Oracle Headlines

Date: May 31, 2012
Time: 1 PM EST

Organizations are reaping the benefits of simplifying IT, lowering costs and dramatically improving transactional throughput by deploying optimized application-to-disk solutions. These pre-tuned, tested solutions encompass a wide variety of applications and use cases. Hear from industry experts, and IT executives, how these full-stack solutions can achieve three times faster deployment times and up to 75% reductions in acquisition and operational costs.

Customers are rapidly realizing the benefits of integrated, application-to-disk solutions that are fully optimized, pre-tuned and tested. Join this virtual event to hear:

• Gartner research highlights how pre-tested solutions are important to today's data centers
• How Oracle Software Runs Best on Oracle Hardware: Application-to-Disk Use Cases from Oracle experts

Your data center can be fast, highly productive and very economical. Register today and find out how.

Attend the Webcast series to hear best practices from customers and industry leaders.

Are your enterprise applications slow to respond and costly to maintain? Are you dealing with infrastructure silos? If so, and you're ready to rethink your application architecture and cloud computing, this Webcast series is for you.

In this Webcast series, we'll explore best practices for simplifying IT operations while delivering the application performance that the business needs. You'll learn from Gartner about the convergence of cloud-based application infrastructure and fabric computing. You'll also hear best practices from Oracle product experts and customers. Please select the sessions you are interested in attending and then complete the registration form below.

Learn the key tools, frameworks, techniques, and best practices for building database-backed applications through presentations and hands-on labs demonstrating innovative and performance-enhancing methods. Oracle database application development experts will answer your questions via real-time moderated chat. Enjoy post-event benefits such as advanced lab content downloads.

Americas - Tuesday May 15th, 2012
9:00 am - 1:00 pm PDT
12:00 pm - 4:00 pm EST
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm BRT

The Oracle Java teams have delivered update releases for Java SE and Java FX.

Java SE 7 Update 4

• This is the first time Oracle is delivering both the JDK and JavaFX SDK for Mac OS X
• Oracle has continued to work on merging JRockit and HotSpot JVMs to leverage the best features in each.
• Java SE 7 Update 4 features includes the next-generation Garbage Collection algorithm Garbage First (G1).
• New JVM (Java HotSpot Virtual Machine, version 23) features JRockit JVM feature convergence. Some of the value-add features of the JRockit JVM are re-implemented in the HotSpot JVM.
• Java SE 7 Update 4 is the first consumer release of the Java 7 JRE that will be made available as the default version on Java.com.

Java FX

The JavaFX 2.1 release includes the JavaFX Software Development Kit (SDK) for the Windows and Mac OS X platforms. The JavaFX SDK provides the tools and technologies for developing JavaFX applications with these new features:

• Playback support for digital media stored in the MPEG-4 multimedia container format containing H.264/AVC video and Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) audio.
• New Webview support for JavaScript to Java method calls, which allows a user to render HTML/JavaScript and let JavaScript (in WebView) make calls to Java APIs to offload specific operations to Java.
• The JavaFX 2.1 release adds the ability to use Windows-style LCD sub-pixel rendering. All the JavaFX UI controls will be LCD-text enabled by default on Windows, as will WebView, the Webkit-based node for rendering Web content. Applications can also opt-in to use LCD text on the low-level scenegraph text node by a new API.
• Additional user interface enhancements in JavaFX 2.1 include: controls for combo box, stacked chart and application-wide menu bar.
• JavaFX Scene Builder 1.0 Early Access - a visual layout tool for the JavaFX platform. The JavaFX Scene Builder enables designing UI screens by simply dragging and positioning objects.

Oracle is again the #1 vendor in the Application Server category with a market share of 43.1% based on revenue, according to the most recent Gartner "Market Share: All Software Markets, Worldwide 2011" report.

With a strong growth rate of 18.4%, higher even than in 2010, Oracle continues to lead the application server category with a total market share (based on revenue) greater than the next three competitors combined and almost 10 points higher than its nearest competitor.

Oracle meets its environmental goals with products we design for sustainability -- find out how you can too.

Oracle sees sustainability as a natural extension of how its business operates. The same sustainability solutions and environmental best practices that are embedded in our normal business operations are also available to our customers. Whether through measurement accounting, waste reductions, the elimination of hazardous materials, or optimizations, Oracle is in the unique position of being able to provide sustainability solutions for customers that span the entire spectrum of IT and business requirements.

Learn how to achieve environmental best practices with products designed to help you meet your sustainability goals.

Oracle Database 11g Release 2 exceeds SAP Sybase in DBA productivity.

A recent ORC International cost comparison study found that Oracle Database 11g Release 2 far exceeded SAP Sybase ASE 15.7 in DBA productivity and helped to significantly lower database management costs.

The study concluded Oracle Database 11g allowed IT organizations and DBAs to:

• Perform administrative tasks 71% faster
• Take 43% fewer steps for the same set of standard routine functions
• Save up to US$85,200 per year, per DBA by increasing productivity

Register to download the study and find out how Oracle offers more performance, more automation, and more control than Sybase--all at a lower cost.

Find out how Solaris 11 will revolutionize your cloud and support your mission-critical applications.

The demands placed on IT organizations to increase performance, reduce complexity and lower costs are putting a strain on constantly shrinking budgets. Moving to the cloud can be a solution, but complications surrounding security and manageability can make the transition daunting.

Join the Online Forum on the 25th April to hear both customers and Oracle experts, including Markus Flierl, Vice President of Oracle Solaris Engineering, explain how the latest developments to Oracle Solaris 11 since its launch in November can help revolutionize your cloud adoption and transform your data center.

You'll discover how Oracle Solaris 11 can help you:

• Improve Performance and Simplify the Management and Deployment of over 11,000 third-party Applications
• Maximize Systems Utilization
• Protect Your Data
• Enhance Business Agility
• Boost Productivity

With live online chat available for all sessions you'll be able to ask the experts the questions that are important to you on Oracle Solaris.