Oracle Beehive was announced at Oracle Openworld yesterday by Chuck Rozwat and Charles Phillips.
From the OTN Site:
Oracle Beehive provides an integrated set of collaboration services built on a single, scalable, open, and enterprise-class collaboration platform. Beehive allows users to access their collaborative information through familiar clients while enabling IT to consolidate collaborative infrastructure and implement people-centric applications with a centrally managed, secure, and compliant environment built on Oracle technology.
What does this mean? Well, for all those of you that have been involved in Oracle Collaboration Suite in the past, this is where things get cool. Beehive has been built from the ground up and redefines the term "easy implementation". Over the next few days. I'll be running through Beehive from the beginning:
- Downloading, installing
- Installed, now what?
- Integrating with OID
- Integrating with SSO
- My favorite, installing Beehive in a DMZ - yes, it's already been solved for you!
If you can't wait until my next post (days, not months like before...) here's some stuff for you.
First, have a read of the documents over at the Oracle Technology site,
If you're itching to start installing... go to Oracle By Example, and see how the OBE guys do it.
If you want to start talking to others about Beehive, hit the forums.
Later, I'll talk about Migrating to Beehive from Oracle 10gCollaboration Suite, and MSExchange, co-existence with Exchange and a few other bits and pieces.
Stay tuned. First up, installing Beehive.
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