hi all new to the site, im a third year student studying maintenance engineering,
im currently reviewing mainsaver cmms and oracle, is oracle a maintenance cmms or a financial based system, as i see mainsaver uses oracle to run, if any body could help i would be most gratefull, cheers

Oracle is a widely known company that develop software for database management systems (DBMS), server management and others. Recently through adquisitions have expanded to other markets. Many CMMS uses Oracle databases as the tool to manage the orders, equipment, and other multiple databases required by the CMMS. For example SAP R/3 runs using Oracle database products.
Oracle adquired JD Edwards that produces CMMS software applications.
Check:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Corporation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_database
http://www.oracle.com/index.html