I mentioned in a previous post that my company were planning to move all of our middle tier infrastructure and some of our Oracle databases to Oracle Linux running on a virtual infrastructure. That process is now underway. Persuading the company to ditch Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) in favor of Oracle Linux took a [...]
I tweeted the following yesterday, “It’s 7 years ago today that I was made an Oracle ACE. Seriously. It was April Fools Day 2006… ” The followup from that tweet included a number of questions about what you get out of becoming an Oracle ACE and what is the quickest way to become one. In [...]
I’ve just wasted quite a bit of time trying to figure out why one of my VirtualBox VMs wasn’t starting properly, so I thought I would share the experience here in case anyone else has a similar issue… It all started because I decided to fire up an OL6 VM, that I hadn’t used for [...]
Last year I wrote an article about the installation of Oracle Forms and Reports Services 11gR2 on Oracle Linux 5. I’ve now written the article for Oracle Forms and Reports Services 11gR2 on Oracle Linux 6. The latest patch of F&RS is certified for OL6, along with JDK6 and JDK7. In addition to the installation articles, [...]
Were you thinking, “I’ve got nothing better to do this weekend than to download the latest version of VirtualBox and update the guest additions on all my VMs”? Well your luck is in! Oracle have just released VirtualBox 4.2.10. The downloads and changelog are in the usual places. Happy upgrading! Cheers Tim…
Oracle will be releasing Oracle Database 12cR1 at some point this year. Many companies will avoid this release, opting to wait for 12cR2, their reasoning being it will be more stable and, as a terminal release, will have a longer support life-cycle. Since 12cR2 is what most businesses care about, what can we do to make [...]
I just noticed VirtualBox 4.2.8 has been born. The downloads and changelog are in the usual places. Happy upgrading. Cheers Tim…
I spent yesterday neatening up a few old articles. For the most part it is a bit of a dull process, but it has to be done every so often. With what’s going on at work, it seemed like a good idea bring my old Kickstart and PXE Installation articles up to date. My kickstart article [...]
Followers of the blog will know I dig virtualization. I first ran Oracle in virtualized environments over a decade ago. In my current company there is a strong virtualization presence in the Windows space. Pretty much all Windows servers, including those running MS SQL Server, are actually VMs running on a VMware farm. The UNIX/Linux side is [...]
The recent ruling on the Oracle vs. HP case throws a lifeline to those customers already committed to Oracle on Itanium, like my current company, but what does this really mean as far as new customers are concerned? Now this is just my opinion and you are free to disagree, but as far as I’m [...]