracle has completed its acquisition of Sun Microsystems and Sun is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Oracle. With this news, we want to reiterate our commitment to deliver complete, open and integrated systems that help our customers improve the performance, reliability and security of their IT infrastructure. We would also like to thank the many customers that have supported us throughout the acquisition process.
There is no doubt that this combination transforms the IT industry. With the addition of servers, storage, SPARC processors, the Solaris operating system, Java, and the MySQL database to Oracle’s portfolio of database, middleware, and business and industry applications, we plan to engineer and deliver open and integrated systems – from applications to disk – where all the pieces fit and work together out of the box.
Performance levels will be unmatched. Oracle’s software already runs faster on Sun SPARC/Solaris than on any other server or operating system. With Sun as a part of Oracle, each layer of the stack will be engineered to further improve performance, reliability and manageability so that IT will be more predictable, more supportable, and more secure. Customers will benefit as their system performance goes up and their system integration and management costs go down.
In addition, our open standards-based technology will give customers choice. Customers can purchase our fully integrated systems, or easily integrate our best-of-breed technologies with their existing environments. Our open technology also enables customers to take full advantage of third party innovations. Oracle also plans to extend its partner specialization program to include Sun technologies to better enable partners to deliver differentiated and value-added solutions to customers.
As always, our primary goal is 100% customer satisfaction. We are dedicated to delivering without interruption the quality of support and service that you have come to expect from Oracle and Sun, and more. Oracle plans to enhance Sun customer support by improving support access, offering better interoperability support between Oracle and Sun products and delivering services in more local languages. Support procedures for your existing Sun and Oracle products are unchanged, so for now you should continue to use the same channels you’ve been using. Customers can continue to purchase products from Sun in the same way they did prior to the acquisition. We will communicate any changes to this through regular channels.
We are very excited about this combination and look forward to delivering to you increased innovation through accelerated investment in Sun’s hardware and software technologies such as SPARC, Solaris, Java, and MySQL. If you weren’t able to join the live event on January 27 where we, along with Larry Ellison and other executives from Oracle and Sun outlined how this powerful combination will transform the IT industry, you are welcome to view the replay that can be accessed at oracle.com/sun.
Sincerely,
| Charles Phillips President |
Safra Catz President |
Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.1.0) for Solaris Operating System (x86-64)
| Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.1.0) for Solaris Operating System (x86-64) | ||
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solaris.x64_11gR2_database_1of2.zip (1,342,890,396 bytes) (cksum – 974026425) | |
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solaris.x64_11gR2_database_2of2.zip (1,005,450,726 bytes) (cksum – 351090271) | |
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| 1. All files are in the .zip format. There is an unzip utility here if you need one. | ||
| 2. Download and unzip both files to the same directory. | ||
| 3. Installation guides and general Oracle Database 11g documentation are here. | ||
| 4. Review the certification matrix for this product here. | ||
Oracle Instant Client for Linux x86-64 (11.2.0.0.2)
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Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler Patch 1 (2.0.0.584)
Tom Kyte’s thoughts on Oracle Database 11g Release 2
Tom Kyte, well known Oracle expert and Host of ‘AskTom.Oracle.Com’ shares his thoughts on Oracle Database 11g Release 2.
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