DOAG Conference 2012 - Call for Papers

As every year the DOAG (German Oracle User Group) Conference will take place Nürnberg/Germany from the 20th November until 22nd November 2012.

The Call for Papers is already open and ends on 30th June 2012:

German Link: http://www.doag.org/de/events/konferenzen/doag-2012/fuer-referenten.html
English Link: http://www.doag.org/en/events/konferenzen/doag-2012/fuer-referenten.html

Once again, I will be in the election board for the streams (MySQL & Fusion Middleware) to rate/choose the presentation which will be shown on the conference.

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BEA Welcome and Oracle's Middleware Strategy Briefing

I follow right now the "Bea Welcome and Oracle's Middleware Strategy Briefing" and I was really impressed about the plans and direction where they want to go.

With the combination of both product stacks from Oracle Fusion Middleware and BEA Oracle will build up a lot of new and improved components.

Most changes will appear in the Service-Orient Architecture (SOA), e.g. the Oracle Enterprise Service Bus and BEA AquaLogic Service Bus will be unified to the new Oracle Service Bus.

Also a major focus are Enterprise 2.0 Portals, which are already started since last year with Oracle WebCenter Suite. The BEA WL-Portal development will be contiuned and integrated in the WebCenter Suite.

Oracle Identity Management will nearly stay the same, only extended with the BEA AL-Enterprise Security.

The classical DBA who works with Oracle GridControl will also get some new and refreshed Packs for the Middleware Stack.

As I assumed before the BEA Product Liquid VM will be integrated in the Oracle Product Stack. The only thing what I was not expecting is the move from Oracle Container for J2EE (OC4J) to the J2EE Server from BEA, but we will see how much "quirks" of the OC4J will be integrated :-)

If you couldn't follow the Webcast today, check out http://www.oracle.com/products/middleware/bea.html for details and if you interested in testing the BEA Stack, under http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/ias/bea_main.html you can already download the BEA Products.

One suggestion for the Product Managers of the Fusion Family, maybe you should think about to combine Liquid VM with Coherence, could be really cool just to run Coherence on a Liquid VM ...

Stars are shining bright :-) let's see what they realize and in which timeline ...

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Oracle Assessment for Oracle Application Server

In the last days I discovered in the partner area of Oracle, that you can join some assessment for free, so I just try some of these assessments for Oracle Application Server.

Now I got certificates for:

• Oracle 10g Application Server Specialist Sales Champion Awareness Assessment
• Oracle 10g Application Server Specialist Sales Champion Proficiency Assesssment
• Oracle 10g for Resellers Sales Champion Awareness Assessment

Cool, now I can not only install, configure, tune and troubleshot Oracle Application Server, now I know how to sell them :-)

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OpenWorld 2007 Presentation about Oracle AS 11g

Original posted 21st Nov 2007:

Today I found a cool presentation about the future of Oracle AS 11g from John Lang (Group Manager, Fusion Middleware Product Management).

There will be a complete break of technology, structure, concept and administration of the Oracle AS. Some highlights are:

• Separation of binaries and configuration files
• Several command line interface (CLI) will be merged into one CLI called asctl
• J2EE 1.5 Standard
• One Software installation ($ORACLE_HOME) can contain multiple Oracle AS Instances, this means if you need another Oracle AS Instance on a server where is already an Oracle AS installed, you just have to execute a command through the new CLI asctl
• Unified Management through JMX MBean
• New web based Administration GUI - FMWControl = Fusion Middleware Control
• CLI asctl (Scripting language Jython based)
  
• JMX Client
• DMS metrics are fine graded published in the new FMWControl
  

But unfortunately a release date for the Oracle AS is not published in the presentation , so please be patient.

The full presentation can be found under http://www28.cplan.com/cc176/catalog.jsp and search for Session ID S292004.

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