Daily Archives Saturday, May 2008

“Bashups” : Data Mashups Meet Business Intelligence

Dan Vlamis sent me a link through to a recent article by Mark Whitehorn on “Data Bashups”, an idea that takes business intelligence and uses it in “mashups”:
“For example, suppose you are interested in the effect an advertising spend is having citywide. Your company invested in renting several prominent and expensive billboards in a city [...]

Web 2.0 Round Table with Charles Phillips, London

I mentioned the other week that I got an invite to a roundtable session with Oracle’s President, Charles Phillips, at the Lanesborough Hotel in London. The session itself was last Friday and so I thought I’d go along, there were I think around eight bloggers, analysts and journalists that came to the along and the [...]

CPU usage

I made a few comments recently on a post in the Oracle Forum that raised the issue of CPU usage and how busy a CPU can get.
Shortly afterwards my blog dashboard showed a couple of incoming references from a blog entry that Chen Shapira had made about my comments. Her blog had received a couple [...]

Configuring Multiple Weblogic IIS Plug-Ins On Same IIS Server

As some of you may know, I’ve been working on a deployment of BEA Weblogic these past couple of weeks. We were doing some testing today and found an interesting side effect that was positively unexpected. Let me first say that the issues we encountered were with IIS configuration, not specifically with Weblogic. However, the [...]