orignally appeared on my blog in July 2009
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OK So the buzz around the Oracle World is that Oracle 11g R2 is out albiet for Linux only.
Some of the features to look out for are ASM based Cluster File system, File Watcher for files , Compression features etc, In memory caching . There will be lots of posts in the next coming days and week and Oracle Openworld will have lots of info and Hands on on the new stuff.
The Marketing Data and the Linux Download can be accessed via the link below
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/oracle11g/index.html