(Bert Scalzo) I often react to new Oracle releases like Steve Martin acted in the movie “The Jerk” when the new phone books arrive. I cannot help but to get excited about all the new technology that Oracle routinely delivers. But with the release of Oracle 10g, that enthusiasm cannot be overstated.

(Christopher Jones and Alison Holloway) Oracle Database XE is an entry-level, small footprint starter database. It is free to download, develop, and deploy, and you can freely distribute it with your applications. There are no database licencing costs!

(Chethan Kumar, Eric Szewczyk and Mahmoud Ahmadian) Altiris and Dell offer an integrated solution for bare-metal Adeployment of Dell PowerEdge servers that leverages the Dell OpenManage Deployment Toolkit (DTK). Altiris Deployment Solution for Dell Servers, a component of the Altiris Server Manageme

(Knowledge@Wharton) For Oracle, the past few months have been one big shopping spree. On January 31, 2006, the enterprise software giant purchased longtime rival Siebel Systems, the leading provider of customer relationship management software. On February 14, it acquired Sleepycat, an “open source”

(Sachin Garg) Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) is a fascinating technology that can enhance system scalability, availability, and performance in many different ways. However, evaluating or getting hands-on experience with RAC requires expensive hardware to which most DBAs do not have access.

(Marcel Kratochvil) As the business imperative grows for companies to start managing and then publishing their digital image assets. the issue about where those image assets are stored is raised. The initial choice is to store them in a disk file system. This can be seen as the quickest and simplest

(Antony Reynolds) It seems that I get asked a lot about how to set up Oracle Application Server in a High Availability (HA) environment. A couple of weeks ago I was asked to provide someone to assist one of our partners in setting this up in the Enterprise Technology Centre (ETC) in Thames Valley P

(John Ouellette) Wouldn’t it be great to be able to rely on your backups and have full confidence that they will work properly during a disaster or a routine restore operation? Unfortunately, making assumptions about your restores can lead to delays in projects, wasted time, and ultimately data loss

(David Baum) Chris Haddad, manager of the Applications Platform Strategy Service consulting practice at Burton Group, recently talked to Oracle Magazine about how enterprise portals help workers collaborate as part of a modern information infrastructure.

(Arup Nanda) John Q. Public is a very angry man. As the vice president of operations at Insurance R Us, an international life insurance company, he is responsible for making sure the information flows rapidly and accurately among various entities inside the company to provide the adequate levels of