Oracle Information Architecture Explained

Monday, July 5th, 2004 by Mark Rittman

If
you’ve been to an Oracle technology day recently, or read some of the

articles in Oracle Magazine or on
AppsNet,
you’ll probably have heard about “Oracle Information Architecture”. So what is
it, and how is it shaping Oracle’s  product
development and marketing?

Oracle Information Architecture is a model that describes how Oracle’s
products can be used to create a ‘modern, […]

Ellison On Oracle’s Takeover Targets

Sunday, July 4th, 2004 by Mark Rittman

"Whether or not Oracle wins its hostile takeover of
PeopleSoft, one thing is for sure: Larry Ellison is acquisition
hungry."
reports Michael Singer for InternetNews.com. "But the motivation for
doing so may not be to battle top-tier market leader SAP, but rather to take
away mid-market business from Microsoft and IBM, according to analysts surveyed
by internetnews.com. In a video […]

Jim Czuprynski On Cursor Variables As Table Function Arguments

Saturday, July 3rd, 2004 by Mark Rittman

If you read my posting the other week about
streamlining Oracle 9i ETL
with pipelined table functions, you might be interesting in a related
article for DatabaseJournal entitled

"Using Cursor Variables As Function Arguments on Oracle 9i". According to
the synopsis, "Oracle 9i offers the ability to pass data to a PL/SQL function
in the form of a cursor variable. When […]