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OTN TechCast: Linux Engineering Update, Part 2 - Virtualizing the Oracle Stack

By justin.kestelyn on May 1, 2009 8:59 PM

OK, so my second video with Wim snuck out; here it is: BTW someone has asked, "Why are you always running out of time? These can be any length" or something to that effect. The answer is: because data tells...

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OTN TechCast Video: Linux Engineering Update from Wim Coekaerts

By justin.kestelyn on May 1, 2009 4:11 PM

So I was able to sit down with Wim Coekaerts briefly this week for a video chat (via OTN TechCast) about Enterprise Linux - very briefly, I'm afraid, because completeness and detail are NOT among the benefits of Web video....

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Oracle Unbreakable Linux Adoption Survey: Scratching the Surface

By justin.kestelyn on March 3, 2009 4:33 PM

A recent post about Oracle Unbreakable Linux adoption ("Oracle's Unbreakable Linux not denting Red Hat"), certainly a rainmaker on Twitter, was brought to mind while I was authoring my previous post about awareness of Oracle Unbreakable Linux. There's a lot...

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Oracle Enterprise Linux and Oracle VM Awareness: It's a Question of SCALE

By justin.kestelyn on March 3, 2009 10:51 AM

Last month, at the Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) in L.A., OTN's Chief Installfest Officer Todd Trichler was present on the exhibitor floor to sling free software (Oracle Enterprise Linux and Oracle VM), as he is wont to do. Todd...

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LinuxWorld 2008: "It's a Feature"

By justin.kestelyn on August 6, 2008 12:40 PM

I just returned from Moscone Center, having popped into LinuxWorld to catch the joint Oracle keynote this AM from CIO Mark Sunday and Chief Corp Architect Edward Screven. I've never seen Mark speak before, which is unusual in itself; Oracle...

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Most Popular Technical Articles of 2007

By justin.kestelyn on December 19, 2007 1:29 PM

What were OTN visitors reading in 2007? All is revealed:1. "Installing Oracle Database 10g Release 2 on Linux x86", by John Smiley (2005)Interesting that an unofficial install guide (from a senior engineer at a major, Seattle-based online retailer not to...

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Download Oracle VM / Podcast with Oracle VM Architect Kurt Hackel

By justin.kestelyn on November 14, 2007 3:26 PM

You can do that from here now (and read the doc). Guest templates for Oracle and Linux TBD soon.I also recorded an awesome podcast with Kurt Hackel, Oracle VM's primary architect, at the OTN Lounge....

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Unbreakable Linux: Someone Gets It Right

By justin.kestelyn on October 27, 2007 9:20 AM

Finally, someone (Charles Babcock of InformationWeek) evidences a rather sophisticated understanding of Oracle Unbreakable Linux support - most likely because he actually spoke with Wim Coekaerts, Oracle's steward of this program, instead of winging it....

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Video: Oracle Linux Engineering Update (from LinuxWorld)

By justin.kestelyn on September 20, 2007 4:12 PM

Long time in the making, but we finally externed a video capture from the "Oracle on Linux Experience" tech session at LinuxWorld this summer. I don't think I'll get into film school with this, but you'll get the idea. Talk...

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LinuxWorld Installfest/Kernel Hacker Sightings

By justin.kestelyn on August 9, 2007 1:34 PM

Another LinuxWorld nearly in the books. Odd, IBM and Red Hat were not there (for second year in a row I think, in Red Hat's case at least). IMO this show, perhaps more dramatically than any other, LW has left...

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Chris Mason Speaks on Btrfs

By justin.kestelyn on July 26, 2007 6:44 PM

Just published my podcast interview with Chris Mason, who heads up Oracle's Linux Kernel team, about his new Btrfs (pronounced "butter - eff - ess", I learned) filesystem. Nice guy. (This is a follow-up to an earlier conversation with him...

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Oracle+OSS Cliff Notes

By blogsadmin on June 15, 2007 10:23 AM

Oracle Fusion Middleware evangelist Omar Tazi, who focuses on the OSS area, recently gave a presentation to an Oracle users group that is well summarized by BMC Software blogger William Hurley here.This is one of the rare occasions where most...

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Wim Coekaerts on Unbreakable Linux

By blogsadmin on February 28, 2007 10:41 AM

The amount of FUD out there re: Oracle Unbreakable Linux is truly remarkable - as one unknown wit once remarked, "You are entitled to your own opinion, but not to your own facts."Wim Coekaerts, Oracle's VP of Linux Engineering, has...

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The Oracle Linux Kernel Team Opens Up

By justin.kestelyn on February 2, 2007 12:09 PM

We just published a podcast interview with Zach Brown, the Oracle Linux Kernel Team member working on RDS and AIO. The interview previously podcasted interview with his colleague Chris Mason was a huge hit - it was the second most...

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All Over but the Shouting

By blogsadmin on October 27, 2006 11:16 AM

OK, so Oracle OpenWorld 2006 is a wrap.IMO, this was clearly a "consolidation" show. At no point did I sense any confusion or discomfort among attendees, whereas last year -- on the heels of the PSFT acquisition's close -- these...

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Oracle Announces Enterprise-Class Support for Linux

By blogsadmin on October 25, 2006 4:03 PM

Oracle has just announced enterprise-class support for Linux.Everything you need to know is here. And here is my view of Larry making the announcement:...sorry, didn't get a good shot of the penguins on stage (not kidding)....

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Build Your Own Oracle RAC Cluster on Linux - Again

By blogsadmin on October 3, 2006 6:50 PM

Oracle ACE Jeff Hunter's "Build Your Own Oracle RAC Cluster on Linux and FieWire" is easily one of the most influential pieces of content ever published by OTN, if not by Oracle itself. I personally have received countless emails from...

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Ubuntu Billboard for Oracle employees?

By blogsadmin on August 3, 2006 3:58 PM

What is apparently the world's first-known Ubuntu billboard has popped up near the Ralston St. exit off Highway 101 in Belmont, CA -- the exit one takes to get to Oracle HQ, actually. (Tagline: "Linux [for Servers] and Human Beings")Hmmm...what...

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XE for Debian

By justin.kestelyn on March 7, 2006 6:11 PM

Hey, did you know that Oracle Database XE is now available for Debian?See Todd Trichler's LW Mexico Installfest doc on this subject here; includes useful scripts etc. (Use at your own risk!)...

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