Generis has completed our 2012 survey of CMS plans and requirements. We had many more responses this year than last, with over 60 companies responding. While far from being a comprehensive, scientific study, it shows some interesting trends compared to 2011, while companies continue to suffer some of the same challenges with their existing CMS platforms.
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Oracle Buys Fatwire
On June 21, 2011, Oracle announced that it has agreed to acquire FatWire Software (FatWire), a leading provider of web experience management solutions.
FatWire's solutions are designed for business users with easy-to-use tools, enabling marketers to optimize the online experience for customers.
Packt Publishing Offers New Discounts on Multiple Purchases
Packt, publisher of IT books on content management technologies like Drupal, Joomla, has today announced the launch of new discounts for any orders of multiple books. Visitors to www.PacktPub.com who purchase 2-4 books will automatically receive an 18% discount, while those who purchase 5-10 books will receive 20% off of the books’ cover prices.
Oracle Security Inside Out Summit Explores Ways to Protect Enterprises from Security Breaches
Discover the Key Differentiators and Future Vision for Identity Management and Database Security
London, UK – September 8, 2009
News Facts
• On September 15th 2009, at the Mayfair Hotel, London, Oracle will host Oracle Security Inside Out Summit, an event designed to help organisations discover sustainable and affordable ways to protect themselves against security breaches. Oracle will also offer strategic insight into the latest innovations in security and compliance technologies
• Security and compliance solutions to be covered at the summit include database security, identity management, fraud prevention and compliance automation
• Des Powley, Technical Director, Security and Identity Management, Oracle, will be discussing the security risks faced by modern enterprises today and how best to tackle these through Application-Centric Identity Management
What happens after the merger of Oracle and Sun?
Like a lot of people, I too wonder what will happen to the MySQL, Java, and hardware once Sun is integrated into Oracle. I have opinions but those opinions alone aren't worth a hill of NetBeans. Luckily, people like Gavin Clarke know what they're talking about. Clarke has written an excellent article at The Register titled, Sun and Oracle: end of a beautiful dream.
Oracle will take the decisions Sun could not, and that's what'll have people at Sun worried. And while change should be welcomed, there's no way this should be seen as a bright new dawn for Sun customers or those who've come to believe in its actions on open source or Java.
The first thing you can expect from a Oracle acquisition is due-diligence of the assets and a comparative analysis where Oracle has competing assets. Oracle will weigh up what's worth keeping and jettison the rest. The latter will be marked by end-of-lifing via support and maintenance, or releasing code to the community - where it will fade and die.
The article isn't as gloomy as the title or the above excerpt would imply. However, the article is pragmatic and leaves little room for dreamers. Be sure to read the article!
Internetnews.com: PostgreSQL 8.2 Closes The Gap
"PostgreSQL developers expect that the new version will drive such migrations /from Oracle, IBM DB2, or Microsoft SQL/ because of the improved performance, features and administration capabilities. They anticipate an overall performance gain of between 10 percent and 20 percent for most applications.
PostgreSQL 8.2 is also taking aim at the open source MySQL database."
Quoting IT: Oracle and Linux
"Or, perhaps, I should say that Oracle is firing a shot at the heart of Red Hat, and commercial Linux?
This really, really ticks me off.
Oracle's claims as to why it felt it had to make this move are BS."
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, "Oracle's Red Hat rip-off", Linux-Watch, October 25, 2006
