Updated: 2012-01-24 16:00:00
Episode 65 of the Java Spotlight features an interview with Joe McGlynn, Thomas Ng and Henry James of the Deployment and Plugin Team about recent changes in Java Deployment and Plugin. Dalibor Topic, Java Free and Open Source Software Ambassador, and Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine, Java EE Developer Advocate, are this episode's panelists.
Updated: 2012-01-24 16:00:00
The Linux Foundation and Yeoman Technology Group conducted an invitation-only survey of 1893 enterprise Linux users. Among the findings are plans by 80% of respondents to implement Linux servers in the next 12 months; 72% plan to use Linux to support their "big data" operations; the number of respondents with reservations about technical issues declined from 40% in 2010 to 20.3%; 22% fewer cite perceptions by management as an impediment to Linux implementations, and 10% fewer cite no issues at all impeding the success of Linux; and some 66.6% of respondents consider Linux to be more secure than Windows.
Updated: 2012-01-16 16:00:00
Oracle's January 2012 Critical Patch Update provides fixes for 78 new security vulnerabilities affecting a wide range of Oracle products families, Eric Maurice posts. These included Oracle Database, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Supply Chain Products Suite, Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise, Oracle JDEdwards EnterpriseOne, Oracle Virtualization, Oracle Sun product suite, and Oracle MySQL. He points out that security fixes for Java SE continue to be released on a different schedule because of commitments made before the completion of the Sun acquisition.
Updated: 2012-01-16 16:00:00
: Daily News Current Issue Archives by Activity by Section by Date Blogs Keywords Condensed List List Cloud Mediakit Advertise Free Trial System News Volume 167 Issue 3 Oracle Sign in Register Password Help Membership types Now Available : Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database 11g Release 2 vBeers-SF vBeers-Houston Illumos ZFS MySQL Linux Exadata SPARC Storage Top10 LibreOffice Performance Sysadmin Virtualization Java Technology Security Oracle Trademarks Previous Next Improves Performance of Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management , Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine January 16, 2012, Volume 167, Issue 3 Oracle's application-tier in-memory database Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database 11g Release 2 is now available . Oracle describes the TimesTen In-Memory Database as a
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Daily News Current Issue Archives by Activity by Section by Date Blogs Keywords Condensed List List Cloud Mediakit Advertise Free Trial System News Volume 167 Issue 3 MySQL Sign in Register Password Help Membership types Download MySQL Enterprise Backup 3.7.0 Illumos ZFS MySQL Linux Exadata SPARC Storage Top10 LibreOffice Performance Sysadmin Virtualization Java Technology Security Oracle Trademarks Previous Next Available Immediately for Enterprise Customers January 16, 2012, Volume 167, Issue 3 MySQL Enterprise Backup 3.7.0 MEB 3.7.0 is available and has several advanced features that will have value for users . These include : Redo Log only Incremental Backup Incremental Backup without specifying LSN Validation of Backup Image using checksums Hot Backup of InnoDB frm files Performance
Updated: 2012-01-16 16:00:00
In its latest release LibreOffice 3.4.5 includes several bug fixes and an improved level of stability. The Document Foundation, the parent organization of LibreOffice, reports that the solution won InfoWorld's BOSSIE Award 2011 as the Best of Open Source Software and the Open World Forum Experiment Award of Most-Popular Software. Downloads of LibreOffice 3.4.5 are immediately available, as are extensions.
Updated: 2012-01-09 16:00:00
Geertjan Wielenga, Principal Product Manger in Oracle Developer Tools for NetBeans, is the guest on Episode 64 of the Java Spotlight podcast in a discussion of the NetBeans 7.1 release. NetBeans IDE 7.1 introduces support for JavaFX 2.0 by enabling the full compile/debug/profile development cycle for JavaFX 2.0 applications. The release also provides significant Swing GUI Builder enhancements, CSS3 support, and tools for visual debugging of Swing and JavaFX user interfaces. Additional highlights include Git support integrated into the IDE, new PHP debugging features, various JavaEE and Maven improvements, and more.
Updated: 2012-01-09 16:00:00
In Episode 63 of the Java Spotlight Alok Patel shares his expertise on the new Java Network APIs. Patel is Principal Product Manager with the Java Mobile team. The Network API is a set of APIs provided by network operators to enable client/server access to such major cellular network functionality as messaging, location, and payment. The Network API requires only the basic functionality of the mobile terminal, allowing for wide deployment in emerging markets such as BRICA. MIDlets on lower-end phones, hybrid applications on powerful feature phones can all use Network API.
