Sunday, June 29th, 2003 by Mark Rittman
There’s a good article over at Wired about the problems facing Sun Microsystems. They’re finding their market eroded on the one hand by Microsoft, with Windows Server 2003 appealing to the Microsoft market, and Linux on the other, offering the performance and Unix environment their high-end customers want.
Sun have let the Sparc platform drift these […]
Sunday, June 29th, 2003 by Mark Rittman
Interesting bit of info from Anthony Waite at Oracle. If you’ve followed our instructions on how to migrate existing Oracle Express databases to Oracle 9i OLAP, but are wondering why the OLAP Catalog entries you’ve created don’t show up using OEM, it’s because OEM only displays CWM metadata, and the OLAP Catalog entries you’ve just […]
Sunday, June 29th, 2003 by Mark Rittman
Still more links on SCO’s assorted allegations of copyright infringement. They say they’re going to sue Novell. Software analysts refuse to be part of the hoax - also some good quotes from Linus here. SCO and UNIX: a Comedy of Errors. Salon has a story on SCO too, but sadly it’s not available to read […]
Sunday, June 29th, 2003 by Mark Rittman
I recently got hold of a HP h5450 iPAQ with built in bluetooth and WIFI, to work alongside a Nokia 6310i to give me ‘always on’ internet connectivity using GPRS. It was fun and games setting it up, but I eventually got it all working and i’m pretty pleased with the result, such that often […]
Sunday, June 29th, 2003 by Mark Rittman
“Is Oracle about to get Netscaped?” asks CNN Money.
“Not only is the Redwood City, Calif.-based company still under pressure from IBM (IBM: Research, Estimates) in the corporate market, but it now faces serious competition from Microsoft (MSFT: Research, Estimates) on the lower end of the market and in the Windows space. Though Microsoft’s database product, […]
Sunday, June 29th, 2003 by Mark Rittman
There’s a thread going on at OTN about the Analytic Workspace Support in OWB. The original poster asks whether OWB can actually build and populate an AW, and when the required 9.2.0.3 database patch is coming out. Shauna O’Boyle has responded and there’s some useful pointers and updates which I’m reproducing.
The Oracle 9i 9.2.0.3 patch, […]
Sunday, June 29th, 2003 by Mark Rittman
There’s a good online guide to implementing type 2 SCDs using OWB on OTN. We’ve come up with a number of manual ways of doing this for a couple of clients using OWB and some custom procedures; this seems like another approach that could be useful.
Sunday, June 29th, 2003 by Mark Rittman
“Six years ago, Larry Ellison predicted that his newest product would rewrite the rules of corporate IT. We’re still waiting.”
Sunday, June 29th, 2003 by Mark Rittman
When I put this site together I had a look around blogger.com and technorati.com to see if anyone else was blogging on working at Oracle, or developing using Oracle tools. So far i’ve found virtually nothing. There’s many, many Microsoft blogs around, the best of which, ‘Better Living Through Software’, ‘Gav’s Ramble’, ‘Addicted To Digital […]
