William Hardie, Vice President of Oracle Database Product Management, recently shared that customers who are wishing to utilize the Machine Learning, Spatial, and Graph features of Oracle Database are no longer required to purchase additional licenses. This is keeping with Oracle's mission to help people see data in new ways, discover insights, and unlock endless possibilities. 

Dimitri Gielis, the founder of AOP and APEX R&D, wrote about the best and cheapest Oracle APEX hosting - Oracle Cloud Free Tier.

At Oracle OpenWorld 2019, Oracle Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison shared four recent database innovations and announced a new free version - the Always Free program.

Rob Preston, editorial director in Oracle’s Content Central organization, wrote in Forbes about why Larry Ellison, Oracle Chairman and CTO, says you need an "autonomous Cloud."

Nancy Swanson, Senior Director of Product Marketing for the Oracle Database Appliance portfolio, covered the role of DBAs in the age of Oracle Autonomous Database.

Databases are critical to organizations and represent a significant part of total IT spend. That is why you want to deploy your database on the best-optimized platform and protect your data with backups. The Cloud is transforming the way enterprises do business for the better, and backup is no different. That’s where Oracle Cloud Backup for Oracle Database comes into play.

Alan Zeichick, Director of Strategic Communications for Oracle, wrote in Forbes about Oracle’s expansion of its global data center footprint and the Cloud regions that Oracle has been opening worldwide.

On August 1, Oracle announced the general availability in all commercial regions of Oracle Functions, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's functions-as-a-service (FaaS) platform.