UPDATED 12:10 EDT / OCTOBER 03 2012

Oracle OpenWorld Day 3: New Telco Appliance, PeopleSoft Update and Java 7

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison took stage on Sunday at OpenWorld and revealed the next generation Exa machines and the 12c database software, along with his company’s plans to pursue a services strategy, and lastly, a big partnership with Nokia.  Thankfully the one-hour long opening keynote hasn’t stopped Oracle from keeping the remaining four days of the event interesting, so let’s recap on day 3 of OpenWorld 2012.

Yesterday Oracle debuted a newly engineered system specifically built for telecommunications companies and service providers. The Oracle Network Applications Platform is a pre-configured appliance that allows telcos to skip the process of putting together hardware and software components from different vendors. It can deliver service availability of ‘up to seven 9’s’, and can achieve reduce overheads associated with integration and testing costs by up to a third.

Oracle is touting a couple of other stats as well: the Network Applications Platform can supposedly reduce operational costs by up to 64 percent, while shaving as much 40 percent off the time-to-market of new services.

Day 3 also featured the launch of a new mobile solutions package. The PeopleSoft HR software portfolio was extended with the addition of Mobile Expenses, the Mobile Approvals employee communications tool and Mobile Company Directory, an internal search service. The three HTML5 apps are optimized for the iPad and work as an extension of the desktop environment.

Lastly, Oracle gave the community a sneak peak into the next release of Java. Version 7 will feature better HTML5 support thanks to new APIs and a more flexible security configuration, in addition to support for technologies such as Servlet 3.1 NIO and WebSockets. Oracle says that the development effort is carried by hundreds of engineers from no less than 30 different enterprises.

Be sure to follow SiliconAngle’s ongoing event coverage, including live broadcasts and analysis straight from Oracle OpenWorld 2012.


A message from John Furrier, co-founder of SiliconANGLE:

Your vote of support is important to us and it helps us keep the content FREE.

One click below supports our mission to provide free, deep, and relevant content.  

Join our community on YouTube

Join the community that includes more than 15,000 #CubeAlumni experts, including Amazon.com CEO Andy Jassy, Dell Technologies founder and CEO Michael Dell, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger, and many more luminaries and experts.

“TheCUBE is an important partner to the industry. You guys really are a part of our events and we really appreciate you coming and I know people appreciate the content you create as well” – Andy Jassy

THANK YOU