Chris Conrath

SAN FRANCISCO - Oracle Corp. is planning a major upgrade of its application server that adds integration components to enable enterprises to use the product as a platform for application-to-application, business-to-business and Web services integration, the company said during its recent OpenWorld conference.

On the last day of OracleWorld, Oracle Corp. CEO Larry Ellison gave a solutions-based keynote via satellite from Auckland, New Zealand, where he is trying to win the Louis Vuitton Cup yacht race.

The recent attack on all 13 domain name root servers, along with a recently released paper, has intensified the debate as to whether it is theoretically possible to completely shut down the Internet. The DNS attack successfully shut down seven of the servers for approximately an hour at the end of October.

The Internet and e-mail, for all they have done for corporate growth, have their weak spots. Employees, under the guise of anonymity and spurred on by data

SAN FRANCISCO

For all the buzz they have been generating for the past few years, Web services have not really lived up to the hype. In fact Andrew Bartels doesn

Microsoft Corp.

Oracle Corp. on Tuesday unveiled a planned major upgrade of its application server that adds integration components to enable enterprises to use the product as a platform for application-to-application, business-to-business, and Web services integration.