Oracle Products and Services A Brief Overview of the Oracle Product and Service Lines Oracle is one of the premier database and application providers in the Industry. With the support of developers world wide, Oracle offers cutting edge technology in both the public and private sectors. Oracle has taken on many of its partners and today competes with some of the biggest names in the industry, such as: Computer Associates with the Ingres database IBM with DB/2 database Informix with the Informix database Microsoft with Access and SQL Server database Software AG with ADABAS PostgressSQL (free open source database)With all these different competitors, it is sometimes difficult for people to understand what business Oracle is in. Oracle Corporation is a supplier of software for the management of information. This includes database management, application development, business intelligence, and the development of Internet-based business applications. Oracle also offers a full range of integrated industry packages that can be brought in-house and customized or purchased as a service, whereby Oracle maintains the application for the customer (Abbey, 13).They offer a wide range of supporting services, including one of the largest educational/training businesses in the world, consulting, and full system integration, no matter how small or large the project. As a product set, Oracle can be broken down into five areas: Oracle 9i database Oracle 9i Application Server Internet Development Suite Data Warehousing and Business Development Oracle E-Business SuiteOracle 9i (The most current offering) Database is the state of the art in object-relational databases. Voted Editors Choice by PC magazine and the #1 database for Linux by Linux Journal, Oracle9i Database is the most scalable and full-featured database available. Whether driving your web site, package...
