PuSH Bot Marries PubSubHubbub with XMPP

Rich provided a sweet tip this evening that I wanted to share.
PuSH Bot, the weekend project of Mihai Parparita, combines the PubSubHubbub protocol with XMPP to create an easy way to subscribe to any feed served by PuSH via IM, meaning you’ll receive updates in your favorite IM client.
Sweet!

Oh, and there are a lot of [...]

"Jerry" is a spamtard

In fact he may well leave a spam comment on this post, touting his list of bridalwear sites. As “Jerry” in all likelihood doesn’t read English the irony will be lost on him. I’m talking as though “Jerry” is human but probably he is a bot: I seem to remembering reading that somebody [...]

Oracle Validated Integrations Continue to Provide Value to Partners and Customers

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Oracle Validated Integrations Continue to Provide Value to Partners and Customers
More than 500 Validated Integrations Delivered Through Oracle PartnerNetwork Application Integration Architecture for Partners Initiative to Reduce Risk and Cost for Customers
Redwood Shores, CA – August 10, 2009
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Further providing customers a simplified, low-risk and tested path to integrations, Oracle [...]

Leading Analyst Firm Places Oracle in Leader’s Quadrant for Sales Force Automation

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Leading Analyst Firm Places Oracle in Leader’s Quadrant for Sales Force Automation
Redwood Shores, CA – August 10, 2009
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Oracle’s Siebel CRM and Oracle® CRM On Demand are both positioned in the leader’s quadrant of Gartner’s recent “Magic Quadrant for Sales Force Automation”1.
According to Gartner, leaders in Sales Force Automation “demonstrate [...]

Oracle Integrates Oracle’s Value Chain Planning Applications with Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne

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Oracle Integrates Oracle’s Value Chain Planning Applications with Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne
Oracle® Application Integration Architecture Connects Industry Leading ERP to the Information-Driven Value Chain
Redwood Shores, Calif. – August 10, 2009
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Delivering on its Applications Unlimited commitment to continually enhance products, Oracle today announced the Oracle® Application Integration Architecture (AIA) Process Integration Pack [...]

Technology Integration Group Selects Oracle Over SAP, Microsoft and Infor to Drive Enterprise Transformation

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Technology Integration Group Selects Oracle Over SAP, Microsoft and Infor to Drive Enterprise Transformation
Oracle® E-Business Suite Release 12.1 Will Modernize Company’s Service Organization and Provide Real-time, Centralized Information
Redwood Shores, CA – July 30, 2009
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Technology Integration Group (TIG), a premier computer systems integrator and IT solutions consultant, chose Oracle over SAP, Microsoft [...]

Oracle Announces Oracle® TimesTen In-Memory Database 11g and Oracle In-Memory Database Cache 11g

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Oracle Announces Oracle® TimesTen In-Memory Database 11g and Oracle In-Memory Database Cache 11g
Latest Release Enhances Performance, Scalability, Availability and Integration with Oracle Database
Redwood Shores, CA – July 28, 2009

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Today, Oracle announced the availability of Oracle® TimesTen In-Memory Database 11g and Oracle In-Memory Database Cache 11g, the database caching [...]

Nordstrom Selects Oracle® Retail Size Profile Optimization

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Nordstrom Selects Oracle® Retail Size Profile Optimization
Fashion Specialty Retailer to Use Oracle Retail Planning Application to Help Maximize Sales and Improve Customer Service
Redwood Shores, CA – July 28, 2009
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Nordstrom, Inc., a fashion specialty retailer that offers a selection of apparel, shoes, cosmetics and accessories for women, men and children, has selected [...]

OpenWorld .NET Slides, Source Code, 64-bit ODP.NET and 64-bit .NET Stored Procedures

It’s been a very busy news week! As promised, here are all of the .NET and Windows OpenWorld slidedecks and sourcecode including the .NET and Oracle Hands on Lab.
Another big piece of news: we just released the beta of the 64-bit ODAC (for both x64 and Itanium). I know many of you have been waiting [...]

PL/SQL Debugger in Visual Studio Configuration

We just released ODAC 10.2.0.2.20, and one of the new features included in the production version of the Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio .NET is a fully integrated PL/SQL Debugger that works with both Visual Studio .NET 2003 as well as Visual Studio 2005. It also supports most Oracle datatypes in the debugger including [...]