The Oracle on Windows Zone
The Oracle on Windows Zone was created by Grey Matter as part of a joint project with Oracle to provide .Net developers with information resources to help them take advantage of Oracle technology in their applications. The portal, which was active between 2006 and 2009, provided resources to help developers through the technology evaluation, development and deployment phases.
Oracle commissioned Grey Matter to run the portal on account of their strength in the developer tools market place and their understanding of the needs of both the .NET and database communities. Grey Matter, an independent reseller of developer tools and software licensing, now runs a dedicated portal for developers and other IT professionals that covers a wide spectrum of technologies including Oracle, Microsoft and other third party products. To enable us to provide a more personal and independent level of service, the Oracle on Windows Zone is now closed and we are in the process of migrating the resources to Grey Matter's new portal - Software Know How We have left some resources in place here while the transfer of information takes place.
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Graham Keitch, O-Zone administrator
2011, March 9th
Why Oracle on Windows?
Oracle is a best of breed database with unique features and strengths. Equally, .NET is now well established and Microsoft Visual Studio is the programming environment of choice for many developers. The combination of Oracle and Microsoft Visual Studio is the best of both worlds. Oracle is a Visual Studio Industry Partner (VSIP) and provides free tools that enable .NET developers to work seamlessly with Oracle Database from within Visual Studio.
Cross-platform issues are no longer a major obstacle in today’s service orientated environments. Data silos held on Oracle can be repurposed and made accessible to the rest of the IT infrastructure which, in many case, will be based on the Microsoft platform. At the same time, .NET programmers need not be excluded from the power of the Oracle data layer.
Oracle on Windows - a world record for price / performance
Microsoft Windows is strategically important to Oracle. Version 7 of Oracle was the first database to ship on Windows back in 1994. More recently, Oracle Database 10g provided support for the .NET CLR before Microsoft SQL Server. The latest Database 11g Windows edition is not a straight port of the Unix and Linux code; it has been specifically re-engineered to take advantage of the Windows platform. Oracle Database 11g Standard Edition One running on a Windows-based Dell PowerEdge 2900 server with one Intel Quad-Core Xeon 2.66 GHz processor, delivered the best price-per-transaction-per-minute ever achieved with the TPC-C benchmark. Oracle on Windows is a record breaking technology combination. Read more...