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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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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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Press Release 2.0

By justin.kestelyn on March 24, 2008 5:59 PM

It's worth mentioning as a companion to the fact that Oracle has made XQilla XQuery code available under the Apache 2.0 License, that the press release used to announce this news is a revelation.No bluster, no fluff, no clear-as-mud language ...

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Gifted: OCI8 1.3.0 Extension Beta

By justin.kestelyn on October 9, 2007 12:03 PM

Good news for PHP propeller heads everywhere: a Beta of the OCI8 1.3.0 extension, which supports the Database Resident Connection Pooling feature in Oracle Database 11g, is now available (under the open-source PHP License) in the PECL repository. (You...

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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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Oracle Open Sources TopLink

By justin.kestelyn on March 6, 2007 12:49 PM

Oracle has just announced from EclipseCon that it is donating the TopLink O/R persistence framework to the OSS community. This is a fairly substantial contribution of code.See the Eclipse Tooling page at oss.oracle.com here.There's a press release here....

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Oracle+FOSS is the Real Deal

By justin.kestelyn on October 23, 2006 7:38 PM

Following the keynote below saw an interesting panel this AM on the topic of Oracle + FOSS (free and open source) software - Ken Jacobs (who directly manages the InnoDB team), Chris Jones from the scripting/PHP team, Mike Olson (former...

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Oracle Acquires Sleepycat

By justin.kestelyn on February 14, 2006 9:58 AM

Oracle has acquired Sleepycat Software, makers of the open-source BerkeleyDB embeddable database engine. As you may know, BerkeleyDB is essentially a library to which applications can make function calls, vs. issuing SQL queries to a standalone database server. Java and...

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Shameless Plug

By justin.kestelyn on February 9, 2006 12:19 PM

Oracle Fusion Middleware is now a certified platform for the SourceLabs "SASH" stack, which includes Apache Struts, Apache Axis, the Spring Framework, and Hibernate. Talk about "hot-pluggable"!SourceLabs will provide subscription-based support for developers who download the stack via OTN....

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