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Frank Bouma’s a .Net developer who normally works with Microsoft SQL Server. However, he’s recently had to support Oracle 9i for a project he’s working on, and his verdict: “Oracle 9i is amazing”. According to Frank, “What impressed me was Oracle’s feature set. Looking at that feature-set you can only conclude: what Oracle 9i offers [...]

“No one would confuse Microsoft with Oracle. The two software juggernauts have carved out distinctly different markets. So it’s not surprising that the companies have differing policies on releasing information about security vulnerabilities.” writes Edward Hurley in this searchsecurity.com article. “Microsoft tends to release more technical details about its vulnerabilities and put out patches faster. [...]

“Ease of use and accessibility are essential to widespread acceptance of BI, but simplicity has unfortunately come at the cost of analytic depth.” argues Seth Grimes in this IntelligentEnterprise Article. “BI’s online analytic processing (OLAP) focus has meant neglect of valuable approaches to problems that involve nonlinearity, uncertainty, indeterminacy, and time complexities.” Nigel Pendse, of [...]

Eric S. Raymond, he of “The Cathedral And The Bazaar” and “The New Hackers Dictionary” (good), as well as holder of some mad pro-gun and libertarian views (not so good), has a new book out called “The Art Of Unix Programming”. According to the book’s web page; “The Art of Unix Programming attempts to capture the engineering [...]

I had an email through the other day from Guy Mortenson, who I used to work with at Plus Consultancy before he left to find his fortune elsewhere. Guy pointed me in the direction of “Scrum”, a metholodology that his new employers are using to manage Oracle development projects. According to the Scrum website; “Scrum [...]