Seesmic (@seesmic) released major updates to their Seesmic Web client, including support for more services, HTML5 desktop notifications for Chrome users and lots more speed. Seesmic Blog: Seesmic Web – Now with Facebook and LinkedIn Support, Desktop notifications, and Faster than ever! If you read here, you might recall that I switched to Brizzly nearly [...]
Hey, have you heard? The Java Road Trip bus may be stopping at a city near you this summer, starting June 14. And your peeps at Oracle Technology Network have donated some goodies. What is the Java Road Trip? Basically, we have packed a rock-star bus with demos (Java FX, Oracle ADF, Java EE 6, [...]
Hey, have you heard? The Java Road Trip bus may be stopping at a city near you this summer, starting June 14. And your peeps at Oracle Technology Network have donated some goodies. What is the Java Road Trip? Basically, we have packed a rock-star bus with demos (Java FX, Oracle ADF, Java EE 6, [...]
With Release 17, we have a few visual and functional enhancements that make using CRM On Demand that much better for us all. I’ll mention a few here, but to get the full outline of these upgrades, I recommend taking 10 minutes to view the Release 17 Usability Transfer of Information course. First and foremost, [...]
How many flavors of PaaS do we need? PaaS for business apps PaaS for toy apps (simple form-based CRUD) and simple business front ends (e.g. restaurant web sites) PaaS for games, mash-ups and social apps PaaS for multimedia delivery and live streams PaaS for high performance and scientific computing PaaS for spamming, hacking and other [...]
In our BI EE – Essbase session in OOW, we covered 2 important use cases in bringing BI EE and Essbase together. They are 1. Horizontal Federation 2. Vertical Federation There is one more use case that only BI EE as a reporting tool can do on an Essbase source(not possible in Smartview or any [...]
I’ve been meaning to write up my thoughts from this years IOUG Collaborate event. Ian Abramson, the president of the IOUG, has a nice series of write ups on the event itself – starting with day 1 through day 3 and then a wrap-up post. He describes it as a three day event – but [...]
I’ve had a week back at the office following Oracle Open World in San Francisco and had some time to reflect on all that went on. If you have been following various blogs and write ups about the event you’ll have heard about the various dinners bloggers or Ace’s attended, which, while they may seem [...]
Many of you know that I came to Oracle through the acquisition of OctetString. You may not realize that I co-founded OctetString in early 2001, which was during the last downturn. In fact, we were negotiating our first software sale when the 9/11 terrorist attacks occurred. So I read with great interest Jason Calacanis’s email [...]
Many of you know that I came to Oracle through the acquisition of OctetString. You may not realize that I co-founded OctetString in early 2001, which was during the last downturn. In fact, we were negotiating our first software sale when the 9/11 terrorist attacks occurred. So I read with great interest Jason Calacanis’s email [...]