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Okay first my dirty little secret… my family home desktop machine runs Windows 7.  Earlier this week I had a need …

By Phil HillAlong with others, I have written several times over the past 12 months here, here, here and here about the significant changes occurring in the educational LMS market. In my opinion, when we look back on market changes, 2011 will stand ou…

The Functional Model of PaaS is nice, but the Operational Model matters more.
Let’s first define these terms.
The Functional Model is what the platform does for you. For example, in the case of AWS S3, it means storing objects and making them accessi…

Important Security AnnouncementOracle Security Alert for CVE-2011-5035 was released on January 31st, 2012.Oracle strongly recommends applying Security Alert fixes as soon as possible.The Security Alert Advisory is the starting point for relevant inform…

I delivered a NetBeans-driven Java EE 6 session to about 80+
attendees at the Austin JUG yesterday. The session built a typical
three-tier Web application using the new/updated technologies in the
Java EE 6 platform. I was told this is one of the la…

I’m glad someone finally pointed this out about the BYOD movement: Who Has Apples at Work? In Many Cases, It’s the Bosses (h/t Between the Lines)
From my long-past days in IT, I remember the added pressure of supporting executives, regardless of w…

Well, this is interesting: Is it time to say goodbye to Siri?
A few months ago, when I finally upgraded my wife’s OG iPhone, I initially bought the 4, but settled on the 4S because she thought Siri sounded useful and cool. I told her my opinion, bas…

I suspect many people now take workcations, given how common tablets and smartphones are and how easy it has become to do work on the go, and similarly how hard it has become to disconnect from the internets.
One trend I wholeheartedly endorse is the r…

By Audrey WattersThe learning management system upstart Instructure is unveiling Canvas K-12 today, a version of its platform aimed — as the name suggests — for the K-12 level. The company says that it’s already had over a dozen school districts …

Contributions by Angela Golla, Infogram ContributorE-Business Suite 12.1Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1 Helps Customers Reduce Customizations, Consolidate Instances and Achieve Faster and More Simplified Reporting. This press release highlights companies …

SAP co-CEO Bill McDermott said in an interview published Monday that he could see SAP’s High Performance Analytic Appliance (HANA) being licensed to Oracle, one of its main rivals in the database and business applications space.
According to Reuters,…

GlassFish can be downloaded in different forms and shape. Here are
some of the main websites that provide a pre-packaged bundle:

GlassFish Open Source Edition: glassfish.org
Oracle GlassFish Server: oracle.com/goto/glassfish
Java EE 6 SDK: oracle.com…

Oracle France organise le 8 mars prochain une journée de découverte de la solution Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c.Ce rendez-vous d’experts permet de se composer un programme complet à la carte autour de thèmes majeurs : Performance, Migration et Tes…

A réserver … dès maintenant !

Want to learn how Java EE 6
drastically reduces the amount of code to be written and
still improves your productivity for build a Web application
?

Simple, ease-of-use, extensible, light-weight are some of
the terms very commonly associated with …

Again Oracle shows its commitment to continue investing in PeopleSoft. This time by changing the release model of PeopleSoft Applications Portal, formally known as PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal, by adding Feature Packs. With these Feature Packs customer…

Again Oracle shows its commitment to continue investing in PeopleSoft. This time by changing the release model of PeopleSoft Applications Portal, formally known as PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal, by adding Feature Packs. With these Feature Packs customer…

In case you’re in the market for a new car, these few data points about a recent on-line buying experience may be of interest.
Here’s an interesting view of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) from the perspective of a car dealership. I mention this f…

(…Being a ramble through mnemonics, phonetics, information theory, pi, absolute zero, and cosmology, also touching on rutabagas and conches.)

Sometimes we need to commit a number to short-term memory, such as an street address or parking garage be…

As promised Oracle is now supplying Oracle Fusion Applications on Windows. Most system administrators and installers will probably say, why is this important? Bringing Oracle Fusion Applications to Windows makes the application more accessible t…