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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...

Oracle @ LinuxWorld 2005 San Francisco

Well first off Wim Coekaerts our director of linux engineering and open source development has a new blog.Monday I sat in on the keynote where Oracle president...

Well first off Wim Coekaerts our director of linux engineering and open source development has a new blog.Monday I sat in on the keynote where Oracle president Charles Phillips gave a bunch of interesting stats and observations on Linux adoption and Oracle's strategy.Linux adoption stats :32% unit server growth, 31% growth by customer revenue last year+1,500 ISVs support Oracle on Linux -- up from almost zero 3 years agoOracle's OnDemand or software as a service business has...

Pics from OSCON 2005 & Richard's Blog

There are some pictures of Wes and Andi at Oracles booth at OSCON 2005, along with some more details in Richard's blog.I will try an capture some of the more...

There are some pictures of Wes and Andi at Oracles booth at OSCON 2005, along with some more details in Richard's blog.I will try an capture some of the more salient points of OTN's activities at LinuxWorld 2005 San Francisco as we are there this week.

Oracle & PHP live from Portland OSCON 2005

So what does Oracle have to do with open source ?at least two developers asked me that question today.My response, " well we run a good portion of our business...

So what does Oracle have to do with open source ?at least two developers asked me that question today.My response, " well we run a good portion of our business on linux. we also have a dedicated kernel team that is working very hard to get OCFS2 a GPL'd cluster file system ready for production use and inclusion in the mainline linux kernel.And right next to me we have two developers (Chris and Richard) from our Melbourne development center who have been working with the PHP...