Looks like Google is shedding any pretense about invading Microsoft territory!
See this Wired blog
As announced some time ago, official Oracle Documentation is being indexed by Google as we speak.
This
will be a great help to Oracle newbies who otherwise would not have
been exposed to the doc unless they thought to become OTN members.
For a very long time Oracle’s threaded architecture had proven to be a major liability when running on Windows. However, with the recent introduction of Windows 64-bit computing, the liability has now become a definite asset.
I recently discovered a blog site dedicated to Oracle on Windows and the blogger, Edward Whalen, has posted a number of very good articles. Begin by reading his initial article which explains why the threaded architecture is now an asset on Windows 64-bit.
I hope Ed keeps up with his articles. I’ve found them very informative for my own project which is to migrate several 8.1.7.4 DB’s on Windows 2000 to 10.2g on Windows 2003.
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A few months ago I started a new position as a contract Oracle DBA. This particular client had been without an Oracle DBA for about six months and, consequently, had developed definite performance issues over that time. Additionally, it had been several years since I last actively worked as an Oracle DBA and I really needed to exercise my skills while learning new ones. Continue reading ‘Oracle 8i on Windows 2000 Advanced Server’ »
Having worked in a mainframe environment, it always pleases me to see this kind of article!Â
For the last 15 years, the overall trend in IT has been towards outsourcing — but that trend is apparently beginning to reverse.
The Sloan Management Review (Summer 2006, p. 12) notes that according to a recent Deloitte Consulting LLP study, 70 % of large organizations studied “had negative experiences with outsourcing … [and] 64 % of the organizations … have brought at least some functions back in-house because of their negative experiences.”