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An Event Forwarding Solution From Ops Center to Oracle Enteprise Manager

The Oracle Management Connector for Ops Center enables users to view event information in the Oracle Enterprise Manager console. With the Connector, Ops Center notifications are displayed as Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control alerts. Benefits of such an integration for system administrators include faster resolution times, more immediate root cause analysis, and faster communication flow between IT departments.

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First Desktop to Web to Mobile Solution Based on ODF Standard

A rebranding is in store for StarOffice and StarSuite, and a web-based office suite is in the works that will be tightly integrated with the OpenOffice.org desktop version, allowing users to access their documents from basically any browser and from any device. This information is from Michael Bemmer, former Sun staffer and now head of the new Office Global Business Unit at Oracle, who presents a brief summary of the future of OpenOffice.org and office productivity at Oracle, along with how the Sun Oracle merger will benefit customers and users.

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Thread Safety Policy Helps Simplify Design of Applications

A java.net article discusses design principles to follow when the objective is to build an efficient, thread-safe application. In the article “Rethinking Multi-Threaded Design Principles,” Dibyendu Roy asserts that careful design and adherence to a well thought out underlying policy is essential for productive thread-based systems.

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Oracle Community Offers a Couple of Suggestions for Newcomers

Former Sun employees now working for Oracle may be interested in the personalized online training their new employer does offer. In a question posed on Oracle Mix, an inquisitive newcomer gets a couple of hints from Oracle veterans.

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MySQL Co-founder and Others Believe So

An assessment of the Oracle-Sun acquisition in terms of the future for the open source database MySQL is presented by Steve Evans of CBR in the article “What now for MySQL?” He reviews the hard fight Oracle eventually won to become owner of MySQL, and offers why the EU’s decision should assuage some of the worries of the open source community.

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PeopleSoft Campus Solutions 9.0 on Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 and X6270 Blades

Results of the PeopleSoft Campus Solutions 9.0 benchmark on Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 and X6270 blade servers are available. This benchmarking report is particularly significant, writes Giri Mandalika in his Scratchpad blog, because the workload has both online transactions and batch processes and, furthermore, it is the first time Sun has published a PeopleSoft benchmark on x64 hardware running Oracle Enterprise Linux.

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How to Deploy a Secure Application with Protected Methods

Learn how to deploy a secure application with protected methods on Oracle-Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server Version 3. Nithya Subramanian shows how to provide authentication credentials to the embedded server - a key new feature offered by this version of GlassFish - before invoking the protected methods in a recent blog entry.

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Sun Developer Network Piece Presents Six Scenarios

The browser-based applications that present the kinds of engrossing user interfaces (UIs) and content previously found only in desktop applications — otherwise known as Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) — are becoming increasingly popular with developers, writes Sun Developer Network staffer Ed Ort, in part because of the ubiquity of the Internet and also because of the improved uniformity in the way different browsers handle RIAs.

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Sun’s First Month Expected to Contribute About $636 Million

Oracle’s third quarter fiscal year 2010 results will be released on Thursday, March 25th, after the close of the market. Oracle plans on hosting a conference call and live web broadcast at 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time to discuss the financial results. The live web broadcast will be available from the Oracle Investor Relations Web site.

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Oracle VM 3 Expected to be Released This Spring

The Oracle virtualization portfolio got a boost with the company’s acquisition of Sun, and it has signaled a willingness to take on VMware. Oracle VM 3, which is expected this spring, will give Oracle credible Xen-based server virtualization that could challenge VMware, Microsoft and Citrix Systems Inc. — at least in the tens of thousands of Oracle database and application shops. A SearchServerVirtualization.com article explores Oracle’s virtualization play.

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