Oracle has launched new content management software,
offering file management, security and event-driven
workflows.
As expected, Oracle unveiled Files 10g at this week's OpenWorld
user conference in San Francisco. Part of the Oracle Collaboration
Suite, Files 10g is based on the 10g Database and Application
Server.
Oracle said the application's support for web services should
help developers link it to other applications, and that end-users
throughout an enterprise could easily exploit the software through
personalised interfaces.
Oracle also announced that the Collaboration Suite would support
voice and instant messaging communications, boosting existing web
conferencing functions.
Executive vice-president Chuck Rozwat said that integrating
instant messaging into the suite - ensuring it had things such as a
common installation process with the rest of the platform - had
been a big job that took longer than expected to complete.
Some observers have criticised Oracle for allowing its
applications business to languish at the expense of the
infrastructure products. But Rowzat said that Oracle had actively
worked to balance its efforts between improving the 11i E-Business
Suite and its technology stack.
According to Rowzat, Oracle has done a "balanced job" in
supporting each product line, with both getting a healthy amount of
development resources.
Marc Songini writes for Computerworld