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Month: January 2008

Virtualization: The Promise land?
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Software can be sold as a virtual appliance with its own OS to run as a virtual machine on your existing server or VMware using cloud computing. Is this the future? The benefits: flexibility and maintenance for software delivery. But many don’t support virtualization platforms….yet. Oracle’s virtualization technology goes hand in hand with support for their apps. In fact, Oracle has announced that its virtualization software will support both Oracle and non-Oracle applications. They are one of the ones ahead […]

What’s To Know About Oracle’s DB Management Tools?
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A feature known as Automatic Workload Repository (AWR) is built into Oracle database versions 10g/11g. AWR basically gathers all of the metrics and statistics that are utilized by the Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor (ADDM), which in turn enables a significant amount of database management tools and self-management functions. Clients that have employed ADDM and AWR functionalities report having experienced increased database performance. But, be alert….If your database administrators’ are making use of the AWR information (and they likely are), it’s […]

What is Software Licensing anyway?
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Software licensing is a contract of agreement between the software publisher – e.g. Oracle, Microsoft, Adobe, to name a few – and the end user, sometimes referred to as the End User License Agreement, or EULA. Though software licensing can be a paper agreement, most often it’s embedded in the software itself as part of the installation process. You see this kind of EULA in every day life. Just over the weekend I installed some play software for my 6 […]

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