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Now thats a beautiful Rack !

Don't you just love it when cool new technology lives up to the hype ?or at least closely approxiamates it. Just before OpenWorld I fitted a new Rack to my...

Don't you just love it when cool new technology lives up to the hype ?or at least closely approxiamates it. Just before OpenWorld I fitted a new Rack to my wife's prius. I've managed to get 51.8 MPG a little short of the advertised 60MPG - still that is at least 2.5 times better than the old non-hybrid engine that I traded in.At OpenWorld 2005 I dropped in on the Extreme RAC sessions, they had over 200 machines going with at least another 100 people waiting to get on, and...

Tom Kyte's Presentation and OTN "Expert" Session

Did you miss Tom Kyte's OpenWorld presentation on 10 things "he likes" in Oracle Database 10g Release 2? If so, the content and comments in his own...

Did you miss Tom Kyte's OpenWorld presentation on 10 things "he likes" in Oracle Database 10g Release 2? If so, the content and comments in his own pre-presentation blog are informative. (According to Tom there were 1,000+ attendees as this session!)Conditional compilation seems to be sneaking up on most lists of favorite features. PL/SQL product manager Bryn Llewellyn is talking this feature up at OOW as well. Bryn and Steven Feuerstein teamed up for an OTN Lounge "Meet the...

OTN Night Madness

As usual, OTN Night ("OTN Underground" this year) was absolutely packed last night (Monday). - David Stewart from Intel's Software and Solutions Group gave a...

As usual, OTN Night ("OTN Underground" this year) was absolutely packed last night (Monday). - David Stewart from Intel's Software and Solutions Group gave a pre-party presentation about "demystifying" platform choices (Xeon? Itanium? 64-bit? etc.) for IT architecture (especially Grid). I also had a chance to chat with David post-talk, which we have captured in a podcast to publish on Wednesday.- Oracle's Open Source Development Team (Wim Coekaerts, Saar Maoz, Joel Becker, et...

JDev 10.1.3 + Oracle ADF Early Access / OOW Pix

As reported by various bloggers, a brand new Oracle JDeveloper 10.1.3 Early Access release is available for download. This release is virtually feature-complete...

As reported by various bloggers, a brand new Oracle JDeveloper 10.1.3 Early Access release is available for download. This release is virtually feature-complete and includes a new version of Oracle ADF.Here's a shot of the UI, straight from the Demo Pod at OOW:...and here are some other miscellaneous pix from the floor:Rob Clevenger & Shay Shmeltzer (JDev team) show off the JDev t-shirts available at the show.Oracle BPEL Process Manager is getting lots of attention.OOW Data...

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.