Oracle and Sun
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We are keeping a close eye of some important technologies in the wake of the Sun Microsystems takeover by Oracle. It is interesting to see what will happen to Java, Open Office and Open Solaris.
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Free Sat-Nav for your mobile phone
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Nokia Ovi Maps has been offered for free with certain handsets since January 2010. We will update you when this offer is extended to the older enterprise smart phones.
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Oracle Database 11g Release 2 cluster-enabled dbconsole
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You may have a small RAC database that is managed with the dbconsole rather than the grid. The documentation states that the console must be started manually on the applicable cluster node(s) whenever it is required. Couldn't the CRS cluster start and stop the dbconsole automatically?
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Oracle Database 11g Release 2 new feature: server pools
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Oracle Database 11g Release 2 has a new feature named server pools. If a database is created as a policy managed RAC database then policy will dictate where the database instances are placed in the cluster rather than which instances were created on which node at creation time.
Take a cluster of three nodes.
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Oracle Database 11g Release 2 available
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Oracle Database 11g release 2 has been released. Key improvements include
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Virtualised Oracle Database
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The Register is reporting that under certain circumstances it is faster and cheaper to run Oracle Database under VMware as an alternative to deploying a RAC configuration.
OpenStreetMap moves to PostgreSQL
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Clever Elephant has reported that PostgreSQL will be used for OpenStreetMap.
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UK Google street view launched
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Google have released their street view software for the UK. To give it a try, visit maps.google.com with Javascript enabled, search for London, then drag the little orange man (at the top of the left-hand zoom bar) onto the map. Streets that are navigable will be shown in blue.
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Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 released
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The Debian Project is pleased to
announce the official release of
Debian GNU/Linux version 5.0 (codenamed Lenny
) after 22 months of
constant development. Debian GNU/Linux is a free operating system which
supports a total of twelve processor architectures and includes the KDE,
GNOME, Xfce, and LXDE desktop environments. It also features
compatibility with the FHS v2.3 and software developed for
version 3.2 of the LSB.
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Top 25 dangerous programming errors
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The SANS Intitute have released a list containing what are considered to be the twenty-five most dangerous programming errors. Update your code now!
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