OTN TechBlog

The latest all-time stats are out, hot off the press:

1.		Oracle E-Business Suite Technology
2.		Shay Shmeltzer's Weblog
3.		Antony Reynolds' Blog
4.		Oracle BI Publisher Blog
5.		blogs.oracle.com
6.		Didier's Blog
7.		OTN TechBlog
8.		Alejandro Vargas' Blog
9.		Talking Identity
10.		JHeadstart Blog

Goodness, I am seriously lagging here; better get to work! My congrats to these bloggers. Impressive that four of them manage to be even more popular than the aggregator homepage.

The stats are for blogs.oracle.com only, but of course I have no access to stats from other platforms. Hence the benefit of using blogs.oracle.com if you're an employee.

Update: Tim Dexter has rightfully pointed out that Steven Chan is closing in on 10 million hits. Wow!

Had a visit yesterday with Paul Vallee of Pythian Group, a Canada-based outsource for DBA operations of various kinds.

Paul has some interesting perspectives as he works with clients with varying DBA requirements (including platform). He also brought me a great poster: "The Family Tree of Ottawa-Gatineau High Tech Companies", which is a surprisingly leafy tree - think Corel, Databeacon, Liquid Computing - all companies that have some lineage back to U. of Waterloo (AI hotspot in the 80s), Cognos, Northern Electric, etc.

Thanks Paul!

Some members of the Oracle Apps User Experience team have put a nice new blog together. If the first entry is any indication of what we can look forward to, I'm jazzed....