Press Release Oracle Therapeutic Learning System Records Effectiveness of COVID-19 Drugs Redwood Shores, Calif.—Apr 1, 2020 For the last several weeks, Oracle has been actively engaged in the ongoing fight against COVID-19. Our primary goal has been to develop and deploy a series of cloud applications that will gather the data necessary to enable health professionals to answer one critical question: What drugs are effective in treating or preventing the COVID-19 virus? Clinical Trials System The first systems we implemented in pursuit of this goal were clinical trials. Oracle has long been one of the world’s leading suppliers of clinical trial systems. Over the years,...

Blog Oracle Offers Free HR Tool to Help Customers Keep Employees Safe By Gretchen Alarcon, Oracle—Mar 31, 2020 As we continue to face increasing concerns about COVID-19, many organizations and HR professionals are facing new and unprecedented challenges. In an effort to help, we are providing free access to our Workforce Health and Safety solution to current Oracle Human Capital Management Cloud customers. This module will help our customers manage key workplace health and safety issues and answer critical response questions, including: Who in my organization has been exposed to the virus? Have the communal areas of the buildings been appropriately cleaned? Do we...

Blog Oracle Ramps Up Free Online Learning and Certifications for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Oracle Autonomous Database By Raghu Viswanathan, Vice President of Education Products and Delivery, Oracle University—Mar 30, 2020 I’m happy to announce that Oracle is offering free access to online learning content and certifications for a broad array of users for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Oracle Autonomous Database. This program kicks off on Monday, March 30, 2020, and will be available until May 15, 2020. Starting now, any user, including developers, technical professionals, architects, students and professors, will have quick and easy access to more than 50 hours of online...

Press Release Oracle Continues to Invest in Canada; Opens Second Canadian Cloud Region in Montreal Unique dual region strategy helps organizations with disaster recovery and compliance requirements Montreal—Mar 30, 2020 To support growing customer demand for enterprise cloud services in Canada, Oracle today announced a new Gen 2 Cloud region in Montreal. This follows the launch of its Toronto Cloud region last year, making Canada Oracle’s latest country offering dual cloud regions. The opening is part of Oracle’s global plans to operate 36 Generation 2 Cloud regions by the end of 2020. Now, Canadian customers and partners will have access to all Oracle...

Press Release Oracle Announces Java 14 Oracle JDK 14 represents more than two years of on-time six-month feature releases, bringing innovation and predictability to developers Oracle JDK 14 adds new features to improve developer productivity, including Java language support for switch expressions, new APIs for continuous monitoring of JDK Flight Recorder data, and extended availability of the low-latency Z Garbage Collector to macOS and Windows This new release includes three preview features: Pattern Matching for instanceof (JEP 305), Records (JEP 359) and Text Blocks (JEP 368) Redwood Shores, Calif.—Mar 17, 2020...