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JDeveloper Now Free of Charge

For those of you out there who have yet to see the news dribble out in the trade press (a formal press release has not yet hit the wire), Oracle has made Oracle...

For those of you out there who have yet to see the news dribble out in the trade press (a formal press release has not yet hit the wire), Oracle has made Oracle JDeveloper free for all developers. Not just a free download -- free period. This is really good news! More information is available via this pricing FAQ.Orablogger Sue Harper is tracking some of the discussion forum activity on this news at her blog. More blogging on the topic is sure to follow; stay tuned to the...

Linux Dev Update: OCFS2 & SLES9 SP2

One of one my development friends 'down under' commented on the length of my last blog on the adoption of Oracle on Linux and PHP. I'll try and be a little more...

One of one my development friends 'down under' commented on the length of my last blog on the adoption of Oracle on Linux and PHP. I'll try and be a little more succinct this time ;-)Oracle Cluster File System 2 is currently included in the Novell SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 daily kernel builds. I asked Wim Coekaerts for a quick update - apparently they have done internal testing of the SLES9 SP2 code with OCFS2, and were able to do a 2 node RAC install including a shared...

Oracle Database 10g R2 "Sneak Peek"

Oracle Database 10g Release 2 is right around the corner, and to help you prepare for an evaluation or migration, OTN has made several technical resources...

Oracle Database 10g Release 2 is right around the corner, and to help you prepare for an evaluation or migration, OTN has made several technical resources available today:New technical white papers in various categories (performance, manageability, application development, etc.)An OTN TechCast (podcast interview) with Dr. DBA himself, Ken Jacobs, in which Ken discusses his favorite Release 2 features--and also why developers who are unfamiliar with Oracle should be taking a...

Installfest in Joburg; PHP in Amsterdam

OTN's Chief Installfest Officer, Todd Trichler, checks in with a report:May 2005 was a very busy month for me, with OTN sponsoring both the International PHP...

OTN's Chief Installfest Officer, Todd Trichler, checks in with a report:May 2005 was a very busy month for me, with OTN sponsoring both the International PHP Conference in Amsterdam, and the first-ever LinuxWorld in Johannesburg, South Africa. A lot of OTN members are very good with languages: C, Java, .Net, Perl, PHP...Having grown up in Joburg, I was exposed to languages of a different sort: Afrikaans, German, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu, and so on. South Africa has 11 official...

OTN Updates LAF

We just rolled out an improved, cleaner LAF for OTN. Most noticeably, a broad array of "deep links" have moved into a horizontal menu bar across the top of the...

We just rolled out an improved, cleaner LAF for OTN. Most noticeably, a broad array of "deep links" have moved into a horizontal menu bar across the top of the content area. It should be even easier to get around now.

OTN TechCasts Are Here

Podcasters, rejoice: podcasting has come to OTN in the form of TechCasts.In the next several months I'll be interviewing some of the technical minds at Oracle...

Podcasters, rejoice: podcasting has come to OTN in the form of TechCasts.In the next several months I'll be interviewing some of the technical minds at Oracle about recent technology announcements. For example, the first podcast consists of a chat with product manager Shaun Smith, about Oracle's effort to provide EJB 3.0 tools under the Eclipse license. Shaun also goes into detail about why EJB 3.0 is such a huge improvement over EJB 2.x for crafting a persistence layer in...

Oracle OpenWorld Gets X-Treme

Sheesh, Oracle OpenWorld gets more interesting in terms of DBA and developer technical content every year.As part of the 2005 event (register here), you can now...

Sheesh, Oracle OpenWorld gets more interesting in terms of DBA and developer technical content every year.As part of the 2005 event (register here), you can now attend a pre-show, weekend program called Oracle OpenWorld: The X-Treme Weekend. As described on the Web page, "This exclusive two-day program will consist of highly technical, deep-dive content not typically available in the regular OpenWorld agenda."Several tracks area available, including Apps technology, Grid...

Coming Soon: The InstallPHP Series

The International PHP Conference, which is sponsored by Oracle this year, is under way in Amsterdam. (Read the show's blog here for updates from the floor.)...

The International PHP Conference, which is sponsored by Oracle this year, is under way in Amsterdam. (Read the show's blog here for updates from the floor.) Oracle's involvement this year is testimony to the fact that PHP developers are becoming more aware that, as the language becomes mainstream--and with the introduction of the more robust PHP5--integrating PHP-based Web applications with enterprise-class database technology is not only feasible but necessary.In The...

An Official OTN Blog? It's About Time

Some of you may have followed the previous incarnation of this blog, which came into being in December 2004 for the purposes of reporting from the Oracle...

Some of you may have followed the previous incarnation of this blog, which came into being in December 2004 for the purposes of reporting from the Oracle OpenWorld 2004 floor.That blog was so popular that we've decided to resurrect it as a more comprehensive effort to offer opinions as well as information from some of the minds behind OTN. It will also serve to communicate some of the cool things that we're working on for developers and DBAs who rely on the Oracle technology...