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There’s a good article currently featured on OTN about using Extended Trace to diagnose performance problems. Written by Cary Millsap and entitled “Diagnosing Performance Problems”, it’s worth taking a look at if you’re about to start looking at Extended Trace and the 10046 event.

eWeek via Slashdot reports that Oracle are about support Mozilla on Linux as a client for the e-Business Suite. According to the article; "Dave Dargo, vice president of Oracle’s Linux Program Office and the Performance Engineering team within its Platform Technologies Division, told eWEEK.com that Oracle will look to expand its 1.5-year-old Linux support program [...]

Interesting article from Hyperion on JOLAP and XMLA. Hyperion of course have a foot in both camps (see this article by Seth Grimes, and my previous summary of the XMLA vs. JOLAP situation) and this article sets out their position on how the two competing APIs fit together. According to the article; “Hyperion views JOLAP [...]

“A pattern pops out when you examine the big news items from 2003: It’s mostly about putting things together. Mergers. Application integration. Grid computing. These and other trends inherently have to do with finding affinities and creating a whole that’s worth more than the sum of its parts. Here are the dozen trends we identified [...]

From the Oracle Universal Installer 2.3 and upwards, it is possible to install Oracle software using HTTP, opening up the possibility of carrying out installations over a firewall. This OTN technical note explains how it’s all done.