By Michael Miley – Grid-based “computing as utility” is poised to take off. Here’s how Oracle—and Oracle Database 10g—is making it possible.

By Lisa Vaas – The long-anticipated unveiling of Oracle Corp.’s grid vision at OracleWorld here Monday was greeted by the rollout of new products to support Oracle databases, including extended data protection from DataMirror’s iReflect high-availability software and extended cross-platform support

By Robert Westervelt – Did you hear the one about 10G? It’s the price users will pay per seat for Oracle’s new database. Get it? That’s a joke. All right, it’s not a gut-buster, but it does represent the sort of satire sometimes generated when IT companies attempt to convey new strategies and direct

By Murthy Mamidanna – We often have a need to locate missing primary key sequence numbers. The miss of sequence could have happened either because the cache option was left at default value (i.e., 20) at the time of creation of the sequence or through a drop of records (due to exceptions) by a progr

By Chris O’Brien – As 20,000 Oracle software users gather this week at the annual OracleWorld conference in San Francisco, the Redwood Shores software giant is trying to refocus the technology world’s attention on its core database and application products.

By Ellen O’Brien – OracleWorld 2003 opens Monday at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, Calif., and the five-day technology event comes at a time when Oracle is under intense scrutiny within the IT industry.

By Barney Beal – In its second online “town meeting” aimed at getting customers to back its acquisition attempt, Oracle Corp. once again pledged to continue support of PeopleSoft Inc. products, should its hostile takeover bid prove successful.

By Michael S. Mimoso – Lithonia Lighting, a Georgia manufacturer of commercial lighting equipment, switched to Linux to cure a memory-mapping problem Windows experienced during an Oracle implementation.

By Dawn Kawamoto – Recently unsealed internal e-mails from Oracle executives outline the company’s strategy and thoughts in its effort to acquire PeopleSoft in a hostile takeover.

By Charles Babcock – Application Server 10G will deviate from the academic approach to grid computing, where a central server “scavenges for unused processing cycles” from computers on the network.