OracleSoft coming up?
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News that PeopleSoft had abruptly changed leadership, coupled with an announcement that the US Department of Justice would not appeal a federal court decsion that would allow Oracle to pursue a hostile takeover bid, drove prices of PeopleSoft shares up 15
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News about the launch of Oracle&#39;s next-generation database is sharing headlines this week with an alert about 46 patches that will be arriving next week to fix various vulnerabilities in Oracle software.
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Gennady Feldman has posted the second part of his install instructions for setting up the Oracle Instant Client (11g) and the Oracle OCI8 drivers in PHP.   This is part 2 of my installation instructions. This is my attempt to provide an updated and simplified reference. I am leaving Part 1 as is, because that part can also be useful.   This updated tutorial shows the steps to installing 11g (versus 10g in the previous example) including the packages you'll need, the commands to make it work and a PEAR version of the install if you choose to go that route.
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SEPTEMBER 06, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Customers will be able to get their hands on the delayed version of Oracle Corp.&#39;s E-Business Suite 11i.
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MacCentral - In a presentation to be given later this week at OracleWorld in San Francisco, Calif., Oracle Corp. will outline its Resilient Low-Cost Storage Initiative. After including Apple Computer Inc.'s Xserve RAID in the product testing, Oracle has chosen to deploy Apple's solution internally to run the Oracle Collaboration Suite application for e-mail, voicemail and calendar, Oracle officials will reveal.
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InfoWorld - Oracle at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco the week of Dec. 5 plans to unveil Oracle Integration, a product that combines the company&#8217;s application server with several other technologies for integration and enablement of SOAs (service-oriented architectures).
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A survey of Oracle Users Group attendees finds two-thirds have never applied one of Oracle's quarterly Critical Patch Updates. Oracle, meanwhile, prepares to release its next quarterly CPU on Tuesday.
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As its battle with Oracle continues, the software maker attempts to offer some good news by unveiling tools designed for manufacturers.
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Christopher Jones talks today on his blog about a bug he's just corrected and integrated into the release of the Oracle Instant Client that lets PHP correctly take advantage of the temporary LOBS functionality.   When PHP is done with the temporary LOB, it needs to tell Oracle to destroy it. If this isn't done, then the temporary LOB will hang around using DB space until the connection is closed. I just merged a fix worked on by Krishna Mohan and myself for bug 43497.   Example code is included showing two instances of its use - a normal use that frees the memory correctly and the other showing how to create the temporary lob to hold the data as needed.
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(InfoWorld) - While Wednesday markedÂ the official unveiling of Oracle's 11g databaseÂ and a look at its new features, pricing and availability information was pretty thin on the ground. All the vendor would confirm is that the Linux version of 11g will ship this quarter, probably in August. "It's our intention to do a pricing announcement closer to the release date," said Chuck Rozwat, executive vice president ofÂ server technologies at Oracle. "It's just a matter of weeks before we make that announcement." He was speaking during a question-and-answer session following a more than two-hour 11g launch event in New York. Oracle wouldn't comment on when 11g would be available for the other operating systems the database will support, including Microsoft's Windows. What also remained unclear was which of the 400 features on display would end up being part of 11g and,Â thus, free to customers upgrading from previous versions of the database and which functionality will Oracle charge users for as additional options for 11g. Rozwat said he couldn't make that call on Wednesday, but that the information would also be forthcoming next month. Earlier during the launch event, Oracle president Charles Phillips tried to set the 11g release in context. Oracle's currently celebrating its 30th year in business since beginning life as Software Development Laboratories, later Relational Software, a startup working on building a relational database. Since that time, Oracle has expanded, often through acquisition, into providing a wide range of other software, notably middleware and back-office applications. Databases remain an important source of revenue for the vendor andÂ provide a 275,000-strong customer base into which it can try to sell its other products. The name "Oracle" originally came from the code name for a project the startup was working on for the CIA, said Phillips, a comparatively recent addition to the company, who joined Oracle in 2003. He recalled an anecdote he'd been told by Larry Ellison, Oracle's co-founder and CEO. The startup had expanded to two offices but had no way to run cabling for its servers between the two rooms. It appeared an intractable problem, but Ellison picked up a hammer and banged a hole in the wall, resolving the issue. "That's why we're Oracle today, and he still carries that hammer around," Phillips quipped. Customers' data needs are highly diverse, and Oracle's trying to cater to all of those different requirements, Phillips said. He drew a comparison with modes of transport. Some users are riding tricycles while others are flying first class on a Boeing 747 jet, he said, so running the gamut from a basic need to store and access data up to highly sophisticated requirements around database security, management, storage, and compliance issues. All customers are struggling with an explosion in the amount of data their IT systems have to handle and an increase in the number of people wanting to access that data more frequently, Phillips said. For some time customers have been requesting the ability to apply patches to Oracle's database while it is still up and running, and that's now available in 11g, Phillips said. "They don't want to stop what they're doing and take the database down," he added. It took Oracle several years to develop that functionality, Phillips noted. IT users are also being pressured to do more with less resources, so 11g includes advanced compression and partitioning capabilities so that customers can choose where they store their data and can opt to put less accessed, older information on cheaper storage devices, he added.
