I recently wrote a Market Milestone report on Oracle's launch of Autonomous Transaction Processing, the latest in a string of Autonomous Database announcements made by Oracle following announcements in Autonomous Data Warehousing and the initial announcement of the Autonomous Database late last year. This string of announcements by Oracle takes advantage of Oracle's investments in infrastructure, distributed hardware, data protection and security and index optimization to create a new set of database services that seek to automate basic support and optimization capabilities. These announcements matter because, as transactional and data-centric business models continue to proliferate, both startups and enterprises should...
