By Wylie Wong – “Our business has at least stabilized. It’s not getting worse. It’s getting a little better,” Ellison told reporters Tuesday at his company’s Oracle OpenWorld customer conference in San Francisco. “Business is not spectacular, but it’s stable. I personally believe we will start seein
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OpenWorld: Oracle 9i JDeveloper ready for download
By Ed Parry – At OpenWorld, Oracle announced its 9i JDeveloper is ready to go to work. An add-in kit for integrating third party and open-source tools is also on the market.
Oracle 9iAS Discoverer: End User Layer (EUL)
The Discoverer End User Layer (EUL) is a server based, low maintenance, powerful metadata repository and query management engine for data warehouses and on-line transaction processing (OLTP) systems. The EUL engine also automatically performs query redirection to summaries. The EUL is centrally st
Far from Patchy Progress
by Leigh Dodds – The last time the Deviant reported on current events at the Apache XML project was in July 2000, during the turbulent beginnings of the Xerces 2 parser that saw the open source community coming to terms with with working alongside commercial development teams at Sun and IBM. After t
XML signatures: Behind the curtain
Before you commit yourself (or your enterprise) to the world of XML digital signatures, read security author Larry Loeb's examination of the potential authentication risks.
Did You Know? — December 2001
By Hervé Deschamps – Tech Apps 11i, Oracle 9i new cool stuff (developer focus).
Oracle throws weight behind Itanium
By Wylie Wong – Oracle released a version of its database management software designed for Intel’s Itanium processor–a move crucial to the chip’s success, according to hardware executives and analysts.
OpenWorld: Clusters help Oracle sleep at night
By Ed Parry – You just can’t go anywhere at Oracle OpenWorld without hearing two words: “Unbreakable” and “clusters.” The company claims clusters will help it muster the moxie to keep its unbreakable promise and keep the competition in the rear view mirror. Ken Jacobs, VP of Product Strategy Server
Linux Gets SVG Browser Plug-in
by Edd Dumbill – It came as a very pleasant surprise last week to hear that Adobe has released a version of its SVG browser plug-in for Linux and Solaris. Being an habitual Linux user, I had resigned myself to not being able to see SVG on the Web until the Mozilla project had progressed further with
Java configuration with XML Schema
By Marcello Vitaletti – This article shows how to use a Java XML parser together with the Java language reflection features to create an arbitrary set of named objects according to the content of an XML file. Objects created by the proposed initialization process live in a hierarchical, global names