I almost titled this entry “Cloud + Tivoli = $” in reference to the previous one (“Cloud + proprietary software = ♥”). In that earlier entry, I described the opportunity for Cloud providers to benefit themselves, their customers and software vendors by drastically reducing the frictions involved in using proprietary software (rather than open source [...]
When I left HP for Oracle, in the summer of 2007, a friend made the argument that Cloud Computing (I think we were still saying “Utility Computing” at the time) would be the death of proprietary software.
There was a lot to support this view. EC2 was one year old and its usage was overwhelmingly based [...]
[Editor: This is the fourth of a five-part series on virtualization and cloud topics from Ivo Dujmovic, an architect in our Applications Technology Integration group.]
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is the quintessential public cloud. Oracle has partnered extensively with Amazon Web Services (AWS), and in this article I hope to clarify were we currently [...]
SaaS ISVs do face a choice these days of deploying their software on the cloud – Public or Private. Private Cloud is your infrastructure behind a firewall. The infrastructure can reside in your data center or at a hoster like Savvis. Public Cloud is services like AWS which does not require you to set up [...]
A lot of attention has been focused on technical standards for Cloud computing, especially over the last month (e.g. DMTF incubator announcement). That’s fine, but before we go crazy with detailed technical standards let’s realize that for Cloud computing (of the public variety at least) to take off we’ll need just as much standardization of [...]
Oracle Press
Release
Oracle Expands Its Channel Revenue Management Suite With Oracle® Price Protection
New Offering Developed with Infosys to Realize Value from Faster Price Protection Claims
Redwood Shores, CA – July 13, 2009
News Facts
Aimed at distributors, Oracle today announced the availability of Oracle® Price Protection, a new application that automates the price protection transactional processes and [...]
In a previous OTN thread titled BerkeleyDB and Amazon EC2/S3 questions were raised about using Berkeley DB Java Edition on AWS/EC2. Specifically,
(1) Does JE work on AWS/EC2, and
(2) Can S3 be used as a persistent store for JE.
To follow up on this, recently I have done some work validating JE on AWS and [...]
Wow, been an interesting month for me. I’ve just finished helping a partner of ours detail a large portal for a large customer of theirs, of particular interest was the topic of
Integration with Stellent
Accessibility
Integration with Content Management Systems
Here the customer already uses a content management system and doesn’t want to use the built in [...]
You can always gauge the traction of a particular developer technology based on the braggadocio of its practitioners. At OTN, one of our jobs is to ride the wave of that braggadocio, which after all is simply the most obvious byproduct of passion.
The newest example is the just-announced Oracle Application Express Developer Competition 2009, [...]
OTN Virtual Developer Day: Rich Enterprise Applications (~1100 registrations) is nearly upon us (starts at 8am PT on May 27), so I just want to let you know that I will be live-tweeting the keynote Webcast by Ted Farrell and Steve Harris under the Twitter event tag #OTNVDD.
The keynote will of course be available on [...]