http://www.rittmanmead.com/2006/10/29/back-home-and-reflections-on-open-world/ Delivered Intelligence Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:47:41 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.rittmanmead.com/2006/10/29/back-home-and-reflections-on-open-world/comment-page-1/#comment-1618 Eye on Oracle – A SearchOracle.com Blog » Database 11g: Ho-hum or hurray? Thu, 25 Jan 2007 18:10:37 +0000 http://www.rittmanmead.com/wp2/2006/10/29/back-home-and-reflections-on-open-world/#comment-1618 [...] However, I’ve heard from several people that are underwhelmed by what they’ve seen of 11g so far.  The popular blogger and BI consultant Mark Rittman said: I couldn’t help feeling underwhelmed by the news of Oracle Database 11g. the “Change Assurance” release …. hmmm. I know when 10g was first announced, it seemed more like 9i Release 3, and there do seem to be some nice new features around caching, partitioning and so on, but 11g doesn’t exactly seem groundbreaking so far, nothing in there particularly to get you all excited. [...] [...] However, I’ve heard from several people that are underwhelmed by what they’ve seen of 11g so far.  The popular blogger and BI consultant Mark Rittman said: I couldn’t help feeling underwhelmed by the news of Oracle Database 11g. the “Change Assurance” release …. hmmm. I know when 10g was first announced, it seemed more like 9i Release 3, and there do seem to be some nice new features around caching, partitioning and so on, but 11g doesn’t exactly seem groundbreaking so far, nothing in there particularly to get you all excited. [...]

]]> http://www.rittmanmead.com/2006/10/29/back-home-and-reflections-on-open-world/comment-page-1/#comment-1617 Mark Rittman » Oracle BI & SOA - Hype or Here Now? Sun, 26 Nov 2006 08:29:48 +0000 http://www.rittmanmead.com/wp2/2006/10/29/back-home-and-reflections-on-open-world/#comment-1617 [...] I mentioned in my posting yesterday that, whilst at Open World last week, I was struck by the many conversations I had with people around Oracle business intelligence and Service Orientated Architectures (generally shortened to SOA and, within Oracle, pronounced “So-ah”.) BI was also positioned very much within the Fusion Middleware stack of products, alongside areas such as indentity management, as one of the key pillars of the platform, and many of the BI Suite Enterprise Edition talks made reference to how the suite played well with SOA-enabled applications. So what does this mean then, in practical terms, for us Discoverer, Warehouse Builder and Oracle OLAP developers? Is it just another architecture, or does this represent a step-change in the way we put BI applications together? [...] [...] I mentioned in my posting yesterday that, whilst at Open World last week, I was struck by the many conversations I had with people around Oracle business intelligence and Service Orientated Architectures (generally shortened to SOA and, within Oracle, pronounced “So-ah”.) BI was also positioned very much within the Fusion Middleware stack of products, alongside areas such as indentity management, as one of the key pillars of the platform, and many of the BI Suite Enterprise Edition talks made reference to how the suite played well with SOA-enabled applications. So what does this mean then, in practical terms, for us Discoverer, Warehouse Builder and Oracle OLAP developers? Is it just another architecture, or does this represent a step-change in the way we put BI applications together? [...]

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