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What is the US Daylight Saving Change (DST) for 2007?
Beginning in 2007, daylight saving time in the U.S. will begin on the second Sunday in March and end the first Sunday in November rather than beginning on the first Sunday in April and ending the last Sunday in October, as it did in the past. This change affects Canada as well. Mexico is still using the old DST rules.
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United States Time Zone Changes 2007: E-Business Suite (EBS).
Have you looked at our Knowledge Browser page on Metalink? See Daylight Savings Time (DST) USA 2007
You can also look at this external Blog about Clarifying E-Business Suite Daylight Saving Time 2007 Patching Requirements - http://blogs.oracle.com/schan/2007/01/19#a1149
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Monday, February 05, 2007
Wednesday, December 06, 2006
OCP - Oracle Certified Professional Part V
OCP- Is it really valuable?
That's the question a lot of people have . . .
OCP- Is it really valuable?
The answer to this question is not as straightforward as it appears.
OCP is really valuable for people who are in the consulting industry. When I did my OCP at that time there was a condition (not sure whether the condition still exists). There were a number of requirements for a company to become Oracle Partners and one was to have a certain number of employees who are Oracle Certified (no matter in what stream they are certified). So companies used to give more money to OCPs.
To read more click on :
An Oracle Applications Implementer's Journal
That's the question a lot of people have . . .
OCP- Is it really valuable?
The answer to this question is not as straightforward as it appears.
OCP is really valuable for people who are in the consulting industry. When I did my OCP at that time there was a condition (not sure whether the condition still exists). There were a number of requirements for a company to become Oracle Partners and one was to have a certain number of employees who are Oracle Certified (no matter in what stream they are certified). So companies used to give more money to OCPs.
To read more click on :
An Oracle Applications Implementer's Journal
Thursday, November 30, 2006
Inside Oracle's bombshell plan to support Red Hat
By Mark Brunelli, News Editor30 Nov 2006 SearchOracle.com
Oracle's bombshell plan to offer full support for Red Hat Inc.'s Linux distribution at half the price sent shock waves through the IT industry.
Operating systems expert Tony Iams, a vice president and senior analyst with Ideas International in Port Chester, New York, says the move represents the first time a major applications vendor has jumped into the operating systems business in such a dramatic way. But, he adds, it's also a move that should have come as a major surprise to Red Hat.
SearchOracle.com caught up with Iams to discuss the details of Oracle's plan and get his opinion on whether or not Oracle's strategy will severely hurt Red Hat's business over the long term. Here are some excerpts from that conversation:
Click here to read full article.
Inside Oracle's bombshell plan to support Red Hat
Oracle's bombshell plan to offer full support for Red Hat Inc.'s Linux distribution at half the price sent shock waves through the IT industry.
Operating systems expert Tony Iams, a vice president and senior analyst with Ideas International in Port Chester, New York, says the move represents the first time a major applications vendor has jumped into the operating systems business in such a dramatic way. But, he adds, it's also a move that should have come as a major surprise to Red Hat.
SearchOracle.com caught up with Iams to discuss the details of Oracle's plan and get his opinion on whether or not Oracle's strategy will severely hurt Red Hat's business over the long term. Here are some excerpts from that conversation:
Click here to read full article.
Inside Oracle's bombshell plan to support Red Hat
Monday, November 06, 2006
One World may not be enough for some of us!
Here's a post copied from an informative blog by Frank Scavo at "The Enterprise System Spectator". I think that Frank has hit the nail on the head! It look like Larry's truly wants to rule the world. Start shorting your shares of Red Hat.
Oracle plays hardball with Linux support
Oracle just threw a monkey-wrench into the Linux machine shop. It announced last week at its user conference that it will take Red Hat's distribution of Linux, remove Red Hat's trademarks, and begin maintaining the product under a support agreement for about half the price of what Red Hat charges.
Oracle is touting its new offering, dubbed Unbreakable Linux, as a way to increase the enterprise-class status of Linux. "Oracle's Unbreakable Linux program is available to all Linux users for as low as $99 per system per year," said Oracle co-President Charles Phillips in Oracle's press release. "You do not have to be a user of Oracle software to qualify. This is all about broadening the success of Linux. To get Oracle support for Red Hat Linux all you have to do is point your Red Hat server to the Oracle network. The switch takes less than a minute."
What's striking in Oracle's press release is how many other parties are quoted as positive about Oracle's move. Oracle got Dell, Intel, HP, IBM, Accenture, AMD, Bearing Point, EMC, BMC, and NetApp all to say good things about Oracle's decision. Some of them that have their own Linux support services, such as HP and IBM, are caught between maintaining their relationship with Oracle and building their own Linux businesses.
Red Hat is in a really tough position, with its stock plunging 24% on the news. It responded on its website, with a FAQ entitled "Unfakeable Linux," in which it points out deficiencies and incompatibilities in Oracle's offering, specifically Oracle's lack of support for Red Hat and JBoss applications, as well has potential hardware, software, and other incompatibilities between Oracle and Red Hat Linux. (Red Hat's website is extremely slow today, probably because of all the hits it is getting from the Linux community on this FAQ.)
