Database Giant Oracle Hooks Non Profit Institute in Bar Harbor
July 27, 2008
Oracle dominates certain sectors of the database industry. Its Secure Enterprise Search known as SES10g has been a data step child. I attended a presentation about Oracle’s “new” enhancements to SES10g several months ago. Since that presentation by an engaging and supremely self confident Oracle executive, I haven’t heard much about SES10g. I did learn that one unit of Oracle has been selling Google Search Appliances. If indeed this is true, Oracle’s senior management is either very canny or unable to make Oracle’s units sing from the same page in the hymnal.
After a particularly interesting day trying to find a medical professional to provide information about my mom, I sat in the hospital’s lovely cafeteria and fired up my news reader. The item that caught my eye was “The Jackson Laboratory Improves Enterprise Search with Oracle”, written by Oracle and published on the Technology Marketing Corporation’s Web site here.
The “news” was that a non profit institute in Bar Harbor, Maine had licensed SES10g to provide “its employees and visitors to its Web site with relevant, secure and customizable search results about the organization’s research, courses, resources and services.” Please, read the complete release here. You may want to read the white papers about Oracle and its SES10g system.
One white paper–Secure Enterprise Search Version 10.1.8.2 An Oracle Technical White Paper October 2007″. The white paper is quite useful, and it includes diagrams showing the SES10g’s “architecture”. You will also see code snippets and learn that SES10g performs most of the functions of other big name search systems.
The hook for SES10g is security. The white paper touches lightly on the need to license various other Oracle components to obtain the maximum security capabilities for SES10g. That information is available on the Oracle Web site; for example, navigate to Oracle.com and search for Oblix.
I navigated to Jax.org to check out the genetics lab’s Web site. I ran the query “databases” and got a list of hits. I clicked on one of the hits from the first page of results and received this result:
The hit was a null set. Maybe I’m just unlucky or Jackson Institute has not yet deployed SES10g.
After this bit of bad luck, I started to formulate the notion that this is a PR puff piece. But, I thought, why would a giant company like Oracle issue a news release unless there was substance–steel inside the boxing glove?
Stephen Arnold, July 27, 2008
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