Microsoft Growth Expected to Accelerate: UBS Analyst

Apr 20, 2012 | No Comments

[at CNBC] – Microsoft’s earnings and revenue growth is expected to accelerate on the heels of its earnings beat Thursday, a UBS analyst said.

Oracle Spring ’12 Federal Development Update

Apr 20, 2012 | No Comments

I didn’t attend, but there was an Oracle Federal Financial Briefing on 17-Apr in Reston where information was shared about some of the upcoming GTAS enhancements and target patch release dates.  Personally, besides focusing on our Fed R12.1.3 stabil…

Antivirus Researchers Confirm: Flashback Still Infects More Than 500,000 Macs

Apr 20, 2012 | No Comments

[at Forbes] – Dr. Web’s count of Macs actively running Flashback over the last weeks, showing more than half a million machines still infected. On Wednesday, I wrote that antivirus firms disagreed by enormous margins on how many Macs remain infected by…

Of the six superheroes in The Avengers, I would be_______________because________…

Apr 20, 2012 | No Comments

Of the six superheroes in The Avengers, I would be_______________because_______________. http://bit.ly/I0zakqThe Avengers. Marvel. Oracle. Explore the Superpowered Data Centerwww.oracle.comThe Avengers. Explore the Superpowered Data Center

Is IBM Running Into a Buzz Saw?

Apr 20, 2012 | No Comments

[at Motley Fool] – This stock catches my eye — and maybe it should catch yours, too.

I sed awk!

Apr 20, 2012 | No Comments

Oracle DBAs most often find themselves working on Unix platforms and therefore some familiarity with Unix scripting is helpful. Utilities like “sed,” “awk,” and “grep” are often used in Unix scripts. Sed is a “stream editor” which filte…

Resource Manager wait events

Apr 20, 2012 | No Comments

You many wonder why you should care about Oracle Resource Manager wait events.  You should care because every Oracle 11g database uses Resource Manager by default during the maintenance windows.  So, even if you have not intentionally configured RM …

CVE-2012-0053 Information Disclosure vulnerability in Apache HTTP Server

Apr 20, 2012 | No Comments

CVE DescriptionCVSSv2 Base ScoreComponentProduct and Resolution

CVE-2012-0053 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls vulnerability
4.3
Apache HTTP Server 2.0 and 2.2

Solaris 10
SPARC: 120543-28 X86: 120544-28
Solaris 11
11/11 SRU 6.6

This …

Webcast Replay Available: Managing Your Oracle E-Business Suite with Oracle Enterprise Manager

Apr 20, 2012 | No Comments

I am pleased to release the replay and presentation for the latest ATG Live Webcast: 

Managing Your Oracle E-Business Suite with Oracle Enterprise Manager (Presentation)

Angelo Rosado, Product Manager, ATG Development discussed us…