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In a new post to his Oracle blog today, Christopher Jones talks about a bug that's been found in the OCI8 extension involving statement caching and a fix he's presenting.   As part of some testing we were doing, we found that PHP's OCI8 extension had a bug in the way it used Oracle's statement caching. The fix is already in CVS and will be generally available in PHP 5.2.4. After a short period for you to send me comments, Antony Dovgal will also build a new PECL snapshot of OCI8.   He explains the issue, a problem attributed to the switching of a "hard pause" and "soft pause" when the script caching connects to the Oracle database server. This caching feature is enabled by adding an "oci8.statement_cache_size" value in your php.ini file (and has a default size of 20).    If you've been having issues with this request caching and want to get the fix right away, grab it from the CVS. Otherwise, keep an eye out for PHP 5.2.4 coming soon to correct the issue.
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Customers will be able to get their hands on the delayed version of Oracle Corp.'s E-Business Suite 11i.10 within 60 days, the Redwood Shores, California, company announced Monday, at the opening day of its OpenWorld conference in London.
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Oracle plans to fix dozens of flaws in its software products next Tuesday, including critical bugs in the company&#39;s database, e-business suite, and application server.In its first security update of 2008, Oracle will ship 27 security fixes, some of which will affect several products. Oracle outlined some details of the upcoming patches in a pre-release announcement posted to the company&#39;s Web site Thursday afternoon.Oracle releases security patches every three months, a process known as the Critical Patch Update (CPU). January&#39;s bug-fix total is low by Oracle&#39;s standards. In October, the company&#160;patched 51 vulnerabilities.As usual, the company&#39;s database will be a major focus of the CPU. Oracle plans to ship eight security fixes for the Oracle Database, addressing bugs in the software&#39;s advanced queuing, core RDBMS (relational database management system), Oracle Agent, Oracle Spatial, and XML (Extensible Markup Language) database software.None of the database vulnerabilities can be exploited over a network without the attacker first obtaining a username and password for the database.Oracle&#39;s next most-patched product will be the E-Business Suite, which will receive seven updates, three of which are for bugs that can be remotely exploited by attackers who do not have usernames or passwords for the system.The Oracle Application Server will get six bug-fixes, addressing flaws in components such as the product&#39;s BPEL (Business Process Execution Language), Worklist Application, Oracle Forms, and Oracle Internet Directory software.Finally, Oracle is planning four updates for its PeopleSoft and JD Edwards products, as well as one fix each for Oracle Enterprise Manager and the Oracle Collaboration Suite.
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Blog: The software maker said Tuesday that it is ready with a near-final "release candidate" version of its software, which will find its way on to servers later this year.
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Oracle may be willing to spend a record sum -- over $6 billion -- to acquire a middleware provider it believes will give it a permanent leg up on Microsoft's SQL Server. Does it still take a huge M&A like this to stay on par with Microsoft?
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InfoWorld - Oracle will release 46 patches on Tuesday for products including its Oracle Database 10g, Application Server, and E-Business Suite.
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Oracle Corp. is finally bringing to the North American market its Oracle E-Business Suite Special Edition, a midmarket-aimed package of pre-installed, preconfigured software from its 11i suite of business applications.