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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.

Inside Oracle's Linux Projects, Part 2

Just podcasted a recorded 3-way conversation between myself, Dir. ofLinux Engineering Wim Coekaerts, and OTN's Todd Trichler. Among otherthings Wim comments on...

Just podcasted a recorded 3-way conversation between myself, Dir. ofLinux Engineering Wim Coekaerts, and OTN's Todd Trichler. Among otherthings Wim comments on the "social engineering" that is often requiredto get functionality merged into the mainline Linux kernel (in thecontext of OCFS2, which will be the first cluster file system to be sointegrated - in 2.6.16 RC1).Wim also touches on how Oracle is working with the Debian communityto gather requirements (Oracle Database XE...

It Worked!

Congratulations and welcome to your new site.To start editing this site please log in. Your email address and password are the same as the ones used to create...

Congratulations and welcome to your new site.To start editing this site please log in. Your email address and password are the same as the ones used to create this website.After logging in, click the Edit link at the end of this post to edit this text. To create a new post, click the News command in the Editors Only menu at the top of this page.This is your site. You can change almost everything about it, including its name, appearance, membership and bulletin features. The...

What is "Community"?

There has been much discussion/controversy in the Oracle Blogospherere: the appearance of Eddie Awad's new collaborative Q&A site, OraQA. This new site joins...

There has been much discussion/controversy in the Oracle Blogospherere: the appearance of Eddie Awad's new collaborative Q&A site, OraQA. This new site joins AskTom, Jonathan Lewis' Users Co-operative FAQ, Google CDOS, Best Practice PL/SQL, Dizwell Forum, etc.The "con" camp is of the mind that a new Q&A resource servesonly to 1) fuel bad habits by propagating unreliable info and 2)"fracture" the Oracle community.I don't quite understand the concerns on either count. One of...

Linus merges OCFS2 into 2.6.16-rc1

Kudo's to Oracle's Linux Engineering team and the linux development community looks like all their hard work and attention to detail is starting to pay...

Kudo's to Oracle's Linux Engineering team and the linux development community looks like all their hard work and attention to detail is starting to pay off.Linus Torvalds just announced on the linux kernel mailing list that he just released a new kernel 2.6.16-rc1 . read the changelog at kernel.orghttp://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.16-rc1This new kernel includes a bunch of improvements for various architectures,and also OCFS2 for those of you...

New Oracle Q&A Site

This new site is definitely worth checking out...sort of an Alphafilter for Oracle.I lookw forward to seeing more categories emerge as this community builds...

This new site is definitely worth checking out...sort of an Alphafilter for Oracle.I lookw forward to seeing more categories emerge as this community builds out...

Default Passwords are Evil

EWeek, as usual, is doing its best to raise alarm bells re: Oracle security, this time in regard to a published worm that is designed to take advantage of the...

EWeek, as usual, is doing its best to raise alarm bells re: Oracle security, this time in regard to a published worm that is designed to take advantage of the use of default usernames and passwords. The article does at least correctly point out that this work exploits DBA-created password schemes, not Oracle technology per se.DBAs, remember to always, always change all default passwords after installation! We are working with Oracle ACE and security expert Arup Nanda to...

OTN Visitor Browsers & OSs

I recently exchanged posts with an OTN member about the support (or lack thereof) of the Opera browser in Oracle Website infrastructure. (Read the thread here;...

I recently exchanged posts with an OTN member about the support (or lack thereof) of the Opera browser in Oracle Website infrastructure. (Read the thread here; login required.)During this process I ran a report on the browsers and OSs used by OTN visitors (vs. Internet averages):Browser , Percentage , Internet AvgIE 6.0 , 69.3% , 75.8% Firefox , 22.7% , 8.6% Mozilla , 2.2% , 0.5% Opera , 1.5% , 0.3% IE 5.5 , 0.8% , 0.9% IE 5.01 , 0.8% , 0.3% Netscape , 0.6% , 0.3% Safari ,...

Download Project Raptor Early Adopter Release

You may have heard rumblings at Oracle OpenWorld, or since then from various in-the-know bloggers, about Oracle's new graphical database development tool...

You may have heard rumblings at Oracle OpenWorld, or since then from various in-the-know bloggers, about Oracle's new graphical database development tool (codename "Project Raptor"). Well, Project Raptor has now arrived in the form of an Early Adopter Release, and furthermore, it's free.You can download this release for Windows or Linux today from OTN, we all as browse "getting started" content, demos, and screenshots. And if you have a question or comment about this release,...