Here is the oracle press release on UOA,  Press Release .

Oracle has decades of experience in managing huge volumes of data efficiently and securely. Oracle Universal Online Archive takes that deep understanding and brings it to bear on actively archiving multiple types of unstructured content and particularly e-mail. The result is a uniquely flexible archiving platform that helps lower IT costs, simplify the integration of security and records management policies into the archiving process, and improve end user access to current and archived information.” said Frank Radichel, vice president, Software Development, Oracle.

According to oracle, expected pricing UOA ;

• Oracle Universal Online Archive is expected to be available in 2008. The expected price is $20 per named user plus or $75,000 per CPU.
• Oracle E-mail Archive Service is expected to be available in 2008. The expected price is $50 per named user plus or $40,000 per CPU.

More details can be found at ,  Press Release .

I have been recently asked to explore about “Oracle Universal Online Archive” solution. What Oracle says about UOA? Below is the excerpt from Oracle.

Oracle Universal Online Archive (UOA) is the industry’s most comprehensive, secure, and cost-effective on site electronic archive. UOA is an archiving platform that supports both out-of-the-box archiving services and open, customizable integration facilities that can manage a broad range of enterprise content such as emails, documents, and images from different content sources. With unmatched scalability and performance, UOA can meet the complete electronic archiving needs of the largest enterprise. UOA also provides “security in depth,” leveraging robust compliance, security, and disaster recovery capabilities of Oracle Enterprise Content Management, Database, and Middleware technologies. And UOA helps control costs by reducing demands on your existing production servers and dramatically lowering storage requirements—while maintaining easy and transparent user access to user archived data.

More at http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/content-management/uoa/index.html

Recently, I found the tutorials for Oracle Express editon.  Very good piece of articles for begginers available in oracle site. Here is the link http://st-curriculum.oracle.com/tutorial/DBXETutorial/index.htm

Oracle Database 10g Express Edition (Oracle Database XE) is an entry-level, small-footprint database based on the Oracle Database 10g Release 2 code base that’s free to develop, deploy, and distribute; fast to download; and simple to administer.  You can download it here; Oracle Database XE