(Sean Dillon) XML is a great way to share data between systems, organizations, and disparate technologies, but once you’ve received that XML, what do you do with it? In this column, I review how you can store the contents of your XML documents in relational tables.

(Barbara Darrow) For a guy who has spent considerably more than $10 billion in the last year or so, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison remains a cool cookie.

(Yves Coene and The Hoa Nguyen) Buoyed by maturing Web service standards, more and more organizations are using Web services in a collaborative environment. BPEL is fast becoming the platform for orchestrating these Web services for inter-enterprise collaboration. BPEL offers the compelling benefits

(Glen Kunene) At its OpenWorld Conference, which combined for the first time with the PeopleSoft Connect conference, Oracle unveiled its vision for Project Fusion, which promises to push forward the best features from its combined PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, and Siebel product suites. The enterprise

(Stacy Cowley) Oracle has acquired Global Logistics Technologies Inc. (G-Log) for an undisclosed sum. The company plans to use G-Log’s logistics software to boost its supply-chain management technology offerings.

(Barney Beal) Oracle Corp. said it has developed the first applications to be released on its Oracle Fusion Middleware. (R)

(Scott Stephens) When designing a database table structure, it’s important to choose an efficient strategy for storing a logical Boolean that you can use in many programming environments. (Although Oracle doesn’t come with a Boolean datatype for database columns, it does have a Boolean datatype in P

(Ron Hardman) The project’s development cycle was nearly complete, and the whole team felt as though it’d been through the ringer. It was six months of late nights, excruciatingly long meetings, rah-rah speeches delivered by Jerry, the company president, and countless cups of coffee. In just two

(Kevin Geminiuc) Many organizations are moving from an object-oriented paradigm for managing business processes toward a service-oriented approach; indeed, services are becoming the fundamental elements of application development. At the same time, Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) has

(Lewis R Cunningham) Oracle, the database, already supports PL/SQL. It also supports Java internally. Using ODBC, JDBC or OCI, it supports most other languages. So why make a big deal out of PHP support? What’s so great about PHP? What is ZEND?