Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Oracle Fusion Middleware - Driving Business Efficiency and Expansion

The Oracle Fusion Middleware Forum is coming to a city near you. Don't miss this special event for IT executives and managers, exploring the impact of IT planning and execution on your corporate strategy.
Join application infrastructure thought leaders and your peers for a range of executive keynotes and technical sessions providing strategies and patterns for maximizing operational efficiency and addressing business expansion. Learn from customer case studies and get in-depth information on the Oracle Fusion Middleware product strategy.
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Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - October 2008

A Critical Patch Update is a collection of patches for multiple security vulnerabilities. It also includes non-security fixes that are required (because of interdependencies) by those security patches. Critical Patch Updates are cumulative, except as noted below, but each advisory describes only the security fixes added since the previous Critical Patch Update. Thus, prior Critical Patch Update Advisories should be reviewed for information regarding earlier accumulated security fixes. Please refer to Critical Patch Updates and Security Alerts for information about Oracle Security Advisories.
Due to the threat posed by a successful attack, Oracle strongly recommends that customers apply fixes as soon as possible. This Critical Patch Update contains 36 new security fixes across all products.
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Thursday, October 9, 2008

Hyperion, AIA, RMAN, Identify Assurance, Total Recall, Troubleshooting

Hyperion

Tim Tow's Hyperion, the best blog on the subject, has a PDF of the 11.1.1 installation available.

My second favorite Hyperion blog, Look Smarter Than You Are, has a pointer to some great utilities from the OLAP Underground.

Innovation and AIA

Some kind words about AIA and the key to Oracle as a company: Innovation, over at ZDNet.

Better Life Through RMAN

How to move from Windows to Linux using RMAN over at Alejandro Vargas' blog.

Identity Assurance

Got buzzwords? Here's a new one: Identity Assurance. No, it doesn't mean getting out a mirror at customs and telling the agents: 'Yes, that's me alright'. It's over at the Talking Identity blog.

Total Recall

Richard Foote has some good things to say about Oracle Total Recall in 11g over in his blog.

Troubleshooting

And so it begins...the pleasant flood of material from Open World. Here's Tanel Poder's material on Oracle Troubleshooting.
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Oracle OpenWorld Videos on YouTube


Check out interviews with tech experts and Oracle execs, including Charles Phillips, Chuck Rozwat, and Ed Abbo, and see some of the local sights at Moscone Center in San Francisco.
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Oracle Appcasts


Siebel AppCast

Empower Siebel 8.0 users with new simple-to-use rules engines Play! (7 min.)
September 4, 2008
Listen to Rick Watts, an experienced Siebel and Haley Authority developer and Sr. Configuration Specialist from Oracle Advanced Customer Services discuss best practices for utilizing the Haley rules engine in a Siebel implementation project.

See All latest Oracle podcasts:

Live with Cliff Godwin:
Regulatory Compliance for Public Organizations—Achieving Stronger Controls and Better Management Practices
(10 min.)
Executive Update: Oracle's Strategy for Industries
(13 min.)
Oracle's Shared Services Model Can Bring You Tremendous Savings
(11 min.)
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Lifetime Support Policy Brochure Updates

Global Support is pleased to announce the September edition of the three Lifetime Support Policy brochures. They are available on Oracle.com at no charge.
In the Technology Brochure, the September edition includes the following updated Support guidelines and information:

Support Policies for New Acquisitions:
Oracle Exadata Storage Server Software Release: Support for Exadata Storage Server software has been included in this edition of the Lifetime Support Policy brochure. For additional general information or additional support-specific information please select these hyperlinks.

