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Rozwat Says the "11g" Word

Chuck Rozwat's keynote this AM comprised mostly a "rearview" of significant releases from the Server Technologies division in the last year - Oracle Content...

Chuck Rozwat's keynote this AM comprised mostly a "rearview" of significant releases from the Server Technologies division in the last year - Oracle Content Database, Oracle SES, Oracle Database Vault - as well as an overview of pre-existing technologies that bring other "exotic" datatypes into the database, such as interMedia, Spatial, and Mapper. Interestingly, this appeared to be largely pretext for discussing the "growing" (forgive the pun) importance of scalability,...

Phillips Keynote/Monday Announcements for Java Coders

You will almost certainly read many "old media" accounts of Charles Phillips' Oracle OpenWorld keynote last evening. (Download a podcast containing a keynote...

You will almost certainly read many "old media" accounts of Charles Phillips' Oracle OpenWorld keynote last evening. (Download a podcast containing a keynote cutdown here.) Most of these accounts will characterize it as an explanation of Oracle "acquisition" strategy; more accurately, it was a explanation of Oracle's "integration" strategy.To summarize, Oracle sort of considers the rest of the industry as a "farm team" for the Oracle stack. In other words, when Oracle...

The First OpenWorld Pix

The eagle has landed and snapped some photos:The throngs. (Hey, it's Sunday morning here.)Where'd Howard St. go?All work and no play makes Jack a dull...

The eagle has landed and snapped some photos:The throngs. (Hey, it's Sunday morning here.)Where'd Howard St. go?All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.Somebody got a great parking space!The OTN Lounge at Moscone West awaits. And we're not located in the loading bay this year.

A Swarm of Oracle OpenWorld Blogs

As always, I will be blogging on a daily basis from Oracle OpenWorld (LOTS to report), as well as recording and publishing daily podcasts.And as is the...

As always, I will be blogging on a daily basis from Oracle OpenWorld (LOTS to report), as well as recording and publishing daily podcasts.And as is the tradition, I will post any relevant/interesting blog entries that you send me here; send entries to blogs_us@oracle.com (or post them in comments here).Wait 'til you guys see the tent over Howard St.!

The Muench Files

Steve Muench, you rock!In the last few months, Steve has documented an amazing list of "not yet documented" sample applications (in his "Dive into BC4J and ADF"...

Steve Muench, you rock!In the last few months, Steve has documented an amazing list of "not yet documented" sample applications (in his "Dive into BC4J and ADF" blog) that illustrate use cases and best practices for the Oracle JDeveloper+Oracle ADF combination. Steve has also made several screencasts available that take you through more tactical processes, step by step. (This is how Oracle ACEs are made!)I hope to make better use of the aforementioned screencasting technology...

The "OTN, Special Edition" Project

In my recent post "The Semantic Web Runs on Oracle," about the new virtual press room that offers a "faceted" view of pressroom content on Oracle.com, I...

In my recent post "The Semantic Web Runs on Oracle," about the new virtual press room that offers a "faceted" view of pressroom content on Oracle.com, I mentioned the fact that a another project is underway to provide similar capabilities for OTN content: We call it OTN, Special Edition. In this post, I want to bring you up to speed.Our friends at Siderean Software, our partners in this project, have already absorbed business requirements that we provided a few months ago....

Build Your Own Oracle RAC Cluster on Linux - Again

Oracle ACE Jeff Hunter's "Build Your Own Oracle RAC Cluster on Linux and FieWire" is easily one of the most influential pieces of content ever published by OTN,...

Oracle ACE Jeff Hunter's "Build Your Own Oracle RAC Cluster on Linux and FieWire" is easily one of the most influential pieces of content ever published by OTN, if not by Oracle itself. I personally have received countless emails from users about its value for evaluating RAC (or for just playing around). (Amazingly,  customers continue to open TARs against this content despite the bright-red "not supported" disclaimer on every page.)The beauty of this document is that it's...

Are We Wasting Our Time?

This morning I attended a breakfast seminar with Robert Scoble (now of social media company PodTech) keynoting on the impact of social media (blogs, podcasts,...

This morning I attended a breakfast seminar with Robert Scoble (now of social media company PodTech) keynoting on the impact of social media (blogs, podcasts, videocasts) on corporate marketing/communications. I didn't hear anything extraordinarily new, but he did relay some interesting anecdotes about how even a single grass-roots "influencer" can be more influential than an "A-lister" like himself. Scoble asks the rhetorical question: Would you rather be mentioned by Walt...

"Meet the Experts" at OOW

The "Meet the Experts" schedule for the OTN Lounges at OOW is now available here. Here's a sampler plate: Monday - Tom Kyte, Tim Hall (Oracle ACE of the Year),...

The "Meet the Experts" schedule for the OTN Lounges at OOW is now available here. Here's a sampler plate: Monday - Tom Kyte, Tim Hall (Oracle ACE of the Year), Dave Shaffer/Harish Gaur/Markus Zirn (Oracle BPEL Team), Doug Clarke/Debu Panda (EJB3 experts)Tuesday - Steven Feuerstein, Chris Schalk, Duncan Mills, Michael McLaughlin, Greg Marsden, Mary Ann Davidson, Peter Koletzke, Ed Whalen, Arup NandaWednesday - Alex Keh/Christian Shay (.NET Team), Chris Jones (PHP team),...