Up Front / 8
FROM OUR
READERS / 8
Readers tell us what
they think.
At Oracle / 14
FROM THE
EDI TOR / 10
What Would You Do with
a Million? —Tom Haunert
MASHUP / 12
EVENT PREVIEW / 14
Countdown to Oracle
Open World, JavaOne, and
Oracle Develop
EVENTS / 15
Find out about upcoming
technology and industry
events.
RESOURCES / 17
Your guide to Oracle
Webcasts, podcasts, blogs,
and more
BRIEFS / 22
The latest product news
NEWS / 25
The Next Stage in
Business Intelligence
Oracle Business Intelligence
Enterprise Edition 11g sets a
new standard for enterprise
BI. —Chip Brookshaw
IN TERVIEW / 27
Better Tools for
Business Processes
Oracle’s Hasan Rizvi on
Oracle Unified Business
Process Management
Suite 11g —Caroline Kvitka
Community / 30
PARTNER NEWS / 30
BOOK BEAT / 30
COMMUNITY
BULLETIN / 33
On the Road with
the Java Bus
A report from the Java Road
Trip: Code to Coast bus tour
—Tori Wieldt
ARCHITECT / 34
Something Old,
Something New
Bridging the generation
gap—in enterprise
architecture
—Bob Rhubart
UP CLOSE / 35
Stronger Together
Ecuador Oracle Users
Group’s Paola Pullas
—Jeff Erickson
PEER-TO-PEER / 36
Efficiency Experts
Kai Yu, Roel Hartman,
Antonio Jose Rodrigues Neto
—Blair Campbell
Technology / 55
PL/SQL / 55
Zoom In on Your Code
Use PL/Scope to analyze
your PL/SQL.
—Steven Feuerstein
BUSINESS
IN TELLIGENCE / 61
Using Oracle Essbase
Release 11. 1. 2 Aggregate
Storage Option
Databases
Take advantage of new
persistent calculation
and allocation capabilities
for planning and budgeting
applications. —Mark Rittman
and Venkatakrishnan
Janakiraman
BROWSER-BASED
/ 65
User-Built Applications
Oracle Application Express
4.0 Websheets enable end
users to integrate, share, and
maintain content.
—David Peake
S TORAGE / 67
Building on Storage
Create sophisticated,
feature-rich clustered
file systems on Oracle
Automatic Storage
Management disk groups.
—Arup Nanda
ASK TOM / 71
On Popularity, Learning,
and Unlearning
Our technologist revisits a
classic, recounts Cardinality
Feedback, and remembers
SQL*Plus. —Tom Kyte
Comment / 76
IN THE FIELD / 76
Red Is the New Green!
Red dashboard indicators
aren’t all bad.
—David Ferguson
