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Oracle Tackles Unstructured Data With New Content-Management System: Page 2 of 2

The upgraded Collaboration Suite will use instant messaging and other collaboration technologies to tie Oracle database users closer together and allow them to share information, detect who's available online, and chat via either text or voice within a secure environment, Doherty says.

In addition, Oracle plans to build grid-computing controls into the second release of its Oracle 10g Application Server early next year. It will provide distributed configuration-management and workload-balancing capabilities for use across a grid system's multiple servers. It will also offer more built-in capabilities for building Web services, says Thomas Kurian, senior VP of Oracle server technologies.

Application Server 10g will support the Business Process Execution Language for building business processes as Web services. It will support such standards as Web Services-Reliability and Web Services-Security from the Organization for Structured Information Standards, an Internet standards body. WS-Reliability is a means for guaranteeing receipt of Simple Object Access Protocol messages over the Internet, allowing one party to know that another has received information and may not repudiate acceptance of the message. WS-Security sets specifications for making sure that Soap messages haven't been tampered with and come from an identifiable sender.