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Oracle acquires TimesTen: a rational move but not without some challenges

Oracle today announced the acquisition of privately-held, 90-person TimesTen, Inc for an undisclosed sum. TimesTen provides a memory-based, relational database targeted at mission-critical, (pseudo-) real-time applications, particularly in telecoms (fixed and mobile) and financial services, especially capital markets. TimesTen, with its TimesTen/Cache already provides out-of-the-box integration with the Oracle database, enabling synchronisation between the Oracle [...]