Updated: 2012-01-09 16:00:00
Virtualization Review has published its 2012 Readers' Choice Award and Buyers' Guide. A number of Oracle solutions appear in several categories. Each category has an overall winner, a preferred product plus a new category, ISV winner, created to highlight some of the smaller vendors who are cranking out really cool and innovative products. There is a link to a PDF that includes the complete 2012 Comprehensive Buyers' Guide.
Updated: 2012-01-09 16:00:00
Oracle Sun SPARC T-Series servers now feature automated diagnosis as part of the My Oracle Support services. Users are strongly urged to upload an Oracle Explorer when asked in the Service Request (SR) creation process in My Oracle Support (MOS), which will allow the SR to be handled by Automated Diagnosis and speed up the service process significantly. By not uploading an Explorer during SR creation or shortly afterwards Service Requests will follow the normal process. Automated Diagnosis will not be used on P1 Service requests or Accounts that have special handling instructions.
Updated: 2012-01-09 16:00:00
Several important new features are included in the latest release of Oracle Database Firewsall. Among them is protection against data breaches extended to MySQL databases. In addition, there are now various reporting capabilities that include 10 new out-of-the-box reports to further help organizations comply with privacy and regulatory mandates, and a new reporting infrastructure for running and modifying the layout of existing reports. Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher customers will now be able to take advantage of all capabilities offered for authoring, managing, and delivering highly formatted documents that can be designed using familiar desktop products.
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Updated: 2012-01-09 16:00:00
Daily News Current Issue Archives by Activity by Section by Date Blogs Keywords Condensed List List Cloud Mediakit Advertise Free Trial System News Volume 167 Issue 2 Exadata Sign in Register Password Help Membership types The Oracle Big Data Appliance ZFS MySQL xVM Exadata SPARC OpenStorage Top10 Developer Sysadmin Networking Virtualization Java Technology Security Telco Oracle Trademarks Previous Next Also Releases Oracle Big Data Connectors to Help Unlock the Value of Enterprise Big Data January 9, 2012, Volume 167, Issue 2 Oracle has just announced the availability of Oracle Big Data , Appliance an engineered system of hardware and software that incorporates Cloudera�s Distribution , Including Apache Hadoop with Cloudera Manager , plus an open source distribution of R . Big Data
Updated: 2012-01-06 16:00:00
In his 27 minute video on Java EE 6 Using WebLogic 12c, NetBeans, and MySQL Arun Gupta shows how to develop and deploy a Java EE 6 application on WebLogic 12c using NetBeans. It builds a simple application using Java Persistence API 2.0, Enterprise JavaBeans 3.1, Servlets 3.0, Java API for RESTful Web Services 1.1, Java Server Faces 2.0, and Contexts & Dependency Injection 1.0. The video also explains how to configure MySQL database in NetBeans and use it for accessing the database tables in the Java EE 6 applications.
Updated: 2012-01-06 16:00:00
"Oracle OLAP Exadata X2-2 Performance Demonstration," an Oracle white paper, describes a performance demonstration of the OLAP Option (On-line Analytical Processing) to the Oracle Database running on an X2-2 Exadata Database Machine half rack. With a community of 50 users and each user querying the database non-stop (without waits between queries), median query times ranged from .03 to .58 seconds, and average query times ranged from .26 to 2.32 seconds, while 95 percent of queries returned in 1.5 to 5.5 seconds, depending on the type of query.
Updated: 2012-01-05 16:00:00
Daily News Current Issue Archives by Activity by Section by Date Blogs Keywords Condensed List List Cloud Mediakit Advertise Free Trial System News Volume 167 Issue 1 NetBeans Sign in Register Password Help Membership types Oracle Announces Release of NetBeans IDE 7.1 Illumos Features Cloud Computing Exadata SPARC Storage Sun Tape Top10 Developer Java Technology NetBeans Trademarks Previous Next First IDE to Support JavaFX 2.0 and JDK 7 January 5, 2012, Volume 167, Issue 1 With the release of the free , open source NetBeans IDE 7.1 there is now an IDE that supports JavaFX 2.0 in all three deployment models including Desktop , Applet and JNLP and JDK 7. With this release , available for Oracle Solaris , Oracle Linux , other Linux distributions , Mac and Windows , Oracle confirms its support
