Although I try to maintain separation between e-Literate, which is my personal blog, and my life as an Oracle employee, I don’t mind posting about my employer every now and then when I think that we’re doing good work that my readers might want to know about. And this is something I’m particularly happy about.
As [...]
I’m leaving tomorrow for the Oracle Higher Education Users’ Group Conference and will be gone most of the week. Anybody who will be there and wants to chat can find me in the audience at either of the SAIP presentations or at the Oracle booth on Tuesday from 2-3 PM. As for the blog, I’ll [...]
Thanks to Oracle colleague Jake Kuramoto, I just learned about a product Oracle is in the process of acquiring that has some connection to the whole portlets/widgets discussion. Apparently, BEA has this product called Ensemble that can (among other things) take any web page and turn it into a “pagelet” (which is kinda like a [...]
I generally don’t blog about my employer too much, since this is a personal blog. But Oracle is doing some interesting (and perhaps surprising) Web 2.0ish things that I thought were worth noting. First, the company now has an official wiki, based on WetPaint, which is open to customers and employees alike for building up [...]
I just discovered this summary of a speech about Oracle’s participation in open source (and open standards) given by Omar Tazi. Apparently, Tazi is Oracle’s Chief Open Source Evangelist. (Who knew?) Tazi himself affirms that the summary is reasonably accurate in his comment on it. (It doesn’t look like he’s aware of our work with [...]
