Tag: Oracle
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Oracle OpenWorld 2010
Oracle OpenWorld 2010 is casting its shadows because it’s merely two weeks in the future now. I again didn’t manage to get sent… but the lucky few 😉 who will be there, here’s some advice: from the DWH guys on getting organized, from the OEM guys on the Top 11 Things to do, and you…
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HP Sues Hurd For Accepting Oracle Co-President Position
I wasn’t going to write about Mark Hurd joining Oracle, but this is too good to ignore, or as Dave Kellogg puts it: This makes daytime soaps look boring by comparison. More in Techcrunch. And some more unique thoughts from Curt Monash.
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Oracle RAC on VirtualBox
Oracle RAC on VirtualBox is now possible because VirtualBox now supports shared disks. Tim Hall of ORACLE-BASE fame has added a write-up of all the steps required to get 11gR2 RAC on VirtualBox up and running. Thx Tim!
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Oracle Mergers & Acquisitions: Who’s Next?
Stephen Jannise of Distribution Software Advice put together a nice speculate post about Oracle’s next acquisition targets based on an analysis of the last five years worth of acquisitions: Oracle Mergers & Acquisitions: Who’s Next? Teradata, Informatica and Tibco are his straightforward ideas – go read his article for more.
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NoSQL Ecosystem
Jonathan Ellis from the Cassandra project published a fantastic overview of the current NoSQL ecosystem in late 2009. He analyzed 10 popular NoSQL databases along three axes: horizontal scalability, data model and internal persistence design. It’s a great read, and still pretty much valid as of today. I stumbled upon it via Emil Eifrem from…
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Synthesis of Specialized and General Purpose
Closing the specialization vs. general purpose mini-series (part 1, part 2) is Keith Laker from Oracle’s Data Warehouse Insider blog in The Next Evolutionary Step – Analytical Connectivity. And he’s arguing that the shift towards specialization is already over, and appliances will be dead within 2-3 years. This evolution from needing a specialized appliance to…
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The Shift Towards Specialized Hardware and Software
Following up on yesterday’s post we have Stephen O’Grady from RedMonk looking at specialization vs. general purpose from a general industry perspective: A Swing of the Pendulum: The Shift Towards Specialized Hardware and Software. Excellent read: What might be different this time around is that on a macro basis, the market is showing an increased…
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Simplification Through Specialization
Ramon Chen’s post Simplification Through Specialization (later repeated on the Rainstor blog) rang quite a bell with me, also on the personal level. But here’s why specialization is better for some: If you were going to spend big bucks, you’d expect results and performance to match your use cases and requirements. With Big Data upon…
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End of Oracle 10gR2 Premier Support
Ronny Egner’s post reminded me that when you come back to work next week, Oracle 10gR2 will be in Extended Support. Luckily for all of us (who can say they have no more 10g databases?), Oracle doesn’t charge their customers for the first year of Extended Support on Oracle 10gR2, so you’ll have another year…
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Linux for Oracle Tuning Checklist
A quick post on a Linux for Oracle Tuning Checklist I found in Ronny Egner’s blog. If you’re doing Oracle on Linux, this is a must read (best while sitting at a Linux terminal), else just ignore this post.