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by David R. Brousell, MA Editorial Staff
Posted on Tuesday, September 23, 2008 10:20:33 AM Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox    | Abstract: | The next generation of the company’s Collaboration Suite aims to manage and streamline the disjointed applications of larger enterprises. |
| Keywords: | Oracle Beehive, Oracle OpenWorld, Oracle collaboration |
SAN FRANCISCO — Kicking off its annual OpenWorld user and partner conference in San Francisco Monday, Oracle Corp. formally introduced a collaboration software tool that it said is targeted at large organizations grappling with the problem of collaboration “fragmentation.”
The product, called Oracle Beehive, was announced by Oracle President Charles Phillips during his keynote presentation. Phillips described Oracle Beehive, a successor to Oracle’s Collaboration Suite product, as a “brand new product” for enterprise collaboration that Oracle has been developing for the past three years.
Oracle Beehive encompasses and integrates such functions as team workspaces, calendars, instant messaging, and e-mail using a unified object model that also takes advantage of security capabilities in the Oracle database, officials said. Beehive can be used with Microsoft Outlook and Exchange or Lotus Notes, and can run on Windows, Linux, or Solaris systems. It became available in May to select customers. Oracle is pricing the product, which can be used on-premises as a licensed software product or on-demand, at $120 per user.
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