Oracle Presses On With Enterprise Manager 11g
Oracle, the ultimate IT hoarder, spent tens of billions of dollars to accumulate a stash of best-of-breed software applications and, with the Sun acquisition, hardware components to position itself as the ultimate one-stop shop for all things IT.
With this week's release of Enterprise Manager 11g, the software-giant-turned-systems-neophyte is delivering a suite of management applications designed to wring out some of the efficiencies expected and promised by bringing all these moving parts under one vendor.
In its back-to-the future strategy reminiscentsomeone would say identical toIBM's mainframe heyday, Oracle now has an opportunity to deliver the complementary management tools needed to make it all work and generate a healthy new revenue stream.
Database Journal takes a gander at how Enterprise Manager 11g will play the conductor in tomorrow's enterprise IT symphony.
Enterprise Manager 11g's release marks the next logical step in Oracle's (NASDAQ: ORCL) evolution from a mere database software vendor to an all-encompassing systems provider, bringing a backend management tool set for automating, configuring and updating software and hardware throughout the enterprise.