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 .

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