Oracle Corp. last week unveiled Version 11g Release 2 of its flagship database -- about two years after the first release hit the market.

The latest version is the product of the work of some 1,500 developers, and about 15 million hours of testing, said Mark Townsend, Oracle's vice president of database product management.

The new version lets users more easily devote specific groups of server nodes to various application workloads. For example, a "front office" resource pool could be set up to support CRM implementations and Web sites, Oracle said. When a particular pool needs additional horsepower, it can draw from unassigned nodes or from node pools with lower demands.

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