Oracle Database Management Strategic Directions

1. Best Practices for managing Oracle database servers.
2. Oracle Fusion Middleware products like J2EE, ADF, XML, BPEL, SOA, Web Services, Discoverer...).
3. Oracle Application Servers and Apache.

• OTN is the Oracle Technology Network, the URL is http://otn.oracle.com, it is the Oracle equivalent of dev.mysql.com.     Contains software downloads, white papers, tutorials, forums, etc.  Joining is free.
• Oracle Database 11gR2 is the lastest release of the new database server and it can be downloaded on Linux systems currently.   The Release 2 is important because this is the main release customers migrate to.  Only early adopters usually go to a Release 1 of Oracle.   Expect a lot of activity at Oracle Open World in October on the Oracle Database 11gR2 release.
• Oracle Apps 11i/12i  - Oracle business applications (Financials, Manufacturing, HR, etc.)
  
• Oracle EBS  is Oracle's E-Business Suite containing Oracle business  applications.
  
• Oracle Fusion Applications - next generation integration of Oracle EBS, Siebel, JD Edwards,  PeopleSoft business applications.
• Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g - Technical foundation for Oracle Fusion business applications (Java, J2EE, Web Services, Java, BPEL, SOA, XML, ADF, Business Rules, ....)
• JDeveloper is an enterprise IDE supporting database design, UML design, PL/SQL development, XML development, Java Development, etc.
• Eclipse Enterprise Pack is a set of Oracle plugins for middleware development using the Eclipse IDE.
  
• Application Express (APEX) is Oracle's native web development environment.  Customers can build full blown web applications running in database server.  Very fast, runs natively compiled PL/SQL in database server to generate web applications.
  
• Oracle Weblogic Server - Application Server Oracle is basing all future middleware development on.
• Oracle Enterprise Manager (Grid Control) - Very robust enterprise tool for monitoring and managing Oracle infrastructures (operating system, databases, application servers, web services, applications, ....)
  

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