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Architect Day Los Angeles - Oct 25 Hello, LA! Oracle Technology Network Architect Day comes to Los Angeles on October 25, 2012, 8am -5pm at the Sofitel Los Angeles (8555 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90048). The event includes expert sessions, panel Q&A, open roundtables, and plenty of opportunity for shop talk with your peers. The event is free, but seating is limited, so don't put off registering. Expand Your Brain with Oracle OpenWorld and JavaOne Pre-Conference...

If you're a business or technical decision maker—and that includes System Integrators, CTO, CXO, Chief Architects/Architects, Business Development Managers, Project Managers, Purchasing managers, Technical Leads, Senior Decision Makers, Practice Leads, R&D Heads, and and Development Managers/Leads—and you'll be attending JavaOne 2012 in San Francisco, you should consider telling Siri to add Java Embedded @ JavaOne to your calendar. What is Java Embedded @ JavaOne? Glad you...

Oracle OpenWorld and JavaOne certainly fall into the "Learning Experience" category. But did you know that you can ramp up your OpenWorld / JavaOne learning experience with one of Oracle University's pre-conference accelerated training sessions? These fast and furious sessions offer deep-dive technical training with real-world examples and demos you can apply right now, presented in an intense one-day format. Available sessions include: Architect and Design Robust Enterprise...

Leveraging Governance to Sustain Enterprise Architecture Efforts | Eric StephensSOA, Cloud computing, Big Data, Mobile computing, BOYD and other factors are already rearranging the enterprise IT landscape in much the same way Godzilla rearranges Tokyo. The potential for these technologies is incredible. But with each new technological innovation, "it is critical to reevaluate relevant EA governance," says Eric Stephens. "Otherwise, the architectural fragmentation that exists...

Free OTN Architect Day - Boston - Sept 12 Oracle Technology Network Architect Day is coming to Boston, September 12, 2012. The event will be held at the Boston Marriott Burlington (One Burlington Mall Road, Burlington, MA 01803), and features a full day of sessions with technical experts, along with plenty of opportunity to interact with your peers. The event is free, but seating is limited, so register now. Cloud and business transformation: this time, it's different | ZDNet"T...

The Top 10 most popular items shared via my social networks for the week of July 29 - August 4, 2012. Oracle Announces the Oracle Music Festival San Francisco 2012The roster of artists for the Oracle Music Festival at this year's Oracle Open World in San Francisco includes Macy Gray, Joss Stone, The English Beat, The 500s, American Steel, Blues Mix, Dirty Ghosts, The Dodos, Red Meat, Young Prisms, DJ Don Lynch, DJ Josh One, DJ Mei Lwun, DJ Panic City and DJ Zaq -- and that's...

Oracle Public Cloud Java Service with NetBeans in Early Access | Markus Eisele Oracle ACE Director Markus Eisele got to take the Oracle Java Cloud Service for a test drive. Now that he's had a chance to kick the tires he shares in insight in this detailed post. ADF BC Passivation/Activation and SQL Execution Tuning | Andrejus Baranovskis"There is an added cost to passivation/activation - additional SQL execution," says Oracle ACE Director Andrejus Baranovskis. "During an...

Update: Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse What's new in OEPE 12c (12.1.1.1.0)? Check it out: Eclipse Juno Support, Oracle ADF Bindings and Data Control Tools, Web Service Security Support, and WebLogic Server 12c Tools. Does that work for you? Oracle Business Intelligence EE SampleApp v207 (11.1.1.6.2 BP1) Available on OTNAs reported by Abhinav Agarwal, the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition app, "has been updated, and is now available as a downloadable Virtual...

The Top 10 most-viewed items shared via my social networks for July 2012. The first IT Architecture Certification from Oracle University: Oracle IT Architecture Release 3 Essentials The first Oracle IT Architecture certification, Oracle IT Architecture Release 3 Essentials, is now in general availability from Oracle University. The certification covers the Oracle Reference Architecture material published under the IT Strategies from Oracle library and includes Oracle...