As usual, the most insightful commentary is on Slashdot, if you can find it. For example, "Korgan" writes...
Actually, the whole reason they're doing this is because they're pissed off with Red Hat for buying JBoss when Oracle wanted it.
I kid you not. Search Google for comments from Larry just after Red Hat made the purchase and you'll see why.
This is just continuing that. Oracle at the time said they were considering their own Linux distro in an attempt to compete with Redhat. To paraphrase Ellison...
If Redhat are going to step on our toes, we'll stomp on theirs
This isn't going to make any real difference to Redhat in the long term. Oracle would be smart to position their distro as the best possible platform for their own primary products (such as the databases, ERP software and so on.) However, the chances of that are pretty slim.
Given Oracle just recently released a mammoth patch for their 9i and 11i products that, while containing more than 100 bug fixes, didn't manage to fix all known bugs, I seriously doubt they're in any way prepared to take on the responsibility of a full fledged Enterprise ready Operating System. This is going to kick them hard.
Although I think this may overstate Oracle's motives, I don't think it is far off. It wouldn't surprise me at all, now, if Oracle's intention is to drive down Red Hat's stock price and ultimately be able to buy Red Hat along with its recent JBoss acquisition.
That would allow Oracle to own the entire technology stack, from operating system through database and middleware, all the way to enterprise applications.
To read more of Frank's blog please click on the link:The Enterprise System Spectator
Oracle plays hardball with Linux support
Oracle just threw a monkey-wrench into the Linux machine shop. It announced last week at its user conference that it will take Red Hat's distribution of Linux, remove Red Hat's trademarks, and begin maintaining the product under a support agreement for about half the price of what Red Hat charges.
Oracle is touting its new offering, dubbed Unbreakable Linux, as a way to increase the enterprise-class status of Linux. "Oracle's Unbreakable Linux program is available to all Linux users for as low as $99 per system per year," said Oracle co-President Charles Phillips in Oracle's press release. "You do not have to be a user of Oracle software to qualify. This is all about broadening the success of Linux. To get Oracle support for Red Hat Linux all you have to do is point your Red Hat server to the Oracle network. The switch takes less than a minute."
What's striking in Oracle's press release is how many other parties are quoted as positive about Oracle's move. Oracle got Dell, Intel, HP, IBM, Accenture, AMD, Bearing Point, EMC, BMC, and NetApp all to say good things about Oracle's decision. Some of them that have their own Linux support services, such as HP and IBM, are caught between maintaining their relationship with Oracle and building their own Linux businesses.
Red Hat is in a really tough position, with its stock plunging 24% on the news. It responded on its website, with a FAQ entitled "Unfakeable Linux," in which it points out deficiencies and incompatibilities in Oracle's offering, specifically Oracle's lack of support for Red Hat and JBoss applications, as well has potential hardware, software, and other incompatibilities between Oracle and Red Hat Linux. (Red Hat's website is extremely slow today, probably because of all the hits it is getting from the Linux community on this FAQ.)
As usual, the most insightful commentary is on Slashdot, if you can find it. For example, "Korgan" writes...
Actually, the whole reason they're doing this is because they're pissed off with Red Hat for buying JBoss when Oracle wanted it.
I kid you not. Search Google for comments from Larry just after Red Hat made the purchase and you'll see why.
This is just continuing that. Oracle at the time said they were considering their own Linux distro in an attempt to compete with Redhat. To paraphrase Ellison...
If Redhat are going to step on our toes, we'll stomp on theirs
This isn't going to make any real difference to Redhat in the long term. Oracle would be smart to position their distro as the best possible platform for their own primary products (such as the databases, ERP software and so on.) However, the chances of that are pretty slim.
Given Oracle just recently released a mammoth patch for their 9i and 11i products that, while containing more than 100 bug fixes, didn't manage to fix all known bugs, I seriously doubt they're in any way prepared to take on the responsibility of a full fledged Enterprise ready Operating System. This is going to kick them hard.
Although I think this may overstate Oracle's motives, I don't think it is far off. It wouldn't surprise me at all, now, if Oracle's intention is to drive down Red Hat's stock price and ultimately be able to buy Red Hat along with its recent JBoss acquisition.
That would allow Oracle to own the entire technology stack, from operating system through database and middleware, all the way to enterprise applications.
To read more of Frank's blog please click on the link:The Enterprise System Spectator
Saturday, November 04, 2006
OpenWorld 2006 sessions are now available online
The presentations for the OpenWorld 2006 sessions are now available online. You can download PDFs of their presentations or watch videos of the keynote speakers.
The login information needed to download these presentations is displayed at the top of the Content Catalog. You will need to use the following usr id and password
Username: cboracle
Password: oraclec6
Click the link below access the presentations:
OpenWorld 2006 Applications Technology session
The login information needed to download these presentations is displayed at the top of the Content Catalog. You will need to use the following usr id and password
Username: cboracle
Password: oraclec6
Click the link below access the presentations:
OpenWorld 2006 Applications Technology session
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