Contributions by Angela Golla, Infogram Contributor

Hard to believe it, but Oracle Open World is fast approaching. Save $300 for early bird registration by signing up by August 14th. Here is a link for more information:
http://www.oracle.com/us/openworld/index.htm

CPU, OpenWorld, APEX, Security, EBS, Hyperion

CPU - Important Notice

I'm usually strongly advocating applying the security patch sets (CPUs), but this time around we have a vulnerability that shows signs of being more virulent than usual.

Here are a few links about it:

http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE56L66D20090722

http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sec/blog/new-tool-makes-it-easy-to-hack-oracle-database/?cs=34367

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/090722/tecnology/ctech_us_oracle_hackers

Definitely a good idea to apply the July CPU, since it contains a fix for this vulnerability. As to the chief villain of the piece, the exploit author, being named Chris Gates, well, it's spelled differently than my name, and, I would point out, is spelled just like Bill Gates' last name, so kindly cast your aspersions that way.

OpenWorld

Priority Service customers get a limited number of Gold Passes if they are attending OpenWorld The Gold Pass gets you VIP seating and some other nice benefits. Please see your SDM for details. Don't have Priority Service? See your Support Sales rep to get hooked up!

While you're at OpenWorld, don't miss the two sessions from the Oracle Optimizer team.

APEX

Are you an APEX coder? Don't forget to join the Oracle Application Express Development Competition.

Security

The Talking Identity blog has a good real-world example of what happens when you have less than industrial strength identity management: The Twitter Break-In: Anything to learn here?

EBS

This week at the Oracle E-Business Suite blog:

10gR2 10.2.0.4 Certified on Solaris x86-64 and HP Tru64 for EBS 11i

Updated Tips for Debugging Sun JRE + Forms Focus Issues for EBS 11i and 12

New Apps 11i Autoconfig Rollup Patch T Now Available

Hyperion

This posting is at a Hyperion blog, the 'in 2 Hyperion' blog, but it has some wisdom for a lot of IT tasks: Better Business Decisions by Automating Redundant Tasks

My Oracle Support News

MetaLink 3 Upgrade to My Oracle Support
- MetaLink 3 Upgrade to My Oracle Support Information Page (DocID 789174.1)
- MetaLink 3 Upgrade to My Oracle Support FAQ (DocID 789879.1)


Classic MetaLink Retirement
- Classic MetaLink and My Oracle Support Transition Information Page (DocID 841061.1)
- Classic MetaLink and My Oracle Support Transition FAQ (DocID 841055.1)

Contributions by Angela Golla, Infogram Contributor

IDC analysts have written an interesting article on My Oracle Support and trends they see for technical support in general:
http://www.oracle.com/corporate/analyst/reports/services/support/idc-my-oracle-support.pdf

Metalink, Forms, AIA, Open World, EBS, BI, PeopleSoft, General Computing

Metalink

Metalink is being retired, not without controversy, and we want our readers to have access too up to date information on this major event in Oracle Support history. Let's start with Chris Warticki's blog, where you can find an article on Why is Classic Metalink being retired?

Don't forget to make your voice heard by joining the discussion thread over at OTN and voting on the move though these links from from Chris' blog from last week.

Migrating Forms

Need to migrate from Oracle Forms? Lots of choices, and a sometimes complex programming and business choice to be made. There are some useful links to research at Grant's Blog this week.

AIA

Looking for good info sources on AIA? The official AIA blog gives us a batch.

Open World

Time to start planning for Open World. Have you started planning out your sessions? If you're like me at a conference you always wish you had a couple of clones available so you can attend all the sessions of interest at once. But, lacking cloning technology, at least you can plan early. The Structured Data blog, one of our favorites here at the Infogram, is announcing a set of sessions from the Real World Performance Group.

EBS

This week from Oracle E-Business Technology:

Database Vault 11.1.0.7 Certified with Oracle E-Business Suite

10gR2 10.2.0.4 Certified on Solaris x86-64 and HP Tru64 for EBS 11i

Updated Tips for Debugging Sun JRE + Forms Focus Issues for EBS 11i and 12

BI

A good overview of OBI EE over at the Eye on Oracle BI blog.

PeopleSoft

The PeopleSoft Tipster brings us a continutation of their earlier material on REN: A Progress Bar within the REN Window

This article starts from a PeopleSoft application, but is really handy for anyone building a kiosk application: Automating Forced Windows Logout for Kiosks

General Business Computing

Web Worker Daily has a review with links to some free tools for audio and video editing. If you're like me, you don't need this capacity often enough to invest in even a shareware application, so having a free utility available is handy.

Contributions by Angela Golla, Infogram Contributor

Learn how to achieve high performance and availability with Oracle RAC and PHP with this real life example of a mission critical implementation:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/lim-php-rac.html

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