Support Policy Updates for Product Releases – None this month

In the Applications Brochure, the September edition includes the following updated Support guidelines and information:
Support Policies for New Acquisitions

Oracle’s AdminServer Releases

Support Policy Updates for Product Releases

Oracle’s BEA Releases
Oracle Communications (formerly MetaSolv) Releases:
MessageQ 5.0
Salt 2
Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management (BRM) releases:
6.2 SP4 – Extended Support changed to Dec 2010
6.5 SP2 – Extended Support changed to Dec 2011
Oracle Communications (formerly MetaSolv) Releases:
Objectel 2.7 – Premier Support changed to Dec 2009
MetaSolv Solution 6.0.15 - Premier Support changed to Dec 2009
MetaSolv Solution 6.0.14 – Premier Support changed to Dec 2008
MetaSolv Solution ASR 34.0 – Premier Support changed to Aug 2008
MetaSolv Solution ASR 35 – Premier Support changed to Dec 2008 and Extended Support changed to Not Offered
MetaSolv Solution ASR 36 – Premier Support changed to Not Offered
MetaSolv Solution LSR 9.2 and LSR 9.3 – Premier Support changed to May 2009
MetaSolv Solution LSR 10.0 - Extended Support changed to Not Offered
Oracle Communications Service and Subscriber Management 3.1.6 – Premier Support changed to Sep 2009
Oracle Communications Service and Subscriber Management 3.1.7 – Premier Support changed to Dec 2008
Oracle Communications Service and Subscriber Management 3.1.9 – New Release
MetaSolv Solution 6.0.16 – New Release
MetaSolv Solution ASR 37 – New Release

There were no changes made to the Retail Brochure this month.

The next update will be available October 31. The Lifetime Support Policy brochures are available for customers on Oracle.com
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Thursday, October 2, 2008

The Machine, Tom Kyte, Community, VMWare, ADF, JDE, Workflow, APEX, Opinion, BI, Security, Oracle Magazine


The Machine

The HP Oracle Database Machine, that is. Massive throughput, speeds that cause the time-space continuum to go: Yowza!. Here's a link with a picture over at Kevin Closson's blog. And another link over at the Oracle Exadata blog, another at Mike Ault's blog, and yet one more here. It's big, nearly two million bucks, worth every penny of it, and I'm going to get one to keep track of my video collection.


Tom Kyte Podcast

Tom Kyte always has something interesting to say, and his blog links to a podcast of his interview with the editor or Oracle magazine.

Oracle Community

Lots of updates at Eddie Awad's Oracle Community site, as described in this blog entry. Drop in if you haven't checked it out in a while.

VMWare Tip – Installing an OS from ISO images

Playing fast and loose with VMWare, ISO images, and OS binaries, all over at the Oracle Apps Blog.

ADF

They're out there, scribbling away, archiving, preparing, editing....it's the presenters from Open World last week, and 
here's an early release, on Oracle ADF 11g validation, over at the Dive Into Oracle ADF blog.

Kiran Dasari's Contributions:

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 9.0 Generally Available

23 September 2008


Audience: JD Edwards EnterpriseOne & JD Edwards World

What is being announced?
JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 9.0 with Tools Release 8.98 will be generally available the week of September 22, 2008.

For information on what is included and upgrade tasks, visit http://www.peoplesoft.com/corp/en/iou/upgrade/e1_upgrd_resources_evaluate.jsp
JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 9.0 can be downloaded from edelivery.oracle.com


Workflow

Workflow is a key item, a core schematic like the panels of a powerplant, time, money, work, results, profit, all are tied into workflow, and the product of the same name. Here's the start of a series over at the AMIS Technology Blog on setting up Workflow.

APEX Book

According to John's Blog, his new Pro Oracle Application Express book is shipping.

Opinion: Metered Bandwidth

There is indeed, no free lunch, or at least there hasn't been since some legendary bars of the early 20th century where free lunch was offered....if you bought beer. So there wasn't even a free lunch then. So now we are at a point where people are playing online games, watching movies, using the Internet as a phone and...no free lunch, the ISPs are moving toware metered bandwidth, the subject of this posting over at the Life After Coffee blog.

BI Upgrade to 10.1.3.4

Upgraded to 10.1.3.4? Having problems? Make sure you have a look at this link at Tim Dexter's Oracle BI Publisher Blog.

Backdoor Dealings

Sneaking about to mess with SYSDBA, and related nefarious and duplicitous activities are covered over at Oracle Forensics blog in this posting.

Oracle Magazine

Have you checked out Oracle Magazine lately? Here's a link to the latest issue online.
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