March 10, 2008 3:05 PM
Posted by: Barney Beal
Managing an Oracle shop,
Oracle database administration,
Oracle developmentDuncan Jones at Forrester recently published some interesting research on best practices for negotiating with Oracle.
It's primarily based on the experiences of a group of Forrester...
March 4, 2008 3:51 PM
Posted by: Shayna Garlick
Blogroll,
Managing an Oracle shop,
Oracle applications,
Oracle database administrationThe results are in from Evans Data Corp.'s first survey on database user preferences -- and Oracle has made a clean sweep.
Oracle (version 10g or later) ranked number one in all 13 categories of the survey, which polled over 1,400 database users in December 2007. According to Evans Data., a...
February 27, 2008 1:22 PM
Posted by: Shayna Garlick
Managing an Oracle shop,
Oracle applications,
Oracle database administrationCollaborate '08 is fast approaching, and Oracle Enterprise Content Management (ECM) users can look forward to several ECM sessions, including Collaborate's ‘
February 25, 2008 5:49 PM
Posted by: Derek Kuhr
Managing an Oracle shop,
Oracle applications,
Oracle careers and certifications,
Oracle database administration,
Oracle developmentAfter nearly eight trips around the Sun, covering just about every technological topic from ABAP to zSeries, it's my last...
January 16, 2008 11:58 AM
Posted by: Derek Kuhr
Managing an Oracle shop,
Oracle database administrationOracle yesterday released its Critical Patch Update fixing vulnerabilities across its database and application product lines. But do Oracle database administrators really care?
The...
January 9, 2008 11:03 AM
Posted by: Clinek
Managing an Oracle shop,
Oracle applications,
Oracle database administration,
Oracle developmentLarry Ellison, everybody's favorite yacht-racing former-playboy billionaire, is beloved by journalists looking for a memorable quip . . . or a blog post. Here are a few amusing ones I've come across over the years:
On business:
"A corporation's primary goal is to make money....
January 7, 2008 9:18 PM
Posted by: Derek Kuhr
Managing an Oracle shop,
Oracle database administrationOur favorite security blogger -- Pete Finnigan of the Oracle Security Weblog -- today wrote about an instance of data theft that should serve as a valuable life lesson to anyone.
According to
January 2, 2008 10:36 AM
Posted by: Clinek
Managing an Oracle shop,
Oracle applications,
Oracle careers and certifications,
Oracle database administration,
Oracle developmentYou've read about the best movies of 2007 (which you haven't seen) and the most embarrassing celebrity scandals of 2007 (which you don't care about). How about something a tad more relevant?
Here is our look back at your
December 19, 2007 12:01 PM
Posted by: Derek Kuhr
Managing an Oracle shopThere's yet another interesting story out this week about Larry Ellison's unbelievable nack for making money.
The story, which appears on
