DEPARTMENTS VOLUME XXV - ISSUE 3
Up Front / 6
FROM OUR
READERS / 6
Readers tell us what
they think.
At Oracle / 11
EVEN TS / 11
Find out about upcoming
technology and industry
events.
FROM THE EDITOR / 7
Get to the Right People
—Tom Haunert
RESOURCES / 13
Your guide to Oracle
Webcasts, podcasts, blogs,
and more
BRIEFS / 16
The latest product news
MASHUP / 8
News, views, trends
and tools.
INTERVIEW / 19
The Social Connection
Andy MacMillan, vice
president of Enterprise 2.0
product management at
Oracle, talks about Oracle
WebCenter Suite 11g.
—Caroline Kvitka
Community / 22
PARTNER NEWS / 22
BOOK BEAT / 22
COMMUNITY
BULLETIN / 25
Java.net Grows Up
New infrastructure embraces
the needs of the community.
—Sonya Barry
Technology / 49
BUSINESS
INTELLIGENCE / 49
Putting Business
Intelligence on the Map
Map geographies and
business information
together to see results.
—Mark Rittman
ARCHITECT / 26
Software Architecture:
It’s a Lot of Talk
Communication takes up
a big chunk of a software
architect’s day.
—Bob Rhubart
ORACLE ADF / 53
Implement
Contextual Events
Use Oracle Application
Development Framework’s
Contextual Events
feature for interregion
communication.
—Frank Nimphius
UP CLOSE / 28
Strength in Numbers
A spirited user group
community emerges in Latin
America. —Jeff Erickson
BPM / 57
Build Process-Oriented
Applications
Model, implement, and
execute a business process
for requesting, approving,
and applying salary raises.
—Lucas Jellema
PEER-TO-PEER / 29
Database Centric
Liron Amitzi, Toon Koppelaars,
Fernando Martin Garcia
—Blair Campbell
ORACLE
EXADATA / 35
Smart Scans Meet
Storage Indexes
Understand how Oracle
Exadata uses storage
indexes to speed I/O.
—Arup Nanda
ASK TOM / 67
On Deferring and
Bulking Up
Our technologist prefers
not to defer and works to
increase bulk. —Tom Kyte
Comment / 72
ANALYST’S
CORNER / 72
The SPARC/
Oracle Solaris
Platform Evolution
Hardware and software
optimization improves
performance and availability.
—Diana Reichardt
