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SaaS Seminar at Oracle HQ

Just heard tell of a free "Software as a Service" seminar (really an "Industry Summit" in Oracle marketing parlance) at Oracle HQ's conference center on Jan....

Just heard tell of a free "Software as a Service" seminar (really an "Industry Summit" in Oracle marketing parlance) at Oracle HQ's conference center on Jan. 18. The keynoter is ZDnet blogger Phil Wainewright, an authority on SaaS use cases and success factors, with panelists including the prescient Ann Winblad of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners.The focus is not exclusively business-related though; there will be apps- and tech platform-related breakouts covering issues...

Install Oracle Database With Your Nose

Hilarious "Oracle Database Nose-job" video courtesy of Oracle ACE Director Mogens Norgaard, of OakTable fame. (Thanks to Kevin Closson for referring!)

Hilarious "Oracle Database Nose-job" video courtesy of Oracle ACE Director Mogens Norgaard, of OakTable fame. (Thanks to Kevin Closson for referring!)

New Digg-like Site for Oracle

Thanks to Oracle ACE Director Matt Topper for his pioneering ora-click site, where you can submit Oracle-related stories for Digg-like treatment. Recently...

Thanks to Oracle ACE Director Matt Topper for his pioneering ora-click site, where you can submit Oracle-related stories for Digg-like treatment. Recently Oracle ACE Director Eddie Awad and Matt worked together to integrate Eddie's OraNA news aggregator feed with ora-click such that many (if not most) posts across the Oracle blogosphere automatically become ora-click fodder. I love this!Here at Oracle we explored a similar project about a year ago, which would have used some...

Thomas Kurian's "Xmas Present" to Developers

If you were at Oracle OpenWorld you may have heard tell of Thomas Kurian's professed "Christmas present for developers," which he and other development VPs...

If you were at Oracle OpenWorld you may have heard tell of Thomas Kurian's professed "Christmas present for developers," which he and other development VPs referred to obliquely. Literally minutes before I took leave for holiday last week, this present was delivered in the form of new Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g Technology Previews, including:- Oracle JDeveloper 11g Tech Preview 3, the first release to include design time support for Oracle WebCenter as well as SOA - in...

Most Popular Technical Articles of 2007

What were OTN visitors reading in 2007? All is revealed:1. "Installing Oracle Database 10g Release 2 on Linux x86", by John Smiley (2005)Interesting that an...

What were OTN visitors reading in 2007? All is revealed:1. "Installing Oracle Database 10g Release 2 on Linux x86", by John Smiley (2005)Interesting that an unofficial install guide (from a senior engineer at a major, Seattle-based online retailer not to be named) would turn out to be so popular, for so long - especially since it covers only RHEL4 and SLES9. BTW, I have John's update for 11g in my hands right now (for publication in the early new year; will cover OEL5...

Your Podcast Xmas List

As we approach the end of the calendar year, it's time for me to get my podcast lineup in place for the next quarter or so.As you may know, OTN TechCasts now...

As we approach the end of the calendar year, it's time for me to get my podcast lineup in place for the next quarter or so.As you may know, OTN TechCasts now focus exclusively on the cutting edge of application development (including open source), which gives us a lot of latitude for interesting guests from within as well as outside of Oracle. (It's worth mentioning that this series is by far the most popular one produced by Oracle, with well over 4,000 subscribers - and more...

Oracle Blogs Facebook App

Once again, Eddie Awad comes through with a great Facebook app for the community: the Oracle Blogs app.Even easier to track the Oracle blogosphere!

Once again, Eddie Awad comes through with a great Facebook app for the community: the Oracle Blogs app.Even easier to track the Oracle blogosphere!

Google Knol: The End of Editorial?

As many of you may know, OTN runs a full-fledged publishing operation: We recruit authors, acquire manuscripts for a fee, review them on a technical value...

As many of you may know, OTN runs a full-fledged publishing operation: We recruit authors, acquire manuscripts for a fee, review them on a technical value level, and then edit/produce them for publication in HTML.This morning, I read about a new Google offering called knol, now in Beta (what else?), that will allow authors to self-publish into a massive knowledge base. In essence, Google will offer a metadata-rich template that support comments, Q&A, wiki-style edits etc.;...

New Doc: Oracle SOA Suite Best Practices

Oracle's SOA team (which includes the always enjoyable Clemens Utschig-Utschig) has just released a major piece of documentation that will be well-appreciated...

Oracle's SOA team (which includes the always enjoyable Clemens Utschig-Utschig) has just released a major piece of documentation that will be well-appreciated by architects: the Oracle SOA Suite 10.1.3x Best Practices Guide. This 272-page guide covers all Oracle SOA Suite components, including BPEL Process Manager, Oracle BAM, and Oracle ESB. In large portions it takes an FAQ approach, covering common questions that have arisen across the community (including...