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Oracle Best Practices and recommendations resources, news, and support articles.

Open Source Survey: Oracle Products on Top

Oracle continues to work with the open source community to bring the most innovative and productive software to market (more). Oracle products received the most votes in several key categories of the 2010 Linux Journal Reader's Choice Awards. With over 12,000 technologists reporting, these product earned top spots:

Best Office Suite: OpenOffice.org
Best Single Office Program: OpenOffice.org Writer
Best Database: MySQL
Best Virtualization Solution: VirtualBox

Open Source Survey: Oracle Products on Top

Oracle continues to work with the open source community to bring the most innovative and productive software to market (more). Oracle products received the most votes in several key categories of the 2010 Linux Journal Reader's Choice Awards. With over 12,000 technologists reporting, these product earned top spots:

Best Office Suite: OpenOffice.org

Best Single Office Program: OpenOffice.org Writer

Best Database: MySQL

Best Virtualization Solution: VirtualBox


Open Source Survey: Oracle Products on Top

Oracle continues to work with the open source community to bring the most innovative and productive software to market (more). Oracle products received the most votes in several key categories of the 2010 Linux Journal Reader's Choice Awards. With over 12,000 technologists reporting, these product earned top spots:

Best Office Suite: OpenOffice.org

Best Single Office Program: OpenOffice.org Writer

Best Database: MySQL

Best Virtualization Solution: VirtualBox


MySQL 5.5

New performance and scalability enhancements, continued Investment in MySQL (see press release).

MySQL 5.5

New performance and scalability enhancements, continued Investment in MySQL (see press release).

"The latest release of MySQL further exemplifies Oracle's commitment to the MySQL community and investment in delivering rapid innovation and enhancements to the MySQL platform" said Edward Screven, Oracle's Chief Corporate Architect.

MySQL 5.5

New performance and scalability enhancements, continued Investment in MySQL (see press release).

"The latest release of MySQL further exemplifies Oracle's commitment to the MySQL community and investment in delivering rapid innovation and enhancements to the MySQL platform" said Edward Screven, Oracle's Chief Corporate Architect.

Oracle Cloud Office and Oracle Open Office 3.3

Industry's First Complete, Open Standards-Based Office Productivity Suites for Desktop, Web and Mobile Users were launched today, 15 December 2010 (press release).

Based on the Open Document Format (ODF) and open web standards, Oracle Open Office enables users to share files on any system as it is compatible with both legacy Microsoft Office documents and de facto formats, Portable Document Format (PDF), and modern web 2.0 publishing.

Oracle Cloud Office and Oracle Open Office 3.3

Industry's First Complete, Open Standards-Based Office Productivity Suites for Desktop, Web and Mobile Users were launched today, 15 December 2010 (press release).

Based on the Open Document Format (ODF) and open web standards, Oracle Open Office enables users to share files on any system as it is compatible with both legacy Microsoft Office documents and de facto formats, Portable Document Format (PDF), and modern web 2.0 publishing.

Oracle Cloud Office and Oracle Open Office 3.3

Industry's First Complete, Open Standards-Based Office Productivity Suites for Desktop, Web and Mobile Users were launched today, 15 December 2010 (press release).

Based on the Open Document Format (ODF) and open web standards, Oracle Open Office enables users to share files on any system as it is compatible with both legacy Microsoft Office documents and de facto formats, Portable Document Format (PDF), and modern web 2.0 publishing.

Horizontal Guidelines adopted today

The European Commission has revised its rules for the assessment of co-operation agreements between competitors, so called horizontal co-operation agreements (see here).

Earlier this year, the draft guidelines were subject to a public consultation (see responses here).

A key feature is the substantial revision of the chapter on standardization agreements.

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