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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…

The downside of the rise of PaaS is the concomitant rise of bad PaaS puns. I noted a few recent ones (one of which I commited):

PaaSive Aggressive [link]
Everything is PaaSible [link]
You bet your PaaS [link]
The PaaSibilities are endless [link]

A…

In a press conference yesterday, SAP Co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe declared that the company will be going after Oracle…in the database market.
According to a Wall Street Journal blurbon the press conference, Snabe said that SAP is “ready to go for lea…

Important Planned OutageMy Oracle Support Outage Planned for Weekend of January 27, 2012A 5 hour outage is planned for My Oracle Support on Friday January 27, 2012 starting at 9:00 PM Pacific Time (Saturday January 28, 5:00 AM GMT/UTC) for system maint…

Attending an enterprisey conference means exchanging and collecting lots of business cards. I usually carry stickers, but somehow they’re not in my laptop bag anymore.
Anyway, one guy I met decided to connect to me on LinkedIn, a brilliant reminder o…

Apple’s earnings noted a halo effect, a.k.a. as the iPhone as a gateway drug.
Enterprise iPhone 4S activations spike, highlight Apple’s halo effect | ZDNet
Since its release in 2007, the iPhone has served as the perfect gateway drug to other Apple …

JavaOne Tokyo (Japan)
Date: April 4-5, 2012
Location: Academy Hills, 49F, Roppongi Tokyo
Website: Japanese,
English

JavaOne Moscow (Russia)
Date: April 17-18, 2012
Location: Crocus Expo, International Exhibition Center
Website: TBD

JavaOne Hyd…

Over on the WebCenter (@oraclewebcenter) blog, Peter (@peterreiser) has a detailed look at the migration of SunSpace to WebCenter, definitely worth a look if you’re interested in what WebCenter can do.
He even includes pictures of SunSpace communitie…

By Michael FeldsteinUnsurprisingly, there has been a lot of good coverage of the Apple announcements already. I’m partial to Phil Hill’s pre- and post-announcement write-ups here at e-Literate as well as Audrey Watters’ analysis at Hack Educatio…

Contributions by Angela Golla, Infogram ContributorNew My Oracle Support InterfaceMy Oracle Support is migrating from a Flash based end user interface. Learn more about this change and preview the new interface at Note:1385682.1.

Microsoft is launching SQL Server 2012 on March 7. An IM chat with a reporter resulted, and went something like this.
Reporter: [Care to comment]?
CAM: SQL Server is an adequate product if you don’t mind being locked into the Microsoft stack. For exa…

Death by bullet points?
On February 14-16, I’ll be at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, Colorado for RMOUG’s Training Days Conference. This is the largest regional Oracle User Conference in North America and attracts presen…

By Jim FarmerOn Friday January 20, two helicopters and “76 police staff, including armed offenders squad members” raided the home of Kim Dotcom north of Auckland, New Zealand. He was sought by the U.S. for copyright infringement and racketeering un…

As information technology is here to stay in HR and its role in future HR execution will increase evermore, I thought it might be a good idea to add a blog every now and then about the role of HR-IT in HR. Shortcuts will be taken and assumptions will b…

As information technology is here to stay in HR and its role in future HR execution will increase evermore, I thought it might be a good idea to add a blog every now and then about the role of HR-IT in HR. Shortcuts will be taken and assumptions will b…

Als je dit leest en je bent Oracle professional – ontwikkelaar of administrator – is de kans groot dat je jouw carriere bent gestart in de jaren ‘90, in het tijdperk van Oracle7, Oracle Forms en Client/Server applicaties – net voor de opkomst v…

Last week, our own Christian Finn (@cfinn) gave a webcast called “Do More with Oracle WebCenter,” but if you missed it, don’t fret, there’s a recording.
Check out the recap on the official WebCenter (@oraclewebcenter) blog:
Do More with Oracle …

Java Persistence API
2.1 Early Draft has been available for about a month now. JPA2
was one
of the first JSRs to be filed as part of Java

EE 7. Several other specifications in Java EE 7 have released
early drafts as well (JavaServer

Faces 2.0, JAX-…

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L’Oracle Magazine de Novembre / Décembre 2011 est disponible.