Recent Posts by James Van Heel

The last time Steven covered the iPhone was November 2008, which is roughly 1948 in Internet time. Heck, the App Store had less than 9,000 apps in it back then and it's now just around 40,000 apps. Oracle has been enabling our enterprise solutions for that platform and many of them impact EBS administrators, so we'll summarize them here. E-Business Suite Specific Applications Steven noted that Oracle Business Approvals for Managers is now Available for the iPhone. That really...

You call 411 and ask for the phone number of the local Joe's Pizza. You ask your fancy-pants hotel concierge to book you tickets to the revival of, "Learn Oracle in 21 Days - The Musical."  You ask the E-Business Suite,  "How many Vision Laptops are in inventory organization M1?"  What's going on here?  The World At Your Service Web Services are key to the flexible infrastructure that has the potential to lower your costs of ownership and let your systems adjust to changes more...

 So, it's all about J2EE, right? Well, it will be - and we're all excited by the move to the Fusion Applications platform, and its early form, Oracle Applications Framework. But we still live in a world with Oracle Forms, and we will continue to do so for  Release 12. Importantly, you can stay on these releases as long as they provide you business value, so you can move to Fusion Applications on your timeframe, not ours. (Close your eyes and say 'Applications Unlimited' . Feels...