Mindreef

By Rick Whiting, CMP Channel
3:51 PM EDT Tue. Aug. 14, 2007 

Oracle has begun shipping the next generation of its flagship database... Oracle formally debuted the new 11g release last month, touting its advanced data partitioning and compression capabilities, improved security and enhanced ability to handle real-time data, and its ability to work with new data types such as RFID tags and digital medical images. A Gartner report issued after the debut predicted that the new features and functionality would drive between 15 percent and 20 percent of the Oracle customer base to upgrade to 11g within 12 months " a faster adoption rate than earlier versions of the product.

That jives with what Jim Murphy, product development vice president at Mindreef, is hearing from his customers. Mindreef develops its SOAPscope software for testing service-oriented architecture systems and 80% of Mindreef's customers run those tools on Oracle's database. "The thing that really caught our development group's attention is its (11g's) improved manageability," Murphy says, noting that (11g) helps customers deploy SOAPscope more easily. Customers have been asking about Mindreef support for 11g since early this year, he says. SOAPscope supports the new database....

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