http://www.vesterli.com Watching Oracle Development Tools Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:46:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'll be speaking at the Oracle User Group Norway Spring Conference, April 14 to 16. This great conference takes place on a cruise ship sailing from Oslo to Kiel and back. My topics will be What's Hot and What's Not - An Overview of Oracle Development Tools Forms to ADF - Live! They've ... http://www.vesterli.com/2010/02/24/conference-in-norway-in-april/ The third thing I wish for from Oracle in 2010 is a free ADF runtime license. I believe that the current licensing is limiting ADF to existing Oracle enterprise customers, and that's too bad. I am not looking for Oracle to make ADF Open Source - but just to get the ... http://www.vesterli.com/2010/01/29/things-i-wish-from-oracle-in-2010-3-set-adf-free/ The second thing I wish for from Oracle in 2010 is that Larry calls off the license sharks. It seems that Oracle is currently working agressively to maximize the license fee from existing customers, and customers are unhappy. Here in Denmark, the last month has seen the media reporting: Oracle taking ... http://www.vesterli.com/2010/01/17/things-i-wish-from-oracle-in-2010-2-call-off-the-license-sharks/ The first thing I wish for in 2010 is a WebCenter standard edition product at a reasonable price. Currently, WebCenter is available as WebCenter Suite - which is a massive bundle with everything, and a corresponding massive price tag ($125,000 per CPU). There is also a WebCenter Services license, but at ... http://www.vesterli.com/2010/01/10/things-i-wish-from-oracle-in-2010-1-webcenter-standard-edition/ At the UKOUG conference in Birmingham, I gave a presentation entitled "Life After Forms" for people wondering what to do about their Forms applications. The reason that people consider this is of course that the talk in the Oracle community tend to concentrate on the two new options: ADF Faces ... http://www.vesterli.com/2009/12/22/the-death-of-forms/ Oracle has for a long time offered "Statements of Direction" outlining their strategy in various areas. One the statements I have been following with interest is the one that applies to Oracle Forms and Reports. The latest version of this reassuringly says about Forms and Reports: "Oracle has no plan to desupport these ... http://www.vesterli.com/2009/11/22/lawyers-ate-oracles-commitment-to-oracle-forms/ While Oracle continues to officially support Forms, the installation procedure for Forms 11g makes you wonder if they are not secretly wishing that all us old Forms programmers would just go away. If your are a developer trying to take Oracle Forms 11g for a quick spin, you know you are ... http://www.vesterli.com/2009/11/15/oracle-trying-to-kill-forms/ In Europe, many people love Open Source with its connotations of sharing and village co-operatives. On the other hand, many Europeans don't like the big, successful American companies (witness the ritual McDonalds-bashing). This emotional preference for Open Source to big American companies is why the EU competition authorities have decided to ... http://www.vesterli.com/2009/11/11/eu-will-force-mysql-out-of-oraclesun-merger/ One victim of Oracle's increased focus on their applications business is the free Oracle Express Edition (XE) database. Still shipping in version 10g release 2 from 2005, Oracle has said that a new XE version will not be out for a year or two. I originally believed that Oracle released this version ... http://www.vesterli.com/2009/11/03/no-free-lunch-or-database-from-oracle/ Did you see the SOA Manifesto? It seems that software vendors and SOA luminaries feel the need to fire up some enthusiasm for SOA, so they are trying to replicate the success that the Agile Manifesto had in defining and focusing Agile development. Unfortunately, the manifesto is a bit of a muddle, maybe ... http://www.vesterli.com/2009/10/28/soa-manifesto-fails-to-inspire/