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Oracle is currently killing off their web sites, yanking lots of useful content off the web with little or no warning. Both the Oracle Wiki and usableapps.oracle.com  died this week, and all Oracle can offer by way of explanation is vague noises about maybe something else will come later.

The death of the Oracle Wiki without a replacement further detracts from Oracle’s already not too high standing in the Enterprise 2.0 space. Oracle is proudly claiming to use their own databases and applications, but apparently don’t feel that Oracle WebCenter is up to the task of running their wiki.

Even more mysterious is that UsableApps was taken down. Given the fact that usability is the KEY selling point of Fusion Applications, it’s baffling that the site that showcased Oracle’s work in usability and giving credence to Oracle’s claims of superior usability in Fusion Apps has vanished.

This is very strange behavior for a company that used to call itself “the information company” - but maybe the lawyers that run Oracle have decided it’s safer to replace all of Oracles websites with safe harbor statements?

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Do you remember that when WebCenter was lauched, the team started a blog? I recently revisited it and noticed that it hadn’t been updated in months. I posted a comment asking if we could expect anything to happen on this blog. Naturally, my comment didn’t appear on the blog right away, but started it’s way through the Oracle content management workflow - they are apparently careful about how much user-generated content they want.

I just looked at the blog again - well, I tried to. But now it’s gone…

It sort of makes you wonder how much commitment there is to Web 2.0 internally in Oracle, doesn’t it? I’m hoping the Oracle Wiki won’t suffer the same fate. So please, everyone, head over to the Oracle Wiki, register and update something…

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