FROM THE EDITOR / 6
Really Big
—Tom Haunert
MASHUP / 8
News, views, trends,
and tools
Up Front / 6
ORACLE OPENWORLD
WRAP-UP / 10
Engineered for Innovation
A recap of the conference
EVENTS / 13
Find out about upcoming
technology and industry
events.
RESOURCES / 15
Your guide to Oracle
Webcasts, podcasts, white
papers, and more
BRIEFS / 18
The latest product news
NEWS / 21
The First Cloud OS
Oracle Solaris 11 provides
virtualization, availability,
and security for next-
generation cloud computing
environments. —Philip Gill
NEWS / 22
Engineered Systems
for General-Purpose
Computing
SPARC SuperCluster T4-4
delivers extreme performance
and value. —Fred Sandsmark
NEWS / 23
Social for Business
Oracle Social Network
delivers secure collaboration
tools for business users.
—Rich Schwerin
NEWS / 24
Go Big and Go Fast
New Oracle engineered
systems deliver big data and
high-speed visual analytics.
—Fred Sandsmark
At Oracle / 10
PARTNER NEWS / 28
BOOK BEAT / 28
COMMUNI T Y
BULLETIN / 31
Instructive and
Transformative
Oracle Open World 2011 was
an instructive experience
for participants and the
launch platform for a game-
changing technology.
—Justin Kestelyn
ARCHI TEC T / 32
Tools of the Trade
What’s in your architecture
toolbox? —Bob Rhubart
UP CLOSE / 34
Developing a Better
Community
A user group conference chair
puts community service on
the agenda. —Jeff Erickson
PEER-TO-PEER / 35
Demystifying IT
Susan Behn, Connor
McDonald, Rob Zoeteweij
—Blair Campbell
Community / 28
ORACLE ADF / 59
Security for Everyone
Protect your Oracle
ADF applications from
unauthorized access using
the Oracle ADF Security
feature. —Frank Nimphius
PL/SQL 101 / 65
Working with Dates
in PL/SQL
Part 5 in a series of articles
on understanding and using
PL/SQL —Steven Feuerstein
ASK TOM / 70
On History, Basics, and
Network Performance
Our technologist recalls a
Web seminar, gives the right
hint, and dishes on network
performance. —Tom Kyte
SQL 101 / 75
Getting Answers with
SELECT
Part 3 in a series on the
basics of the relational
database and SQL
—Melanie Caffrey
Technology / 59
IN THE FIELD / 79
Building the
Knowledgebase
IOUG survey results drive the
user group agenda, affect
product development, and
inform the wider public.
—Andy Flower
ANALYST’S
CORNER / 80
IT Management Takes Off
Today’s leading management
tools work with the entire
cloud lifecycle. —David Baum
Comment / 79
