http://www.vesterli.com Watching Oracle Development Tools Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:57:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I just completed another great training session held by the Oracle User Experience (UX) team. I am privileged to be part of the Oracle Fusion User Experience Advocates team, so Oracle is putting a lot of effort into teaching us about Fusion UX. One of the topics was the new Financials ... http://www.vesterli.com/2012/01/27/the-future-of-financials-applications-excel/ Oracle lists more than 200 new features in WebLogic 12c - unfortunately, I don't get to use them. The improvements fall in two main categories: Management, Performance and High Availability (HA) Java EE 6 As a developer, management and high availability is "somebody else's problem" - I appreciate the work my app server admin ... http://www.vesterli.com/2011/12/03/weblogic-12c-for-admins-and-java-heads-not-for-me-yet/ As an Oracle Partner, you cannot escape the relentless push from Oracle to become "specialized" in one or more Oracle products. If the purpose of this program had been to ensure that partners actually know what they're talking about, I would have been all in favor. But unfortunately, the main purpose ... http://www.vesterli.com/2011/11/24/oracles-message-to-system-integrators-go-away/ Earlier this year, I was at a conference where a keynote speaker decided to use text messages to solicit input from the audience. To my surprise, many of the the anonymous messages that appeared on the screen were juvenile, inane or downright aggressive. I raised this with the leadership of the user ... http://www.vesterli.com/2011/11/15/some-user-group-members-are-bullies/ Oracle announced a number of cloud offerings at Oracle Openworld. However, as is often the case with OpenWorld announcements, we are still waiting for actual products to materialize. The first cloud offering likely to appear as a real product is the Oracle Database Cloud Service. This is because Oracle has already ... http://www.vesterli.com/2011/11/07/oracles-cloud-still-mostly-vapour/ With social computing, cloud and mobile being the big buzzwords in IT right now, it makes sense to ask where Oracle is in relation to these hot topics. Having attended various briefings, sessions and keynotes at this year's Oracle OpenWorld, and discussing with knowledgeable people, I'll offer my opinion below. First, ... http://www.vesterli.com/2011/10/06/oracle-social-cloud-and-mobile-openworld-2011-part-3/ Well, the hardware part has been announced - more big iron from Oracle: Exalytics specialized BI box, big data appliance and yet another "plug in and forget" database appliance. Interestingly, Oracle is offering R (the open source statistics package/language) in a licensed enterprise version together with the Big Data box ... http://www.vesterli.com/2011/10/05/oracle-openworld-2011-part-2/ After two days of ACE Director briefings at Oracle HQ, I'm starting the conference today with a presentation in the very first slot: 9.00 am in Moscone West room 2000. My topic is "Starting an Enterprise Oracle ADF Project", and it covers the material in my book (slightly abbreviated - ... http://www.vesterli.com/2011/10/02/oracle-openworld-2011-part-1/ It seems that the case of the mysterious disappearing Oracle websites is not part of a devious strategy by Oracle Legal to remove all useful Oracle info from the interweb. I've heard from reliable sources that a new Oracle wiki will be appearing shortly - hopefully running Oracle WebCenter? And the ... http://www.vesterli.com/2011/07/22/correction-lawyers-dont-run-oracle/ Oracle is currently killing off their web sites, yanking lots of useful content off the web with little or no warning. Both the Oracle Wiki and usableapps.oracle.com  died this week, and all Oracle can offer by way of explanation is vague noises about maybe something else will come later. The death ... http://www.vesterli.com/2011/07/19/another-oracle-site-bites-the-dust/