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Oracle - Sun, what has changed ?

February 12th, 2010

Did you go to http://www.sun.com recently? You will land on oracle.com !

But more will come.

The conference JavaOne will be in SanFrancisco with Oracle OpenWorld.

The Sun Developer Network and Bigadmin will be integrated in OTN.

Welcome Sun Developers Ensuring community continuity

MySql and java.sun.com have the Oracle logo.

That was fast! Well, Oracle is quite used to acquisition, only this week they bought AmberPoint and Convergin.

Still MySQL strategy will probably change, I cannot believe Oracle will encourage the users to save millions on Oracle License by migrating to MySQL
http://www.mysql.com/products/enterprise/unlimited.html

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Oracle buys Sun : followup

January 21st, 2010

After months of harassment between Oracle and Europe Commission, the deals got approved by the European Commission.

Still MySQL founder Monty Widenius wants to have Russia and China reject the deal to save the future of MySQL… This will delay the deals further. Good for IBM, bad for Oracle !

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11.2 solaris x86_64

December 5th, 2009

Released as announced for 2009Q4… database, 11.2 for Solaris x86_64

Still Oracle is suffering with European Union Commission who is still blocking the Sun deal.

google news about the deal

11gR2, installation, news

11.2 Sparc

November 12th, 2009

future release dates of 11gR2

September 28th, 2009

HPUX Itanium, Sun Sparc/x86_64, AIX –> october-december 2009
Windows, HPUX Risc –> april-june 2010
Ref: Release Schedule of Current Database Patch Sets

Dates will change, keep an eye on the schedule, and do not base your business on expected dates ! Please be patient :)

dba, news, support

11.1.0.7 is the latest patchset for 11gR1

September 21st, 2009

You will get CPU and even PSU (Patch Set Updates are proactive cumulative patches comprised of recommended bug fixes that are released on a regular and predictable schedule)

But no more patchset. This the first time I see a release with only 1 pachset.

Well, if you use Linux, you can go to 11gR2. Otherwise you may better stick to 10.2.0.4 for a few more months

Ref: 742060.1
11.1.0.7 is the last patch set for Release 11.1

dba, installation, news

database 11gR2

September 1st, 2009

Good news today, you can download Oracle Database 11g Release 2 :)

11gR2, news

Oracle buys Sun

April 21st, 2009

http://www.oracle.com/sun

I really enjoyed this news. It is both my favorite OS (Solaris) and my favorite database (Oracle) committing to a common future. I have been more than sceptical about Oracle Linux and Oracle Database Machine entering the Datacenter world, but now I feel relieved that Oracle is putting value in acquiring serious database platform (oracle/sparc) :)

On the application side, acquiring Java is more than a smart move against Websphere …

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Oracle on Mac

April 3rd, 2009

I just read a post from Barry Mc Gillin about apex on MacOsX.

After having being using Vista for one year, I would really welcome a Mac as my next notebook. But what about Oracle Database on Mac OS X?

According to otn, the latest release as of today is a deprecated 10gR1 for the deprecated platform PowerPC.

However, according to metalink, a 10gR2 is planned for the first quarter of 2009 (sic)
Db 10gR2 on MacOS X Intel
And 11g is planned too Db 11gR1 on MacOS X Intel, Schedule to be announced.

11g, installation, news, support