OTN TechBlog

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.

Has anyone else been tracking the forthcoming online service, GrandCentral.com?

This service, now in public beta, allows you to create a single, unified telephone number for life at which contacts can reach you, regardless of the device in close proximity - that is, all your lines ring at once. And it's free.

For example, if you want to be *really* reachable, you could unite your existing home POTS, mobile, and work numbers under a single set of GrandCentral.com digits. It has a range of other bells and whistles, too.

Next Tuesday (March 20) at 11am PT, Siderean CTO Bradley Allen and I will be co-presenting in a KMWorld case-study Webinar about "relational navigation", Semantic Web best practices, and the origins/backstory of OTN Semantic Web.

I understand that there are already well over 400 registrants, but the more the better! Register here.

This AM Oracle announced its acquisition of Tangosol, whose Coherence technology provides in-memory infrastructure (or a data grid, as Tangosol calls it) for real-time analytics and high-performance applications that demand Extreme Transaction Processing (XTP) - for real-time monitoring and globally distributed, high-volume financial transaction processing, for example.

As I blog at this moment, Oracle Fusion Middleware SVP Thomas Kurian is explaining Oracle's roadmap for enabling XTP for Fusion Middleware customers in his TSS Symposium keynote in Las Vegas. If TSS makes this keynote available online, I'll be sure to provide a URL.

Update: no such archive appears to be available, but look for Thomas' keynote at JavaOne (which will in large portion involve XTP). Also, see Tangosol CEO Cameron Purdy's comments in this TSS.com thread.

Duncan Mills tells me that the folks at EMEA Oracle Usergroup Council (EOUC) have been kind enough to offer OTN members a 10% registration discount for the EOUC 07 conference (May 3-4, in Amsterdam). Register at www.eouc.eu using discount code 848734121875.

In addition to several Oracle speakers, the legendary Chris Date will be presenting on "The Closed World Assumption" (a high-five for anyone who attends and reports on the substance of this session)!

Today OTN deployed a series of new Grid Computing discussion forums; topics include Oracle RAC, Clusterware, ASM, and installation of all of the above.

These forums are literally "virginal" territory right now, so login and stake your claim as an expert today.