Archive Aug 19, 2012
Aiming for Long Term Growth
[at Motley Fool] – believe that Salesforce has plenty of growth aspects with the continued success of its Service Cloud and increasing traction of its Marketing Cloud. Furthermore, I see the recent acquisition of Buddy …
Hey Oracle and Google, What Ever Happened to Old-Fashioned PR?
[at Forbes] – I do think companies in general should go further in encouraging their spokespeople to be more proactive, maybe even empower them to deliver the colorful and offbeat quote now and then and how, oh I don’t know, Larry Page did seem to fu…
Higher performance + simpler management + lower costs = Easy server consolidatio…
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Blackboard’s New Platform Strategy
A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to attend the BbWorld conference and conduct a private interview with Chief Technology Officer and President of Academic Platforms Ray Henderson.1 What I learned is that the company is embarking on a fairly radica…
Compression Units – 5
The Enkitec Extreme Exadata Expo (E4) event is over, but I still have plenty to say about the technology. The event was a great success, with plenty of interesting speakers and presentations. As I said in a previous note, I was particularly keen to hea…
[$$] Getting a Reprieve from Capital Punishment
[at The Wall Street Journal] – Getting a Reprieve from Capital Punishment
Updating to Exadata 11.2.3.1.1
Just a quick note about change in the way the compute nodes are patched starting from version 11.2.3.1.1. For earlier versions Oracle provided the minimal pack for patching the compute nodes. Starting with version 11.2.3.1.1 Oracle has discontinued the…
ADF unbound – multi coloured tooltips anyone?
This was a client request (can we make it prettier please?) that I originally thought wasn’t worth pursuing as it wasn’t ‘out of the box’ and couldn’t think of an elegant way.But then after a beer on a sunny Saturday afternoon, one does start to “think…
Blackboard Inc.: The Rise of the New “Online Learning” and the Race for Profits
In organizing the resignation of University of Virginia President Theresa Sullivan, Rector Helen E. Dragas may have expressed the concerns of many higher education boards of directors about the impact and effective use of education technology. Other Pr…
Booleans Extreme
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about how to handle booleans in Oracle. in that post, I showed how a simple pl/sql package can help deal with chars and numerics as booelans. In this post, I figure I’ll take it to the extreme and show how you can implemen…
