Oracle 10g, 10gAS Now Available For Linux, Unix

Friday, February 20th, 2004 by Mark Rittman

All of the Oracle 10g infrastructure components are now available for download on OTN, for Linux, HP-UX and Sun Solaris. Oracle Database 10g (10.1.0.2) Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control (10.1.0.2) Oracle Application Server 10g (9.0.4) Oracle Developer Suite 10g (9.0.4) I’ve just finished putting in the Oracle Database 10g on my Red Hat 9.0 [...]

Oracle News From The KOMTAR, Penang

Tuesday, February 17th, 2004 by Mark Rittman

Just popped into an internet cafe in the KOMTAR, Penang, so it’s a good opportunity to update the blog with a couple of news items… Chuck Phillips, who along with Safra Catz is one of the new Co-presidents at Oracle, is speaking at the next Peoplesoft User Group regional conference in San Diego, according to [...]

Agile Development Methodologies For DBAs

Monday, February 16th, 2004 by Mark Rittman

Ever since an old colleague of mine mentioned that his Oracle development team were using Scrum, an agile development methodology, to run and plan their projects, I’ve been looking out for an opportunity to use agile methods in my line of work. Interestingly, there’s a new article on OTN by Scott Ambler entitled “Agile Development [...]

Thoughts on Matthew Symonds “Softwar”

Sunday, February 15th, 2004 by Mark Rittman

One of the books I’ve been reading whilst on holiday is “Softwar : An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle” by Matthew Symonds. I’m not usually one for biographies of Larry Ellison, but Amazon were offering it for 1 penny (I’m not joking, it was probably a pricing error) and I thought it’d be [...]

Still On Holiday

Saturday, February 14th, 2004 by Mark Rittman

Well, I have to say, the weather and food in Penang is wonderful. I’m staying at the Bay View Beach Resort in Batu Ferengghi and apart from the occaisional check of my email, it’s been a pretty relaxing few days so far. Off to the pool now…

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