Just published my podcast interview with Chris Mason, who heads up Oracle's Linux Kernel team, about his new Btrfs (pronounced "butter - eff - ess", I learned)...
Just published my podcast interview with Chris Mason, who heads up Oracle's Linux Kernel team, about his new Btrfs (pronounced "butter - eff - ess", I learned) filesystem. Nice guy. (This is a follow-up to an earlier conversation with him about Linux Kernel development at Oracle generally.)As some in the community suspected, Btrfs truly is intended as a replacement for the creaky ext3. This may raise eyebrows in some segments of the community, but few can deny the need for an...
Just published my podcast interview with Chris Mason, who heads up Oracle's Linux Kernel team, about his new Btrfs (pronounced "butter - eff - ess", I learned) filesystem. Nice guy. (This is a...
Good news for SoCal! As a former captive of Orange County (Laguna Beach HS, Class of '84) I'm happy to report the first-ever Southern California Oracle Users...
Good news for SoCal! As a former captive of Orange County (Laguna Beach HS, Class of '84) I'm happy to report the first-ever Southern California Oracle Users Conference (Tues., Aug 14, at the Westin in Long Beach) - a cooperative effort of the LA and OC Oracle Users Groups. And yeah, it's free.Ken Jacobs and Tom Kyte will both be previewing Oracle Database 11g functionality - Real Application Testing, Total Replay, etc. -- and Oracle ACE Director Bradley Brown will present...
Good news for SoCal! As a former captive of Orange County (Laguna Beach HS, Class of '84) I'm happy to report the first-ever Southern California Oracle Users Conference (Tues., Aug 14, at the Westin...
The consolidation of Oracle's two formal evangelist programs, Oracle ACE and Oracle Fusion Middleware Regional Director (into a pumped-up, two-tiered Oracle ACE...
The consolidation of Oracle's two formal evangelist programs, Oracle ACE and Oracle Fusion Middleware Regional Director (into a pumped-up, two-tiered Oracle ACE Program) was noted with astonishing speed in the blogosphere, notably by ACEs Tim Hall and Eddie Awad.This is good news for a number of reasons, but most important, it allows anyone with a track record of Oracle technical community involvement/outreach to get formal support from Oracle for their activities. PHP...
The consolidation of Oracle's two formal evangelist programs, Oracle ACE and Oracle Fusion Middleware Regional Director (into a pumped-up, two-tiered Oracle ACE Program) was noted with astonishing...
Last week the Oracle Development Center team in Beijing held a successful PHPInstallfest event at the Beijing Institute of Technology. The sponsor was Prof....
Last week the Oracle Development Center team in Beijing held a successful PHPInstallfest event at the Beijing Institute of Technology. The sponsor was Prof. ChenShuoying, vice dean of the Department of Computer Science.During this event the students were tasked to create a PHP application on Oracle Database XE; online materials can be found here for you Chinese speakers. Apparently these apps will also be judged by a panel of Oracle engineers in September, with the winner...
Last week the Oracle Development Center team in Beijing held a successful PHPInstallfest event at the Beijing Institute of Technology. The sponsor was Prof. ChenShuoying, vice dean of the Department...
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Registration for Oracle OpenWorld 2007 is open, believe it or not. My first official act after registering was to join Oracle OpenWorld Connect,the social...
Registration for Oracle OpenWorld 2007 is open, believe it or not. My first official act after registering was to join Oracle OpenWorld Connect,the social network app for OOW attendees (powered by LeverageSoftware). And I immediately set up a discussion group for OTN members.We'rejust beginning to plan activities for this year's OTN Lounge, and wouldreally like to hear what you guys want to do there this year.
Registration for Oracle OpenWorld 2007 is open, believe it or not. My first official act after registering was to join Oracle OpenWorld Connect,the social network app for OOW attendees (powered by...
Now that the "marketing" launch is complete, I want to draw your attention to a sneak preview of Arup Nanda's "Oracle Database 11g: Top New Features for DBAs...
Now that the "marketing" launch is complete, I want to draw your attention to a sneak preview of Arup Nanda's "Oracle Database 11g: Top New Features for DBAs and Developers" series. It will give you an idea of the breadth and depth of the new 11g feature set (and of the accompanying series). You can also explore 11g Technical Product Information (Tech WPs etc.) here.Arup's enthusiasm for the new change assurance functionality in the Oracle Real Application Testing option...
Now that the "marketing" launch is complete, I want to draw your attention to a sneak preview of Arup Nanda's "Oracle Database 11g: Top New Features for DBAs and Developers" series. It will give...
The AppsLab team strikes again: they've made a new search bar available for MetaLink searches. Any Oracle professional (with a support contract of course) will...
The AppsLab team strikes again: they've made a new search bar available for MetaLink searches. Any Oracle professional (with a support contract of course) will find this extremely useful.As a bonus, late-release Oracle EBS users (11+) with FF 2.0 installed can send selected text strings directly tothe search box with a right-click. So, next time you get an unfamiliar error, just right-click it to fire off a MetaLink search, with no typing required. Nice!
The AppsLab team strikes again: they've made a new search bar available for MetaLink searches. Any Oracle professional (with a support contract of course) will find this extremely useful.As a bonus,...
The discussion of business IT often veers into can't-see-the-forest-for-the-trees territory, where it's easy to forget just how cool and exciting this stuff can...
The discussion of business IT often veers into can't-see-the-forest-for-the-trees territory, where it's easy to forget just how cool and exciting this stuff can be. That's why Dispatches From the Hyperlocal Future, scifi writer Bruce Sterling's brilliant bit of not-so-speculative fiction (in the July issue of Wired), should be required reading, not just for those in IT, but especially for those on the business side of the house. Sterling's short story, presented as a...
The discussion of business IT often veers into can't-see-the-forest-for-the-trees territory, where it's easy to forget just how cool and exciting this stuff can be. That's why Dispatches From the...
