Oracle Press is a marketing label used by McGraw Hill to market its line of Oracle books – the books are not formally written by Oracle Corporation nor are they formally tech edited by Oracle Corporation, although some employees of Oracle Corporation have used McGraw Hill as a publishing company. At least for me, for [...]
Absolutely thrilled that we have announced that MLB is using JavaFX to deliver several fantasy baseball applications for this year’s baseball season. JavaFX enabled MLB.com to leverage its existing Java platform experience and skills to create, maintain and support rich client applications. JavaFX brings control back to development teams by giving them an environment and [...]
Following the Sun-Oracle town hall meeting last week at Oracle headquarters where Larry and Scott made a few exciting announcements, I started getting questions about Oracle’s position vis-a-vis NetBeans. The reason is that Scott (and later Jonathan Schwartz on his blog) mentioned some kind Oracle “adoption and endorsement” of NetBeans. Oracle’s IDE strategy is very [...]
I’m talking about Raj Mattamal’s session up for votes on mix.oracle.com. Raj is a good friend of mine and used to be on the APEX team until he decided to strike out on his own to use APEX to make money in the real world. He is very knowledge about all subjects APEX and this [...]