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Charles Phillips to Henning Kagermann: "Bring Down This Wall"

Just caught the Charles Phillips keynote on a hallway monitor. Forget about getting into the keynote hall; here's the scene:The key point in my view:- Oracle is...

Just caught the Charles Phillips keynote on a hallway monitor. Forget about getting into the keynote hall; here's the scene:The key point in my view:- Oracle is fully embracing the SOA model to the extent that customers should feel free to "use somebody else's" solution (whether it be a portal, identity management layer, app server, etc.) in the IT stack whenever it makes sense to do that. In fact, Phillips announced that Oracle packaged applications *will run natively* on...

It Begins

The attendees are streaming into SF this afternoon; many are already here for the pre-conference X-treme sessions, especially the RAC one in which participants...

The attendees are streaming into SF this afternoon; many are already here for the pre-conference X-treme sessions, especially the RAC one in which participants have been literally building their own RAC clusters throughout the weekend. (Of course, OTN provides its own cookbook for doing that as well, via a FireWire interconnect.)Also grabbed two quick snaps of the OOW 2005 bag:Bag - Normal ViewBag - Action View(Thanks to Lily Lam for modeling! An OOW Photos RSS feed is...

Meet the First Java Developer to Travel into Space

The Oracle Space Sweepstakes has ended with a big bang: the naming of the first Grand Prize Winner, Brian Emmett.The Oracle Space Sweepstakes, which "launched"...

The Oracle Space Sweepstakes has ended with a big bang: the naming of the first Grand Prize Winner, Brian Emmett.The Oracle Space Sweepstakes, which "launched" at OpenWorld last December, gave Java developers around the world the chance to win a trip on a Space Adventures suborbital vehicle 62 miles above the surface of the Earth. And Brian is the North American entrant (winners TBD in Europe/Middle East/Africa and Asia-Pacific) who did it! This guy is literally booked on a...

Get Cooking with BPEL

We've just launched a particularly interesting Technical Articles series on OTN: SOA Best Practices: The BPEL Cookbook. The first three installments, all...

We've just launched a particularly interesting Technical Articles series on OTN: SOA Best Practices: The BPEL Cookbook. The first three installments, all available today, include "A Services-Oriented Approach to Business Rules," "Building a Web Services Network with BPEL," and "Making BPEL Processes Dynamic."The key point here is that these articles are provided entirely by BPEL implementers out there in the real world, tellin' it like it is. I'm confident that you will not...

Social Bookmarking

Some of you may be delving into the various social bookmarking services out there (digg, del.icio.us, etc.), and we're curious to know how much you like them.As...

Some of you may be delving into the various social bookmarking services out there (digg, del.icio.us, etc.), and we're curious to know how much you like them.As a first step we are publishing del.icio.us RSS for several tags (otn, oracle, jdeveloper, and so on), and of course we now have our own del.icio.us page.Tell us which social bookmarking services you use (if any) in the online poll currently posted in OTN's Feedback forum.

Oracle Database 10g Release 2 for Windows Download

Oracle Database 10g Release 2 for Windows is now available for download from OTN, relatively quickly on the heels of Linux x86. All major versions are now...

Oracle Database 10g Release 2 for Windows is now available for download from OTN, relatively quickly on the heels of Linux x86. All major versions are now available.Also, .NET developers will be interested in the new "Mastering .NET Application Development with Oracle" series, which also debuted today. (Part 1 is from Oracle ACE Mark Williams--author of Pro .NET Oracle Programming--on using ODP.NET and ref cursors to optimize result set retrieval from the database.) This...

Podcasting from OOW

As reported in InformationWeek, OTN will be recording podcast interviews with Oracle technical minds like Steve Muench (Oracle ACE), Vijay Tella (chief strategy...

As reported in InformationWeek, OTN will be recording podcast interviews with Oracle technical minds like Steve Muench (Oracle ACE), Vijay Tella (chief strategy officer for Oracle Fusion Middleware), Cliff Godwin (SVP Applications Technology), Tom Kyte, Wim Coekaerts, and more. As far as we know this will be the first example of podcasting from a conference floor.If you are already an OTN TechCast subscriber you will receive these MP3s in your regular RSS feed. If you're not,...

Zend Core for Oracle Beta Now Available

PHP coders will be happy with the news that Zend Core for Oracle, a fully tested and supported PHP development and deployment environment integrated with the...

PHP coders will be happy with the news that Zend Core for Oracle, a fully tested and supported PHP development and deployment environment integrated with the Oracle Database, is now available as a Beta download from OTN. No more rolling your own code, or crossing your fingers for a stable production deployment! This is really going to solve a lot of headaches.Look for how-to's about how to take the best possible advantage of ZC for Oracle at the PHP Developer Center as we get...

The Underground Guide to Oracle OpenWorld 2005

Oracle OpenWorld can be just a bit overwhelming, no? If you think so now, imagine the 2005 version: a combination of the OOW, PeopleSoft Connect, Retek, and JD...

Oracle OpenWorld can be just a bit overwhelming, no? If you think so now, imagine the 2005 version: a combination of the OOW, PeopleSoft Connect, Retek, and JD Edwards shows of yesteryear. Ouch!Fortunately, OTN can help you process this information firehose via The Underground Guide to Oracle OpenWorld 2005, wherein you can find agenda highlights that we think will attract developers and DBAs -- such as OTN Night, the "Meet the Experts" schedule in the OTN Lounge, tech...