Oracle Talks Innovation with Database 11g Release
Oracle Talks Innovation with Database 11g Release
July 12, 2007: After four years in the making and 36,000 person-months of development, Oracle has released its much anticipated Oracle Database 11g.
With the solution unveiled this morning, customers will still need to wait until August when it is first release on the Linux platform, other platforms will be announced at later dates. But based on market research, Oracles believes more than 35 percent of its customers will migrate to 11g in the first 12 months of its release.
Speaking on a conference call to Asia Pacific journalists, Andrew Mendelssohn, Senior Vice President, Oracle Server Technologies says the release is out to target innovation, particularly the IT professional’s ability to change infrastructure without incurring downtime through the Oracle Real Application Testing.
“The number one thing in this release is the ability to help customers innovate and change their infrastructure,” he says.
Oracle says more than will be included to build on the 30 years experience the company has had on design. Mendelssohn particularly noted the Oracle Data Guard as an important inclusion in the product, allowing users to create a stand-by copy of a database to move too.
“Data guard is not just a way of protecting against disasters, but also on the performance of your site,” says Mendelsohn. “It has a stream of abilities we are very excited about, especially that a 10g to 11g migration can be done completely online.
“We make it possible for customers to have 24/7 disaster recovery capabilities that they might not have previously though was effective.
Mendelsohn does not seem to concerned about the competition. When asked about the market threat from Microsoft, he labelled it a ‘nice’ product serving the SMB market. “In the enterprise market we don’t really compete with Microsoft or IBM for that matter,” he said. “We see ourselves five years ahead on this product.”
The release includes significant data partitioning and compression capabilities for enhance lifecycle management and storage management. Oracle says it will automate many of the manual data partitioning operation and allow much of its storage management to be driven by business rules. The advanced data compression capabilities can be applied to both structured and unstructured data managed in transaction processing, data warehousing, and content management environments.