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Oracle professionals know that the two main sites for information and support on running Oracle products are the Oracle Technology Network (OTN), and My Oracle Support (MOS).

• OTN is free for anyone, and provides discussion forums, white papers and free base-release software downloads under the Developer License.
• MOS requires a paid software license and support contract. It offers technical support notes, bug access, request tracking and patches.  It is the only place you can get critical updates and patch sets to, for instance, bring a 10.2.0.1 database up to 10.2.0.4. Read the full article…

Openworld 2010, despite the supposedly lagging economy, had record attendance again this year.  No doubt this was the result of Oracle acquiring something like fourteen companies since last year, including Sun in 2009.  The crowds were thick, divided about evenly between geeks in badly-fitting vendor t-shirts and slick sales-side hustlers with dress pants and shiny shoes.  Read the full article…

Oracle OpenWorld 2010 is just bursting with big cloud-related announcements this week.  As I prepare to present on the Amazon cloud at OOW2010 on Thursday (http://bit.ly/aSKdIQ), I thought I would highlight two of the biggest cloud-related announcements of the week. Read the full article…

Earlier this year, Blue Gecko designed and implemented an Oracle EC2 solution for Sage Manufacturing, an Oracle E-Business Suite customer.  Download the white paper here, and read how Blue Gecko leveraged the flexible, cost-effective Amazon EC2 platform to improve Sage’s Oracle E-Business Suite infrastructure.

Related Links:

Oracle processor licensing on Amazon EC2

Oracle E-Business Suite in the Amazon Cloud

I am scheduled to present “E-Business Suite in the Amazon Cloud” on Monday, April 19 at Collaborate 2010.  I’ll provide an overview of Amazon Web Services and present a few common use cases that E-Business Suite DBAs in particular might find useful.  If you are an E-Business Suite customer and do NOT have a DR site or struggle with sharing test environments, this presentation is for you.  You can download the white paper from our community page; the abstract is as follows:

With Oracle’s announcement of support for Amazon Web Services (AWS), it is now possible to run Oracle databases and Oracle E-Business Suite in the AWS EC2 (Elastic Cloud Compute) cloud. In this session we will create a working release 12 Vision Demo environment on EC2, based entirely on audience specifications. Through the deployment process, we will explain the basics of EC2, and show how anyone can instantly deploy Oracle E-Business Suite for less than $20/day. Demonstrate the basics of working with Amazon EC2 Demonstrate the advantages to running Oracle E-Business Suite on EC2 Explore Oracle/EC2 best practices

Collaborate 2010 in Las Vegas starts April 17th, and Blue Gecko has 2 speakers presenting.  Jeremiah Wilton will present “High Performance Oracle 11g in the Amazon Cloud,” and I will present, “E-Business Suite in the Amazon Cloud.”  More information on the papers and presentations later, but for now, if you haven’t registered for Collaborate 2010, book your reservation asap – there are hundreds of fantastic presentations over 5 days in the Las Vegas sun.

Come on… who’d know if you hit the tables once or twice, or accidentally played 18 holes one of the days? 

For more information check out the Collaborate 2010 official web site.

We’re going to change it up a little bit and have a networking / social event. No presentation this time – just a chance to meet up with colleagues in the area for some food, drink, and conversation. The location is TBD, but will be somewhere downtown – we’re working on securing a spot.

Please send this out to anyone you think might be interested; we’d like to get as many of the people signed up on this list to attend as possible!

The Meetup RSVP can be found at:  http://www.meetup.com/seattle-oracle-apps-tech/calendar/12816702/

Hi All,

We’re going to change it up a little bit and have a networking / social event. No presentation this time – just a chance to meet up with colleagues in the area for some food, drink, and conversation. The location is TBD, but will be somewhere downtown – we’re working on securing a spot.

Please send this out to anyone you think might be interested; we’d like to get as many of the people signed up on this list to attend as possible!

Any vendors who would like to sponsor, please let me know.

Chuck

Many Oracle Apps DBAs don’t feel pressure to apply E-Business Suite CPU until they are asked to expose an application node to the outside world; now there’s no excuse.  If you’re an established EBS shop and you’ve never applied the EBS CPU patches for your Release 11i environment, there is quite a bit of work to get caught up on should you need to implement a new module like iStore or iSupplier. Read the full article…

Looking for a simpler way to download from the new Metalink?  Oracle has replaced the ftp site with http downloads using wget.  If you’re looking for a simple way to use wget without all of that cutting-and-pasting from the web site, you can use a simple script like this: Read the full article…