Daily Archives Saturday, November 2008

Oracle BIWA Summit, 2nd-3rd December 2008

One conference that I won’t be going to, but I really wish I was, is the second Oracle BIWA Summit on December 2nd and 3rd 2008 at Redwood Shores, California. The Oracle BIWA SIG (Business Intelligence, Warehousing and Analytics Special Interest Group) is a SIG within the IOUG that focuses on the database-driven part of [...]

I Am Now Intrepid

I dumped Windows for good back in July and have been running Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron on my Dell since then.
I love Open Source, and for the most part, I’ve enjoyed running Ubuntu. I’ve found it to be on par with XP for stability and superior in usability. Before you quibble with the stability comment, [...]

A Posse, I Has One

The sadly unfortunate and untimely death of one of our own has me waxing philosophically about our “community”.
Those of us who blog about Oracle (or even just blog in general) form a loosely-coupled community of like-minded individuals, i.e. we don’t agree on everything, but we can all agree that blogging is important.
I’m impressed and a [...]