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on Sep 30, 2011 in Industry Trends | 0 comments
Many people do not know that Oracle versions represent something more than just an incremented number. People have been saying 8i, 9i, 10g, and 11g for years, conditioning their brains to forget even asking what the meaning or thought is behind the *letter* at the end of the version number, just as many people commonly use other technology acronyms so commonly while forgetting their expanded versions, like TCP, AJAX, SOAP, and so on.
So, as Oracle may set to announce new versions and releases of big products in the coming week, we turn our sights to the version 12 release? I have been saying for months that my best guess for this will be 12c, where the “c” stands for Cloud (or maybe Collaboration, though I feel more strongly about the intention being “Cloud”). By the way, the “i” stood for Internet while the “g” stood for Grid.
We’ll keep you posted as we get the official word, but remember where you heard the 12c (for Cloud) prediction.
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on Oct 13, 2010 in Industry Trends | 0 comments
Oracle’s 11g Middleware management has thrown out a stat that might make your head spin. If it doesn’t, it probably should a little.
For the Middleware 11g product line, they have spent over 16,000,000 (sixteen million) hours on quality assurance and testing. You can do some various forms of computation, but that gets me somewhere to a minimum cost near half-a-billion dollars on testing.
They claim something similar for development time (over 10,000 person years which — by my calculations — is even more than 16,000,000 hours). So, I think Oracle is telling us they have spent over $1 billion dollars on development and testing alone for 11g.
This doesn’t include what goes into the rest of the operations, including what I believe to be significant marketing investments specific to Middleware 11g.
Interesting data points indeed, and a number of conclusions one can begin to be drawn from this, which I will leave to our readers.
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