Oracle at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco on Monday announced availability of Oracle SOA Suite 10g Release 3, featuring governance capabilities. The suite has an integrated, browser-based console to administer policies across multiple distributed enforcement points in Oracle and non-Oracle middleware. Other features include the ability to identify and publish services to a registry and facilitie Oracle at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco on Monday announced availability of Oracle SOA Suite 10g Release 3, featuring governance capabilities.The suite has an integrated, browser-based console to administer policies across multiple distributed enforcement points in Oracle and non-Oracle middleware. Other features include the ability to identify and publish services to a registry and facilities to view services securely. Centralized management of service-level agreements also is featured. Governance capabilities in Release 3 include an enhanced registry and manager for Web services. A component of the Oracle Fusion Middleware platform, the suite also features a one-click install, an enterprise service bus, expanded workflow and enhanced Web services security and interoperability. BPEL (Business Process Execution Language for Web Services) functionality includes expanded workflow capabilities that provide a simplified workflow designer and new algorithms for complex task routing and escalation.The suite is priced at $50,000 per CPU with Oracle Application Server Enterprise Edition and $65,000 per CPU for non-Oracle application servers.Also at the show, Oracle and Adobe announced a collaboration to help developers build enterprise-level Web 2.0 applications. These applications will be able to include animations, charts and graphs in Adobe Flash combined with other AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) content in a Java-based portal such as Oracle Portal. Development of enterprise mashups featuring animated graphs and visualizations is a goal of the arrangement. Oracle also unveiled Oracle Developer Depot, a free developer productivity tool that simplifies how Java developers find and provision Java applications for learning or prototyping purposes. The product runs with Oracle Application Server 10g. Web 2.0 technologies such as AJAX, the Spring 2.0 Java framework and RSS are leveraged to boost code reuse and simplify development. The company at the conference announced Oracle Fusion Middleware Developer Challenge, designed to award achievements in categories including: best SOA-based application or service, best Web 2.0/AJAX-based user interface or mashup and best application demonstrating the combined use of Oracle and open source software. Developers in the United States and Canada can submit entries between now and Dec. 31, 2006. Oracle technologists will judge the entries, with the grand prize winner receiving a 37-inch high-definition television. Two runners-up receive a Slingbox Pro streaming device. Rules can be found here. Technology Industry