Recent Posts by Meghan Fritz

It was a very exciting Oracle OpenWorld this year for Oracle Linux and its partners with fantastic announcements being made around Autonomous Linux, but also because we celebrated the success we’ve achieved together in the past fiscal year. We were delighted to recognize and announce our Partner and Distributor of the Year in the JAPAC region during a dinner we held with our key channel partners from across the world. The JAPAC Partner of the Year Award went to Human Design....

It was a very exciting Oracle OpenWorld this year for Oracle Linux and its partners with fantastic announcements being made around Autonomous Linux, but also because we celebrated the success we’ve achieved together in the past fiscal year. We were delighted to recognize and announce our Partner and Distributor of the Year in the EMEA region during a dinner we held with our key channel partners from across the world. (Peter Ronge – Oracle Linux EMEA Channel Sales Director and Ha...

While databases have become larger, more complex, and more technologically advanced over the years, the essential function of the database administrator (DBA) working for Oracle partners and their customers remained relatively stable: primarily to keep the data safe, secure, and available for the user community. Recent technological changes – and especially the advent of the autonomous database – look set to alter the very nature of the position. Far from making DBAs...

Fresh off the heels of attaining CDP Climate A List recognition in 2018, Oracle is not resting on our laurels. We recently set two new targets that will address the emissions from both our Real Estate and Facilities operations, as well as our cloud data centers, which are hosted with our co-location partners. The new targets are to Reduce absolute emissions by 26 percent by 2025 (baseline 2015); Reduce emissions per energy used by 55 percent by 2025 (baseline 2015) Oracle will...

Oracle and Microsoft recently directly connected their clouds. The move makes great business sense on multiple levels, given that both software giants have long powered most enterprises around the world. Now together in a new partnership, they’re elevating business to multi-cloud integrations, far beyond the standard API integrations, and into a merged cloud state. Here workloads and data move seamlessly, leveraging all features of both clouds, adding security,...

Announcements around new features in Java SE releases are hitting the headlines every day. To help keep Java developers up-to-date with these changes, Oracle University has launched an awareness campaign to inform you about recent developments in Java SE 11 as well as how to obtain the Oracle Certified Professional Java SE 11 Developer credential. Java SE developers: you will find the new features in Java SE 11 useful for your everyday work. If you gain the Java SE 11...

Simplified administration, increased flexibility, faster development and deployment, and enhanced security – there are many reasons why your customers are turning to Linux. Initially developed for personal computers based on the Intel-x86 architecture nearly thirty years ago, Linux has since spread to more platforms than any other operating system, and has considerably increased its popularity over the last several years. Linux is now the dominant operating system for...

Check out the new Oracle Corporate Citizenship Report and learn how Oracle is changing lives by advancing education, protecting the environment, and strengthening communities around the world. The report highlights the tremendous strides we have made in our global sustainability and philanthropic efforts in the past year. “Good corporate citizenship means being intentional and thoughtful about the value we generate as a company—not only for our shareholders, but also for our...

Oracle has again been recognized as a corporate climate action leader by environmental nonprofit CDP, achieving a place on its Climate A List. Each year, thousands of companies disclose data to CDP about their environmental impacts, risks, and opportunities, at the request of 650 institutional investors representing over US$87 trillion in assets. CDP assesses companies on the comprehensiveness of their disclosure, awareness, the proactive management of environmental risks,...