Oracle will soon release its Database 12c R2 and at least one analyst is betting that the product will fuel revenue growth for years to come. Of course, the wild card is open source database options ...

Oracle has announced Oracle Database 12c release 2, which will be available in the cloud before it ships to on-premises users. In related news, new Exadata systems have been revealed. Oracle Database ...

Oracle 12c R1 and R2 offer a bevy of new features — where to start? SELECT contributor Rich Niemiec, Viscosity North America, brings an article highlighting performance tuning tips and techniques in ...

Oracle has confirmed plans to make the next major update to its 12c database available only in the cloud for a period of time to entice customers that currently run the software in their own data ...

Oracle’s long-awaited 12c database has apparently received a firm launch date, with a company executive stating that it will be released “within the next two weeks.” In addition, Oracle plans to ...

Oracle's Database 12c R2: Boom, bust, or meh upgrade cycle ahead? One analyst argues that Oracle is about to see a surge in database upgrades, but it's unclear how much cloud and open source options ...

SAP won’t support the initial release, 12.1.0.1, but will certify version 12.1.0.2, according to a road map document posted on SAP’s website. This is being done to “allow more generous overlap” with ...

My Fourth of July sunburn was worth it—lucky I was wearing my hat—because I came back from the beach with a great list of story links. That’s what we do each Friday, when OracleVoice scours the web to ...

Check the installer's logs (they're there somewhere...) You probably had some sort of X error. The Oracle Installer is a Java GUI application and it needs a display ...

Oracle has announced Oracle Database 12c release 2, which will be available in the cloud before it ships to on-premises users. In related news, new Exadata systems have been revealed.