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Organizations Worldwide Adopt Oracle Database 11g
April 2008 by Marc Jacob
Oracle announced that Melbourne Health, Mobiltel, the Northern California Power Agency, and RTL, among others, are in production with Oracle(r) Database 11g to power core transaction processing, decision support and content management applications.
A major public health provider in Victoria, Australia, Melbourne Health provides comprehensive acute, sub-acute and community-based health care programs. Melbourne Health piloted DICOM image storage, metadata (image information) extraction and DICOM image retrieval, ability to anonymize the image, generation of thumbnails, and conformance validation of Oracle Database 11g on Windows and Linux platforms. The health provider runs Oracle Database 11g on Windows in production.
Mobiltel is the largest mobile operator in Bulgaria, serving over five million customers. To deliver a higher quality of service and to respond more effectively to ever changing business needs, Mobiltel deployed Oracle Database 11g on Linux in August 2007.
Located in Roseville, Calif., the Northern California Power Agency (NCPA) is a joint powers agency that provides support for the electric utility operations of 17 member communities and districts in northern and central Calif. The NCPA deployed Oracle Database 11g on Windows in the fall of 2007 to take advantage of Oracle XML DB, a feature that provides high-performance XML storage and retrieval. Oracle XML DB helps the agency to manage very large and complex power settlements data consumed by every electric utility in the state.
RTL is France’s leading radio network and part of RTL Group, the European entertainment network, with interests in 42 television channels and 32 radio stations in 10 countries and content production throughout the world. On January 31, 2008, RTL launched a new version of its Web site at http://www.rtl.fr. The new site features a wealth of audio and written content spanning news, politics, business, government, and more, and now offers visitors keyword searches of the site to quickly and easily track down the content they’re interested in listening to or reading. RTL relies on Oracle Database 11g and Oracle Real Application Clusters running on Sun Solaris to power RTL.fr, ensuring that the site’s 1.2 million monthly unique visitors have immediate access to the site, offers a high quality of service, and over time, is able to efficiently support a higher number of concurrent visitors to the site.
