Oracle Beehive News & Articles

After many intellectual property and anti-trust concerns, one of the biggest deals in the technology space has been approved. Sun fans wipe their tears, as Oracle (news, site) chooses a new motto "Software. Hardware. Complete." -- aiming to provide a full stack of storage, hardware, operating systems, databases, middleware and Java.

All of the above are integral parts of the content management industry. Thus, we pondered a bit over what, if any, impact the Oracle/Sun merger will have on thee.

Beehive (news, site) was launched in October last year to give Oracle some leverage in the booming collaboration tools market. What does its big update have to offer to make you look away from the other solutions on the market?

Oracle has been serious about records management since they stepped up to the plate offering their first enterprise Records Management application in 2007. But that was 10g Release 3. Now it's 11g and it is the only product to successfully pass all parts of DoD 5015 V3 certification testing, including Baseline RM, Classified RM, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and Privacy Act (PA) RM. The question is, what are the other enterprise content management vendors doing?

Oracle comes to rescue the Enterprise 2.0 corporate bees with its new solution dubbed Beehive that aims to allow employees to collaborate through electronic workspaces, calendar, IM, e-mail, voice mail and conferencing applications.

All of that is done in the name of collaboration and the ability to easily share and simultaneously work on documents, e-mails and multimedia files.