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Ben Kitchens asks: “I am just starting out as a DBA. I have a question about Oracle 8i. I’m not sure how exactly to have two or more Databases on the instance and then move between them? If you could help that would be wonderful.” Sure. You can only have one database active on one [...]

Oracle Collaboration Suite Release 2 is now available for download, initially for Unix and Linux and with Windows to follow. According to CNET News.com, “The latest version of Oracle’s Collaboration Suite, released Thursday, targets companies looking for lower-cost alternatives to IBM’s Lotus Notes and Microsoft’s Exchange, according to Oracle executives. ” This latest release of [...]

According to The Register on Larry Ellison, “there are four types of technology company right now: companies with products based on a single area of functionality; single product companies; best-of-breed vendors; and integrated suites. But only one type is going to survive”.

An interesting day today for Oracle. According to Reuters, “Software maker Oracle Corp. on Wednesday said Chief Marketing Officer Mark Jarvis and George Roberts, the company’s former head of North American sales, had resigned. Marketing will now report to Executive Vice President Charles Phillips, a former star software analyst at Morgan Stanley who joined Oracle [...]

Useful tip for OWB9.2: When moving a project from OWB9.0.4. to 9.2., you don’t need to go through the metadata upgrade process as you have in the past. All you need to do is export OWB9.0.4 metadata to an .MDL file as normal, then import it directly into OWB9.2.