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Search: Next-generation RDBMS Structured Search

By Dick Weisinger

Search technology advances have been capturing top headlines on a nearly daily basis.  From our perspective, the evolution of tools in the Enterprise Search space is what is driving all the excitement.  That includes offerings from FAST, Autonomy Endeca, and

SOA: Revolution in Computing — Event Stream Processing

By Dick Weisinger

Oracle proposed a vision of next-generation SOA called SOA 2.0 based on asynchronous events being triggered by alerts and event notifications.  While the Oracle marketing machine faltered with that vision, the idea an SOA architecture with ‘smarter’ events may not

Oracle: The Trend Towards Embeddable

By Dick Weisinger

‘Embeddable’ is becoming a characteristic of competitive advantage.  Embeddable usually implies a software component that is small, self-contained and can be easily ‘dropped into’ an application.  In mid-2006, Oracle raised the level of promotion of ContentDB, Oracle’s content management middleware, and signed

SaaS: Oracle's move into On-Demand / Oracle 11g RDBMS

By Dick Weisinger

   The numbers coming out of this week’s Oracle OpenWorld show here in San Francisco have been huge.  42,000 attendees.  Attendees from 120 different countries.  400 demos on the conference floor.  482 new features in the upcoming Oracle 11g RDBMS.  (See

Formtek + Dynatrek collaborate to unite Structured and Unstructured Data Sources

By Dick Weisinger

       Today Formtek and Dynatrek announced an agreement to collaborate in the creation of enterprise solutions that combine the expertise of the two companies in the areas of structured and unstructured data management.  Dynatrek, headquartered in Tokyo, has long-term expertise