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"Oracle Database Performance Management", Gaja Krishna Vaidyanatha :
"Oracle Performance management can be classified into 2 types – proactive and
reactive. Proactive performance management involves designing and developing the
performance architecture for a system, during the early stages of an
implementation. This involves hardware selection, performance & capacity
planning, mass storage system selection, I-O sub-system configuration & tuning
(i.e. RAID), [...]

One of the more interesting features coming with Microsoft ‘Longhorn’ is
Microsoft Shell, a.k.a. ‘MSH’ or by its codename ‘Monad’. Monad is a Unix-like
command shell for Longhorn that aims to be as interactive as KSH or BASH, as
programmable as Ruby or Perl, but with an object orientated base in Microsoft
.NET. This

blog posting by Wesner Moise sums [...]

Looking
to find out what new features are included in the 10g (9.0.4) release of
Oracle
Application Server?

This Oracle white paper details the new features in AS10g (9.0.4), and has a
section at the end on additional features in the 9.0.4.1 patchset (patch #3784229
on metalink, currently available for
Solaris, AIX, HP-UX and Linux x86, Windows version presumably to follow).

The New York Times: "May I buy your beloved pet dog, just so I can take
him around back and shoot him? That’s how the chief executive of PeopleSoft,
Craig Conway, described Oracle’s hostile bid for his company, which Oracle
intends to use to move PeopleSoft customers to its own software.
Oracle’s takeover tale has entered its 16th [...]

This
isn’t one I’ve come across before.

"Oracle Wait Interface: A Practical Guide to Performance Diagnostics & Tuning"
by Kirtikumar Deshpande and K. Gopalakrishnan is

described by Amazon as "Troubleshoot, tune, and optimize your Oracle
database efficiently and successfully every time. This book explains how to take
full advantage of the revolutionary Oracle Wait Interface to quickly
pinpoint–and solve–core problems and bottlenecks, [...]