A question about focus or trend in oracle database releases

Hi,
I have a question on what is the focus or trend at a high level that can be seen in the way oracle has been delivering the data base. Among several things what can be summarized as a few technical focus areas. Can someone help? I think they are the following:
1) Focus on high availability (RAC,Data Guard)
2) Providing more and more features in the database (including oracle apex in database, regular expression support etc)
3) Exadata
4) Better managability with OEM
Can you help elaborate or suggest if this is appropriate?
Thanks

orausern wrote:
Hi,
I have a question on what is the focus or trend at a high level that can be seen in the way oracle has been delivering the data base. Among several things what can be summarized as a few technical focus areas. Can someone help? I think they are the following:
1) Focus on high availability (RAC,Data Guard)
2) Providing more and more features in the database (including oracle apex in database, regular expression support etc)
3) Exadata
4) Better managability with OEM
Can you help elaborate or suggest if this is appropriate?
ThanksI would echo what Sybrand has mentioned already. The way things are going , the focus is on two things IMO by Oracle. One, High Availability! Oracle corp wants to ensure with every upcoming release that the downtime , either planned or unplanned, must come down to its minimum value and there should not be almost anythign which would stop the business. There are tons of enhancements which we have seen in this manner and I am sure, there are going to be so many more upcoming.
Second is the need to ensure that database is not messed up by the human mistakes (and is going to be unavailable) . So that's why we are seeing more and more automated ways of handling/doing things. Now someone may say that its bad but I believe, it would take some time before it would be streamlined. It took 30 years for Oracle to come here so we shouldn't expect them to fix the automated database thingy in just two releases. Also, Oracle is focussing of giving a one-box-solution for almost all. So whatever you need, hardware, software, application and of course, database, you would get it all from one shop i.e. Oracle. The Exadata and Oracle's Enterprise Linux are going to be big helping factors in this thing.
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