
CRN reports that Oracle Collaboration Suite Release 2 was released without instant messaging, but that realtime feature will be delivered in yet another upgrade during the first half of 2004. Like the first release, the upgrade allows users to use the Microsoft Outlook client to the collaboration services. It offers a new flashback recovery that allows Outlook users to recover deleted messages without an administrator. It also features enhanced resource scheduling and a standard-based SyncML server for Oracle Calendar that supports mobile devices.