I know it’s been said before, but I read this and thought, once Red Hat’s market value starts to drop Oracle could get a really good deal.
I thought the reference to the quality of Red Hat’s support was quite comical. I’ve always found their support to be terrible. To be more specific, you raise a [...]
The first 500 people at Wim Coekaerts (VP of Linux and Virtualization Engineering) Q&A session getthe OTN installfest media kit. It contains:
Enterprise Linux 5 U4 32 & 64 bit
Oracle 11g R2 Database 32 & 64 bit
Fusion Middleware DVD for Linux
SQL Developer
APEX
Oracle VM (2.1.5)
And much more…
The event is 7:30-9:30 Yerba Buena Theatre, left of OTN tent [...]
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Posted 12 October 2009
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While I was in Chile at the CLOUG event I met Arjen and Bertie from Avisit Solutions Limited, who produce an alternative to Oracle Data Guard called Dbvisit. Unlike Data Guard, you can use Dbvisit with Standard Edition, so it can be a real money saver.
The company have started a new blog, so if you [...]
I guess the Oracle-Sun news makes everything else seem pretty small scale, so the launch of VMware ESX Server 4.0 will probably go largely unnoticed.
I’ve used many of the VMware offerings (Workstation, Server, GSX Server, ESX Server, ESXi, Intrastructure etc.) and seen the demos of the advanced features and they are impressive, but I have [...]
So Oracle have put in a bid for Sun… I suppose the next step is to release Exadata on their own hardware, but I’m sure HP have got some tight exclusivity contracts around this for a while at least.
I guess this purchase makes a lot of sense for Oracle due to their heavy investment in [...]
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Posted 20 April 2009
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So I’m back home and I have to adjust to normal life again. The CLOUG event was great fun and I hope to visit Chile again soon.
A big thank you to all those involved and all the attendees for turning up.
Cheers
Tim…
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Posted 20 April 2009
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You may have noticed I’ve not written much recently. There are lots of things going on at the moment, none of which are really conducive to sitting down and writing about Oracle.
Anyway, today I’ve decided to clear my backlog of emails and blog posts. The emails were tough, but the “Mark all as read” button [...]
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Posted 19 January 2009
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I’m a bit hacked off because I’m missing out on UKOUG…
I got a free pass to check out the conference this year and I can’t go because I’ve got a cold. I spent the whole of yesterday in bed and I think I’m going back there now. I’m bored out of my brain, but every [...]
I was told about 23:00 last night I would be on a flight at 9:45 this morning. I’ve been standing in a queue for an hour to be told I’m not on the flight. I’m currently 2nd on the standby list for a flight that has been overbooked by about 50 people. I really don’t [...]
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Posted 20 September 2008
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This article is the last in the “Security: New Features” section of the OCP upgrade exam syllabus, which includes:
Case Sensitive Passwords
Tablespace Encryption
Fine Grained Access to Network Services
Just because these are the only security new features listed in the exam, don’t be fooled into thinking they are the only things you should care about. There are [...]
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