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After a record-setting week of Microsoft and Adobe security patches, Oracle is gearing up for a major update of its own next week.
Next Tuesday, the database vendor will release its quarterly Critical Patch Update, which “contains 38 security vulnerability fixes across hundreds of Oracle products,” according to an advance notification posted to Oracle’s Web site.
As usual, Oracle’s most-patched product next week will be its flagship database, which will get 16 bug fixes. Six of these flaws may be exploitable over a network without any type of authentication, Oracle said.
Also in the mix are eight fixes for the company’s E-Business Suite, three for Oracle Application Server and one for the Industry Applications Products Suite.
Patches are also planned for Oracle’s BEA, PeopleSoft and JD Edwards software.
The security updates will come a week later than originally planned, as Oracle decided to give administrators attending its annual user conference in San Francisco this week a break and not force them to update their systems while attending the show.
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Oracle’s Fusion suite of business applications will go on sale in 2010, chief executive Larry Ellison confirmed in his final keynote at Oracle OpenWorld 2009 today.
The Fusion suite will tie together the most important product portfolios Oracle has acquired in recent years, and make them available via the cloud or on premise.
The products will be given updates, and new applications are on the way, Ellison explained at the customer and partner event.
“The Fusion applications will contain replacement applications, and then brand new applications that you might want to add to products such as the Oracle E-Business Suite or PeopleSoft, ” he said.
Ellison added that Fusion will co-exist with Oracle’s current applications, so customers would not feel pressured to upgrade.
“We will make it easy for Fusion applications to be easily integrated with applications such as E-Business suite, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft and Siebel, and continue to make large investments in our existing applications,” he said.
“We know that not all customers will replace their current applications with Fusion, and that most are likely to augment.
“We’re a pretty big software company, so we can afford to build the next generation of applications as well as maintain the old ones. So, as a customer, you can move if you want to, when you want to.”
Ellison explained that the first version of Fusion will not contain the same functionality as software such as E-Business suite, but that more will be added over time.
Applications ready for 2010 include: financial management, human capital management, sales and marketing, supply chain management, project portfolio management and procurement. A business intelligence (BI) add-on will also be available, although Ellison said that BI is to be at the heart of all Fusion applications.
“The user interface is BI driven. In fact you can’t use the interface without BI,” he said.
Ellison also said that, when providing Fusion applications via the cloud, the company will monitor the service levels it commits to with customers.
“We have built this monitoring into enterprise support to prove that we will deliver the service levels we have committed to,” he concluded.
Oracle and Sun Are Faster than IBM: Proof Now Available
Oracle and Sun SPARC SOLARIS World Record TPC-C Performance Beats IBM’s Best Results on DB2 with Power 595 Server
Oracle and Sun Publish First World Record TPC-C Benchmark using Flash Technology
News Facts
- Today, Oracle announced a new world record TPC-C benchmark result for Oracle® Database 11g running on Sun SPARC® servers with CMT technology and the Sun Solaris Operating System (1). This result proves that the Oracle-Sun combination runs faster than IBM DB2 running on IBM’s flagship Power 595(2).
- The Oracle-Sun benchmark used an innovative combination of Sun’s fast CMT servers to power the database, along with Sun’s new flash technology to speed I/O.
- Oracle Real Application Clusters allowed Sun and Oracle to scale performance on a 12-Node Sun SPARC® Enterprise T5440 cluster. Oracle Real Application Clusters is in production use at thousands of customers, enabling transparent scaling of real-world business applications.
- With this benchmark, Oracle and Sun become the first vendors to achieve world record TPC-C performance results using Flash Storage technology. Using the Sun™ Storage F5100 Flash Array, Oracle and Sun were able to set the world record using eight times less hardware than IBM used for its largest benchmark (3).
- The Oracle-Sun configuration consumed four times less energy than the IBM configuration even though it ran 26 percent faster.
- The Oracle-Sun benchmark demonstrated 16 times better transaction response times than the IBM benchmark(4).
- Oracle Database 11g running on the Solaris™ 10 Operating System achieved a record-breaking 7.7 million tpmC at $2.34/tpmC.
- Oracle is now the TPC-C world record holder in both major categories – performance(1) and price/performance(5).
“With this benchmark result, there’s no denying that Oracle Database 11g running on Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 servers outperforms IBM and DB2,” said Juan Loaiza, senior vice president, Systems Technology, Oracle.
