Oracle unveils Oracle Database 11g

With more than 400 features, 15 million test hours, and 36,000 person-months of development, Oracle Database 11g is the most innovative and highest quality software product Oracle has ever announced.

"Oracle Database 11g, built on 30 years of design experience, delivers the next generation of enterprise information management capabilities," said Andy Cleverly, Director, Oracle Technology, EMEA.

"More than ever, our customers in the Middle East are facing challenges related to rapid data growth, increased data integration, and data connectivity IT cost pressures. Oracle Database 10g pioneered grid computing, and more than half of Oracle customers in the region have moved to that release. Oracle Database 11g delivers the key features our regional customers have asked for to accelerate broad adoption and growth of Oracle grids, representing real innovation that addresses real challenges, as told to us by real customers."

According to Gartner's latest report, Oracle leads the worldwide relational database management systems (RDBMS) software market with 47.1 per cent share of the market. The company has a revenue growth of 14.9 per cent, faster than the market average of 14.2 per cent, with US$7.2 billion in revenues; and continues to hold more market share than its two closest competitors combined.

Cleverly added:

"Managing the risk and cost of implementing new software, applications, and other system changes and updates is one of the most significant challenges facing organizations in the Middle East. Oracle Database 11g is ideally suited to enable those changes with the industry's highest degree of automation and system availability, and we believe that GITEX provides an unparalleled opportunity for both existing Oracle customers and new ones to get a firsthand look at the capabilities of Oracle Database 11g."

Oracle Database 11g can help organizations take control of their enterprise information, gain better business insight, and quickly and confidently adapt to an increasingly changing competitive environment. To do this, the new release extends Oracle's unique database clustering, data center automation, and workload management capabilities. With secure, highly available and scalable grids of low-cost servers and storage, Oracle's regional customers can tackle the most demanding transaction processing, data warehousing, and content management applications.

Oracle offers a wide range of options to extend the power of Oracle Database 11g to meet specific requirements in the areas of performance and availability, security and compliance, data warehousing, manageability and integration of unstructured data. Oracle Database 11g helps lower the cost of computing, offers higher quality service, has proven benefits of Grid computing, and is easy to manage.