The nation's number two airline Virgin Blue has revealed it will shortly outsource the management of its key Oracle E-Business applications following a major upgrade of the systems.
One of the first converts to Oracle's support for Linux has revealed the public backlash it has endured in Australia since deciding to drop Red Hat.
Oracle has promised there would no immediate change to Hyperion's product plans following its US$3.3 billion buyout of the business intelligence vendor.
The open-source development tools consortium fills out its projects for Ajax-style Web development.
Oracle's Australian user group is tipping the software giant could announce new versions of its e-business suite, application server and database at its annual OpenWorld conference in the US next week.
Oracle and SAP customers will soon have to negotiate new licensing models with changes to both vendors' plans on the way.
The construction giant's AU$15 million, JD Edwards OneWorld implementation was initially intended as an upgrade to a struggling decade-old internal system but Thiess has found more than one reason to embrace a future version of the product.
Australian customers were today digesting the implications of last night's widely-predicted AU$7.6 billion acquisition of customer relationship management vendor Siebel Systems by Oracle.
Project Fusion will provide a common basis for all Oracle applications and compete head-to-head with the German rival's NetWeaver middleware.
Oracle is expected to jump into the emerging market for content management software later this year.
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