In its 30th year, Oracle's database is the most established software of its kind in the lot, showing that a mature product is OK as long as you lavish it with new perks.
Innovation is the key theme for Oracle's Database 11g, which company President Charles Phillips and other executives introduced at a launch event in New York in July.
While some analysts have pegged the update as incremental over the previous 10g database, there is no mistaking 11g for old hat; more than 400 new features, including new manageability features and testing utilities, dominate the release.
"People always need to manage more data, and the things they need to do with data become more complex," Phillips said. "We've got to keep up. So we continue to have these innovations year after year after year... This is really rocket science."
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