EDS drives down its costs with the Oracle Grid

EDS is a leading global technology services company delivering business solutions to its clients. Hear how EDS’ small steps towards the grid has resulted in one of the largest commercial database grids in the world.

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2010 – The Year We Make Contact

On New Year's Eve it occurred to me that we had now crossed the years to not one but two of Arthur C. Clarke's sci-fi novels – 2001 and 2010.
Of course on one hand we are no where near as advanced in manned space flight as described in those books.
But I think there is [...]

EDS drives down its costs with the Oracle Grid

EDS is a leading global technology services company delivering business solutions to its clients. Hear how EDS’ small steps towards the grid has resulted in one of the largest commercial database grids in the world.

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San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Enables Billing Services for 172,000 Water and Wastewater Customers with Oracle® Utilities Customer Care and Billing

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San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Enables Billing Services for 172,000 Water and Wastewater Customers with Oracle® Utilities Customer Care and Billing
Redwood Shores, CA – August 6, 2009
News Facts
The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC), a department of the City and County of San Francisco that provides water, wastewater and municipal [...]

Leading Analyst Firm Positions Oracle® FLEXCUBE in Leaders Quadrant in International Retail Core Banking Report

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Leading Analyst Firm Positions Oracle® FLEXCUBE in Leaders Quadrant in International Retail Core Banking Report
Oracle FLEXCUBE Core Banking and Oracle FLEXCUBE Universal Banking Applications Recognized for Vision and Ability to Execute
Redwood Shores, CA – August 5, 2009
News Facts
Gartner, Inc. has positioned Oracle FLEXCUBE Core Banking and Oracle FLEXCUBE Universal Banking in the [...]

Oracle Recognizes Customers with First Annual Identity Management Innovation Awards

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Oracle Recognizes Customers with First Annual Identity Management Innovation Awards
Cisco and Visa Take Top Honors for Their Identity and Access Management Initiatives
Redwood Shores, Calif, July 30, 2009
News Facts
Recognizing outstanding identity and access management initiatives, Oracle announced that customers Cisco and Visa are the recipients of its first annual Identity Management Innovation Awards.
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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
News Facts
Technology Integration Group (TIG), a premier computer systems integrator and IT solutions consultant, chose Oracle over SAP, Microsoft [...]

Improving performance in your ODP.NET application

Mark Williams wrote a nice article for Oracle Magazine recently pointing out 3 of the most important ways you can get better performance with your ODP.NET application.
To summarize – his 3 tips were:

Use a Connection Pool – enabled by setting an ODP.NET connection string attribute. Make sure to have a sufficiently high minimum pool size.
Use [...]

Visit us at MS Teched in Boston

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Oracle is a silver sponsor this year at Microsoft Tech Ed in Boston (June 11-16). Come visit myself and my colleagues at the Oracle booth (booth #516) and we will give you a hands on demo.
Technologies being demoed by the product experts [...]

SOA Suite 10.1.3.3 patchset and "lost" instances

It has been a long time since I have blogged the last time – mainly due to the huge amount of miles flown over the last 2 months.
After being in europe for conferences where I did evangelism on our next generation infrastructure, that is based on Service Component Architecture, it was time to revisit my [...]