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Secure Enterprise Search Uncovered

In case you missed this Larry Ellison announced Oracle Secure Enterprise Search at OpenWorld Tokyo last night.There are technical/business white papers, a data...

In case you missed this Larry Ellison announced Oracle Secure Enterprise Search at OpenWorld Tokyo last night.There are technical/business white papers, a data sheet and a demo available at the indicated web site, but the most important things to know are:Search accuracy and user experience is comparable to that of Google. (I can personally attest to this as we are in the midst of UAT for future deployment on OTN/Oracle.com. SES rocks.) Content can be secured at a source or...

XE is Production

Oracle Database XE has just gone production. In honor of this occasion, we are debuting a new download button:Feel free to grab it and use in your own...

Oracle Database XE has just gone production. In honor of this occasion, we are debuting a new download button:Feel free to grab it and use in your own blog.Remember, you can join a private discussion after install hosted by theillustrious Tom Kyte. (Look for the "Register" link on the Homepage.)Last I checked there were nearly 900 threads in there, many containinggreat real-world insights about using XE.

SQL Developer Podcast

My colleague Tom Haunert has just completed a podcast interview with Kris Rice, from the SQL Developer (formerly Project Raptor) development team. We plan to...

My colleague Tom Haunert has just completed a podcast interview with Kris Rice, from the SQL Developer (formerly Project Raptor) development team. We plan to release the interview at production, which is approaching fairly quickly.Among other things Kris describes how SQL Developer approaches basic development tasks tasks via GUI vs. traditional SQL*Plus command line, reporting, and of course, how SQL Developer stacks up against third-party tools. (Main difference: SQL...

New Oracle Data Mining Blog

Marcos Campos, a dev manager for Oracle Data Mining and Analytics, has launched a great new blog on that subject. As an old AI/business intelligence/analytics...

Marcos Campos, a dev manager for Oracle Data Mining and Analytics, has launched a great new blog on that subject. As an old AI/business intelligence/analytics guy I love to see this stuff.Hasn't been mentioned much but one of the crown jewels of the Siebel acquisition is surely Siebel Analytics, which is based on the innovative nQuire technology Siebel itself acquired some years ago. Personally I look forward to seeing what the dev org will do with this.

Oracle Acquires Sleepycat

Oracle has acquired Sleepycat Software, makers of the open-source BerkeleyDB embeddable database engine. As you may know, BerkeleyDB is essentially a library to...

Oracle has acquired Sleepycat Software, makers of the open-source BerkeleyDB embeddable database engine. As you may know, BerkeleyDB is essentially a library to which applications can make function calls, vs. issuing SQL queries to a standalone database server. Java and XML editions are also available.Most important, as CEO Mike Olson notes in his blog about the acquisition, "We have no plans to changethe open source strategy that Sleepycat pioneered, and that has been...

"Pre-Production" Relea se of Oracle Database XE/Windows

A Beta 3 -- or what development is calling a "pre-production" release -- of Oracle Database XE on Windows is now available for download from OTN. it will...

A Beta 3 -- or what development is calling a "pre-production" release -- of Oracle Database XE on Windows is now available for download from OTN. it will require a de-install of previous releases (Beta 1 or Beta 2).

Shameless Plug

Oracle Fusion Middleware is now a certified platform for the SourceLabs"SASH" stack, which includes Apache Struts, Apache Axis, the Spring Framework,...

Oracle Fusion Middleware is now a certified platform for the SourceLabs"SASH" stack, which includes Apache Struts, Apache Axis, the Spring Framework, andHibernate. Talk about "hot-pluggable"!SourceLabs will provide subscription-based support for developers who download the stack via OTN.

blogs.oracle.com Rises

As you can see we are putting finishing touches on the migration from orablogs to the new blogs.oracle.com. The Oracle blogging community is about to get a...

As you can see we are putting finishing touches on the migration from orablogs to the new blogs.oracle.com. The Oracle blogging community is about to get a facelift...[ Technorati Profile ]

Release 3 of Oracle Application Server 10g and JDev 10g - Production

The production releases of Oracle Application Server 10g (10.1.3) and Oracle JDeveloper 10g (10.1.3) are now available for download from OTN.There is a huge...

The production releases of Oracle Application Server 10g (10.1.3) and Oracle JDeveloper 10g (10.1.3) are now available for download from OTN.There is a huge laundry list of new features, with all the details available on OTN proper.Also, check out this podcast interview with Brian Fry and Shay Shmeltzer from the JDev team.