Berkeley DB Java Edition Group Welcomes Sun

Finally(!) we can talk about the Sun acquisition. From the point of view of the Berkeley DB Java Edition group, this is really good news. For the past several years we’ve had a good relationship with many groups at Sun, but there was always the little issue of being in two different companies standing between [...]

UX Management: The “One Thing” Needed to Move UX to a Position of Strategic Relevance

Laurie Pattison, Senior Director, User Experience, Oracle In my travels and conversations with other UX professionals, it seems that no matter what interesting design or research topic we’re discussing, there’s always a point in the conversation when the subject moves from the actual topic to how to deliver it given organizational structure or dynamics. There [...]

New Job Leads to Exciting New Topics. A Preview of Upcoming Blogs.

One of the benefits of working for a remote database services provider is the caliber of people you get to work with. We have some very talented people here at Contemporary Technologies (CTi) and I fully intend to leverage their expertise to improve the quality of this blog. In addition, I now have access to [...]

Is Connecting to Multiple Directories Really Easy?

Back from vacation and finding a whole army of people writing about virtual directory while I’m gone. Working backwards, I saw the following quote from Jeff Bohren in his entry about vendor independence in response to a few posts from our own Nishant Kaushik: BTW, having written code that supports multiple LDAP vendors at four [...]

Is Connecting to Multiple Directories Really Easy?

Back from vacation and finding a whole army of people writing about virtual directory while I’m gone. Working backwards, I saw the following quote from Jeff Bohren in his entry about vendor independence in response to a few posts from our own Nishant Kaushik: BTW, having written code that supports multiple LDAP vendors at four [...]

Is Connecting to Multiple Directories Really Easy?

Back from vacation and finding a whole army of people writing about virtual directory while I’m gone. Working backwards, I saw the following quote from Jeff Bohren in his entry about vendor independence in response to a few posts from our own Nishant Kaushik: BTW, having written code that supports multiple LDAP vendors at four [...]