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Counting Down to the Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g Launch (Register)

By justin.kestelyn on June 2, 2009 10:40 PM

With the announcement of a formal date and place for the Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g launch (July 1 in Washington, D.C.; register here), can the downloadable bits be too far behind? Not likely. Charles Phillips and Thomas Kurian will be...

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Larry Ellison on the Future of Java: "Expanded Investment"

By justin.kestelyn on June 2, 2009 8:04 PM

For those of you who missed the JavaOne opening session this morning, which included a joint appearance by Larry Ellison and Scott McNealy, I bring some choice quotes from Ellison which speak for themselves: "(Oracle) has invested more than anybody...

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Live-Tweeting OTN Virtual Developer Day

By justin.kestelyn on May 26, 2009 3:57 PM

OTN Virtual Developer Day: Rich Enterprise Applications (~1100 registrations) is nearly upon us (starts at 8am PT on May 27), so I just want to let you know that I will be live-tweeting the keynote Webcast by Ted Farrell and...

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OTN Virtual Developer Day: A Free Online Workshop, Floating on the Cloud (#OTNVDD)

By justin.kestelyn on April 16, 2009 1:26 PM

Pretty exciting morning, eh? Well, allow me to add to it even more. Typically, the hands-on developer workshop (OTN Developer Day included) involves a heavy dosage of downloading, installation, and configuration of a dev environment as a necessary table-setter. This...

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Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse 11g Released

By justin.kestelyn on March 25, 2009 7:50 AM

The 11g release of Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse (OEPE), a certified set of free Eclipse plug-ins designed to help you develop, deploy, debug, and test applications for Oracle WebLogic Server and Oracle Database, was announced at EclipseCon yesterday and...

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This is How It Should Work

By justin.kestelyn on February 18, 2009 9:31 AM

I got word from Oracle ACE Director (Fusion Middleware) Chris Muir this morning about an interesting milestone. Chris and other members of his Oz-based outfit, SAGE Computing Services (including Oracle ACE Penny Cookson), worked closely with fellow Oracle ACE Director...

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Oracle JDeveloper 11g: The Top IDE for Ajax Dev?

By justin.kestelyn on January 22, 2009 9:55 AM

Sys-Con's AjaxWorld conference, which convened last Fall in Santa Clara, is now memorable for a couple reasons. First of all, it served as the coming-our party for Oracle's Rich Enterprise Applications (REA) initiative, which I have previously described as a...

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Rich Enterprise Apps: Front and Center at Oracle Develop Beijing

By justin.kestelyn on December 10, 2008 5:46 PM

I was not in attendance, but word got back to me that the Oracle Develop keynote in Beijing this week went well, particularly in regard to the unveiling of rea.oracle.com, a new micro-site that aggregates demos, downloads, and technical information...

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Silicon Valley Code Camp Wrapup

By justin.kestelyn on November 11, 2008 9:11 AM

I crashed Silicon Valley Code Camp last Saturday AM (at Foothill College in Los Altos), and I'm glad I did. For one, I always enjoy being on a college campus. You can smell the intellectual curiosity in the air (and...

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Enterprise Apps: Rich and Loving It

By justin.kestelyn on November 7, 2008 12:57 PM

With the publication of Oracle ACE Director Lucas Jellema's 2-part article about implementing cell highlighting in rich enterprise applications (REAs) based on JSF/ADF Faces, OTN has dived into REA evangelism with full force. The production release of JDeveloper and ADF...

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Unconf Sessions You Don't Want to Miss Today

By justin.kestelyn on September 23, 2008 7:25 AM

The Unconf is rolling along over in Moscone West; participation is tremendous this year - even in the Apps side of the house is well into the swing of things. There are a couple sessions on the sched for today...

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Oracle WebLogic Server 10g Rel 3: Good for the Goose

By justin.kestelyn on August 11, 2008 2:22 PM

Despite the fact it has been available for download from OTN since last week, Oracle WebLogic Server 10g Rel 3 (10.3) was officially announced in a social PR today. (Download link and other supporting info here; there is also a...

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From Sunrise to Daybreak: Dev2Dev and OTN Unification on Aug 1

By justin.kestelyn on July 30, 2008 7:01 AM

On midnight (or thereabouts) on July 31, the Dev2Dev and Arch2Arch portal URLs will redirect to OTN. This is a bittersweet event; on one hand, a familiar experience for a whole lot of developers will no longer be available. But...

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Oracle Fusion Middleware Strategy Webcast Replay

By justin.kestelyn on July 2, 2008 9:25 AM

For you Canadians on holiday (or anyone else who may have missed it live), the Oracle Fusion Middleware Strategy Webcast of July 1 can now be accessed on demand from this page. There are a number of podcasts listed there...

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Oracle + WebLogic Demos

By justin.kestelyn on July 1, 2008 2:49 PM

Here are some content assets that will surely make today's announcements more "real": There are several demos out there on OTN (with more to come) now, including: - Connecting JDeveloper to WebLogic Server and Deploying ADF Applications - WebLogic Server...

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Blogging the Oracle Fusion Middleware Strategy Webcast

By justin.kestelyn on July 1, 2008 8:26 AM

Update (July 2): Archived Webcast is now available from this page. Oracle President Charles Phillips has just completed his introduction of the Webcast, characterizing the BEA deal as "not just another acquisition" and explaining the reasons why: including the facts...

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BEA Welcome and Oracle's Middleware Strategy Briefing, July 1 (Webcast only)

By justin.kestelyn on June 2, 2008 12:25 PM

The official invite is out there:"Join Oracle executives Charles Phillips, President, and Thomas Kurian, Senior Vice President, Oracle Server Technologies Development, for an informative briefing that will explore how the addition of BEA products to Oracle Fusion Middleware creates a...

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JavaOne 2008 - Movie Night

By justin.kestelyn on May 3, 2008 9:13 PM

Yeah, I'll be at CommunityOne/RedmonkOne on Monday and JavaOne Tuesday/Wednesday. Much of the time I'll be at Oracle's booth (#524 - BEA right next door), so do stop by to say "ola".OTN is sponsoring a movie night, as is traditional,...

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Sunrise: The BEA and Oracle Developer Communities Come Together

By justin.kestelyn on April 30, 2008 5:50 PM

I've always had great respect for BEA's developer and architect communities (dev2dev and arch2arch, respectively). For that reason, the closure of the BEA acquisition is really good news not only for OTN, but also for members of those communities.WebLogic and...

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Thomas Kurian's "Xmas Present" to Developers

By justin.kestelyn on December 31, 2007 11:48 AM

If you were at Oracle OpenWorld you may have heard tell of Thomas Kurian's professed "Christmas present for developers," which he and other development VPs referred to obliquely. Literally minutes before I took leave for holiday last week, this present...

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