Oracle + Open Source: November 2006 Archives

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November 27, 2006

Open Insights Interview - William Hurley

This month we have the opportunity to talk with William Hurley aka Whurley, the Chairman of the Open Management Consortium.

In our interview, we discuss open-source, and it's impact on commercial software and solutions, and wrestle head on with some of the concerns people have on both sides of the fence.

William Hurley is the CTO at Qlusters, where he launched the openQRM project. He has been awarded IBM's Master Inventor title, multiple awards for innovation at Apple Computer. Prior to joining Qlusters he was CTO and founder at Symbiot. He holds 11 patents for research and development at IBM, Tivoli Systems, and Apple Computer. He was recently elected Chairman of the Open Management Consortium.

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November 16, 2006

DBA Online talk - November 11, 2006

Do-It-Yourself Monitoring of Oracle with otop

Last weekend I spoke at DBA Online in Edison, NJ.

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Metro Day Talk - Sept 21, 2006

Do -It-Yourself Monitoring of Oracle with otop

Besides being heavily involved in the NY Oracle User Group as the vendor coordinator, I also gave a talk as well. Click here to see the video or on the snapshot above. To learn more about otop and download slides and the software click here.

View video of all of my past lectures on this archive page.

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November 09, 2006

Upcoming Events: Nov/Dec

There are a number of great events coming up in the New York area.

But that's not all we have in store for you. Please also check out:

WSTA's Future Hot Technologies - November 15th

NY Tech Meetup - December 5th

NY Linux User Group - November 15th

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Password Security Tools

There are many commercial tools available for testing password security, but what of the intrepid DBA in need of a day-to-day solution, one they can verify themselves by reviewing the sourcecode?

Pete Finnigan has an excellent post covering some of the newest and best tools out there for Oracle databases.

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November 08, 2006

Oracle's Not The Only Eyes On Open-Source

Oracle is not the only one watching open-source technologies. Competing ERP vendor SAP AG is Keeping a Close Eye on Open-Source.

The gist of the article is an ambivalent conclusion. On the one hand open-source competes and threatens proprietary solutions, but on the other it brings a new opportunity, new challenges, and new directions.

A bit like Anderson Cooper's famous "keeping 'em honest", in the final analysis, the impact of open-source will be a net win for businesses.

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