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Get Busy on Berkeley DB Discussion Forums

OTN Discussion Forums for various Berkeley DB editions are now online and available to OTN members. Berkeley DB users, get on board!This signals a new...

OTN Discussion Forums for various Berkeley DB editions are now online and available to OTN members. Berkeley DB users, get on board!This signals a new intersection between two massive, richly diverse, and longstanding communities. I think it will interesting to see how the Berkeley DB community, which previously relied on listserv for its interactions, will respond, and equally interesting to note how Oracle geeks will size up BDB.

Doc Search is Live

SES doc search is now live! Give it a shot.Look for podcasts in the next week or two about the install/deployment process.(BTW, I've seen at least one cynical...

SES doc search is now live! Give it a shot.Look for podcasts in the next week or two about the install/deployment process.(BTW, I've seen at least one cynical comment in the blogosphere about the fact that doc is still excluded from external search via robots.txt. This is true, but only because we are doing load testing before opening up doc to search by the Google masses. These exclusions will be removed when that testing is complete.)

New OOW Event: Oracle Develop

The Tech Sessions for Oracle Develop, the new, three-day hands-on event at OOW this year (Oct. 22-25), are now available for review. This is a great opportunity...

The Tech Sessions for Oracle Develop, the new, three-day hands-on event at OOW this year (Oct. 22-25), are now available for review. This is a great opportunity to roll up your sleeves and dive into Java/SOA, PHP, XML/XQuery, embedded DB development w/Berkeley DB, RAC management, HA, etc. Register by Aug 18 and you'll save some bucks.In the next couple weeks I'll also provide some details about OTN's activities this year, including OTN Night (new swanky venue!), "Meet the...

Oracle ACEs Rule

Man, there are some happy Oracle ACEs outthere.Let's start with Andrew Clarke, one of the"original" ACEs, who blogged about "OnBecoming an ACE" recently. As...

Man, there are some happy Oracle ACEs outthere.Let's start with Andrew Clarke, one of the"original" ACEs, who blogged about "OnBecoming an ACE" recently. As Andrew remarks, the perks maynot be "that great," but the community recognition is "priceless".(Personally, I consider the Oracle ACE fleece pullover to be among themost remarkable pieces of corporate swag ever foisted upon themasses.)Lewis Cunningham - who has a new techarticle about using SQL Developer reporting...

Setting Documentation Free

Last week we removed the authentication requirement from Oracle documentation libraries accessible via OTN. Thus OTN membership is no longer required for...

Last week we removed the authentication requirement from Oracle documentation libraries accessible via OTN. Thus OTN membership is no longer required for accessing doc!As part and parcel of this change, Googlebot and other external crawlers will soon have access (after some testing) to Oracle doc for the very first time, extending public access to that doc across the known universe. And naturally, a standalone "Documentation" search will shortly be possible in SES:It's a good...

SAP Redesigns BART

Hilarious WSJ article from Lee Gomes today. Apparently SAP has established a "Design Services Team" at Labs for the purpose of creating an appreciation for...

Hilarious WSJ article from Lee Gomes today. Apparently SAP has established a "Design Services Team" at Labs for the purpose of creating an appreciation for customer-centered UI design at the grass roots among its developers. Why? In the words of team member Narayan Nayar, SAP products are "inhumane." (Oh, the inhumanity!)Last week this team participated in a workshop in which developers were sent to BART stations (Bay Area Rapid Transit, for you non-Bay Areans) to interview...

Moving Toward OXN

I've taken up some responsibilities for the Oracle PartnerNetwork web site in addition to my regular OTN duties. What does that mean? Ideally, that Oracle...

I've taken up some responsibilities for the Oracle PartnerNetwork web site in addition to my regular OTN duties. What does that mean? Ideally, that Oracle partners will get a special tour of the copious development resources available to them on OTN, and that developers who are OTN "actives" (a couple million of them, by our count) will have better exposure to exclusive content opportunities through partner programs and initiatives.For example, Oracle's SOA Initiative offers...

Preliminary Financial Results Out

Here's a quote from the WSJ, for those of you without access to it, regarding Oracle's Q4FY06 forecast:"Bruce Richardson, an analyst at AMR Research, called...

Here's a quote from the WSJ, for those of you without access to it, regarding Oracle's Q4FY06 forecast:"Bruce Richardson, an analyst at AMR Research, called thepreannouncement 'unbelievable.' He said he expects it to 'put a lot ofpressure' on SAP AG, Oracle's No. 1 rival."Read the numbers for yourself.

Grass-Roots Demos

We're seeing a few Oracle ACEs begin to take advantage of Qarbon's ViewletCam tool, which allows you to capture full-motion swf demos and then add an audio...

We're seeing a few Oracle ACEs begin to take advantage of Qarbon's ViewletCam tool, which allows you to capture full-motion swf demos and then add an audio track on top of it. The end result is a sort of hybrid between a demo and a blog entry -- or I guess you could call it a targeted, "grass-roots" demo.This is an awesome tool (and only about $150) that we're recommending to the rest of the OTN community. (Tom Kyte recently blogged about this in fact -- check out the...