By Joe McKendrick
Oracle is a fast-changing company, and in recent years, its pace has accelerated to blinding speed. The software giant has expanded well beyond its relational database roots to encompass applications, management tools, service-oriented architecture and middleware, and even hardware. There are now many components to Oracle - from three major databases, to enterprise resource applications, to web applications to development languages to open source desktop tools.
Many of these changes have resulted from changes of focus for the company; many others as a result of the company's breathtaking range of acquisitions, from Sun Microsystems to Hyperion.
How can IT managers, developers, and partners keep up with such a fast-changing giant in the market? What kind of ecosphere is evolving? And will the various components - from the Java Community to Solaris-SPARC server users to open-source proponents - see a common vision emerging from all this?
To gain insights on these changes, DBTA spoke to a number of Oracle industry partners, and assembled a list of the eight leading categories of the Oracle ecosphere ... full article in the September E-Edition of DBTA.
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