Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center is the newest addition in the Oracle Enterprise Manager family. It is used to manage both physical and virtual systems, and manages across the entire system lifecycle from discovery to provisioning, updating, monitoring and management.
The Oracle virtualization portfolio got a boost with the company's acquisition of Sun, and it has signaled a willingness to take on VMware. Oracle VM 3, which is expected this spring, will give Oracle credible Xen-based server virtualization that could challenge VMware, Microsoft and Citrix Systems Inc. -- at least in the tens of thousands of Oracle database and application shops. A SearchServerVirtualization.com article explores Oracle's virtualization play.
March 14 is the deadline for those wanting to submit papers for the JavaOne 2010 conference. This year's conference will be co-located with Oracle Develop during the week of Oracle OpenWorld. Set for Sept. 19-23 in San Francisco, JavaOne 2010 will be offering the following tracks, and proposals to speak are being accepted under them: Core Java Platform; Java SE and Desktop Java; Java EE and Java for Enterprise Applications; JavaFX and Rich User Experience; Java ME and Mobile; Java for Devices, Card, and TV; and The Java Frontier.
After accepting keys to the city of San Francisco in tribute to him and his racing team BMW Oracle for winning the 33rd America's cup match this February, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said he expects Sun's formerly unprofitable operations to become profitable "right away" as part of Oracle. Following the Feb. 20th celebration, Ellison basically reiterated what he said during the Jan. 27 Oracle + Sun Strategy teleconference: "And how soon will [Sun's profitability] occur? How long do investors have to wait? Not at all; not at all. We'll be profitable this - in February. We'll be profitable in March. We'll be profitable in April - and when I say 'we': the Sun business. We'll be profitable in May."
Oracle's Cloud Computing Forum will kick-off its North American leg of the tour on Feb. 23, in L.A., while simultaneously continuing its Europe, Middle East, and Africa tour and Asia Pacific tour on the topic with events in London, Munich, and Seoul on the same day. The event stands in contrast to CEO Larry Ellison's well-publicized mocking of cloud computing, which he has deemed a rebranding and conflation of existing technologies.
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