The big discussion that I get drawn into on a regular basis is "why upgrade". Why should someone go from something that is working fine to months of effort and...
The big discussion that I get drawn into on a regular basis is "why upgrade". Why should someone go from something that is working fine to months of effort and potential cost? What is the value in change? Why do something different? In this blog entry, I will try to address these two questions. Let's start with a baseline. Steven Chang does a good job in his blog describing premium support, extended support, and sustaining support. To summarize here, premium support is what...
The big discussion that I get drawn into on a regular basis is "why upgrade". Why should someone go from something that is working fine to months of effort and potential cost? What is the value...
It seems that there has been a bunch of IT shops that are suddenly motivated in upgrading their EBS 11i environment to 12i. Interesting trend but unusual that...
It seems that there has been a bunch of IT shops that are suddenly motivated in upgrading their EBS 11i environment to 12i. Interesting trend but unusual that it is happening all at once. In the next few weeks I will be blogging on upgrade strategies, best practices, recommendations, what to avoid, and what to look for. This will not be the definitive location for everything but a reference point on how to. Having been an admin in a past life, I realize that finding the right...
It seems that there has been a bunch of IT shops that are suddenly motivated in upgrading their EBS 11i environment to 12i. Interesting trend but unusual that it is happening all at once. In the next...
Now that the new has been digested that Oracle really did purchase Sun Microsystems, let's take a qualitative look at the software available from Sun. Starting...
Now that the new has been digested that Oracle really did purchase Sun Microsystems, let's take a qualitative look at the software available from Sun. Starting with the software index page we see a list of 10 major components. 1) Operating Systems. This is Solaris for Sparc and Solaris for Intel. It also includes OpenSolaris. All of these are really one in the same but different ports. OpenSolaris is the source code distribution similar to the Linux distribution model....
Now that the new has been digested that Oracle really did purchase Sun Microsystems, let's take a qualitative look at the software available from Sun. Starting with the software index page we see...
Great, just what we need. Another term that is a marketing buzz saw. Unfortunately, this one makes sense. Cloud Computing. First there was parallel processing....
Great, just what we need. Another term that is a marketing buzz saw. Unfortunately, this one makes sense. Cloud Computing. First there was parallel processing. Then there was grid computing which is a very confusing term. Oracle and Amazon announced yesterday
Great, just what we need. Another term that is a marketing buzz saw. Unfortunately, this one makes sense. Cloud Computing. First there was parallel processing. Then there was grid computing which is a...
Internal to Oracle we are in process of updating the way that we collaborate. For years we have used jabber internally and even got a mandate that we had to use...
Internal to Oracle we are in process of updating the way that we collaborate. For years we have used jabber internally and even got a mandate that we had to use jabber for internal chats. I completely understand this. Google Talk and AIM are insecure protocols that can be snooped once you leave your firewall and both leave the firewall and come back in if you are chatting with someone in the next cube. It make sense. This week we were all given the chance to start using the...
Internal to Oracle we are in process of updating the way that we collaborate. For years we have used jabber internally and even got a mandate that we had to use jabber for internal chats. I completely...
The question of building an application vs buying an application does not come up very often but when it does it is a difficult conversation to have. I would...
The question of building an application vs buying an application does not come up very often but when it does it is a difficult conversation to have. I would understand if the discussion were public domain vs commercial products. That is a discussion that I have on a regular basis. I got some training on Oracle Web Center the other day and kept comparing it to uPortal. Yes there are differences. Yes one is a commercial product and the other is public domain. Yes there is...
The question of building an application vs buying an application does not come up very often but when it does it is a difficult conversation to have. I would understand if the discussion were public...
After weeks of waiting and pain in backing up my laptop, I got a new Dell Latitude D630. This system has the new virtualization hardware so that I can do a HVM...
After weeks of waiting and pain in backing up my laptop, I got a new Dell Latitude D630. This system has the new virtualization hardware so that I can do a HVM (hardware virtualized machine). I tried doing this with a Dell D620 but the hardware did not support virtualization. 1) backup the existing laptop. I wanted to make sure I didn't loose the WindowsXP image since they are getting harder and harder to find these days.2) remove the disk that is in the laptop and put in...
After weeks of waiting and pain in backing up my laptop, I got a new Dell Latitude D630. This system has the new virtualization hardware so that I can do a HVM (hardware virtualized machine). I tried...
Gartner says that data warehouse is the next big thing. Oracle is big into this space. It is something that many customers are interested in. It begs the...
Gartner says that data warehouse is the next big thing. Oracle is big into this space. It is something that many customers are interested in. It begs the questions, what the heck is data warehouse and why should you care?The key words that are usually associated with data warehouse are consolidation, business intelligence, single server, data mining, and analytics. What I can gather is that data warehousing is a mechanism for gathering key metrics about the business on one...
Gartner says that data warehouse is the next big thing. Oracle is big into this space. It is something that many customers are interested in. It begs the questions, what the heck is data warehouse and...
I was watching a Phil Lee podcast available through PodTechNet. The discussion was about Microsoft SharePoint Collaboration Server. The discussion made me start...
I was watching a Phil Lee podcast available through PodTechNet. The discussion was about Microsoft SharePoint Collaboration Server. The discussion made me start thinking.The legacy behind the SharePoint product is that it started as a Site Server and migrated to SharePoint 1.0. Microsoft then merged Front Page into Windows SharePoint Services which morfed into SharePoint Portal Server 2003. The idea is to take the typical tools that everyone uses (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint)...
I was watching a Phil Lee podcast available through PodTechNet. The discussion was about Microsoft SharePoint Collaboration Server. The discussion made me start thinking.The legacy behind the...
