Oracle Advanced Security is an optional licenced Oracle 11g Database add-on. Oracle Advanced Security Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) offers two different features: column encryption and tablespace encryption. 11.2.0.1 TDE Column encryption was certified with E-Business Suite 12 as part of our overall 11.2.0.1 database certification. As of today, 11.2.0.1 TDE Tablespace encryption is now certified with Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.
No, I'm not writing about Unix or Linux root, as fitting as the title would be for that. I'm actually writing about experiences that are so positive that they take hold of us and make us want to repeat them. Much like a seed taking root in the ground, these experiences take root in us. Some things really take root with me.
We plan to certify Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11i and 12 with Microsoft Office 2010. This article summarizes our latest plans as of May 2010.
Upcoming Webcast
Title: Setup & Usage of Document Sequencing in Oracle Receivables
Date: May 20, 2010
Time: 11:00 am EDT
Product Family: Receivables Community
Upcoming Webcast
Title: Setup & Usage of Document Sequencing in Oracle Receivables
Date: May 20, 2010
Time: 11:00 am EDT
Product Family: Receivables Community
Premier Support for the 10gR2 database ends in July 2010. If you haven't already started planning your 11g database upgrade, we recommend that you start soon. We have certified both the 11gR1 (11.1.0.7) and 11gR2 (11.2.0.1) databases with Oracle E-Business Suite; see this blog's Certification summary to links to articles with the details.
Our Applications Performance Group has reminded me that they have a whitepaper loaded with practical tips intended to make your 11g database upgrade easier. No empty marketing rhetoric here -- this is strictly written for DBAs.

Sometimes you're searching for something online and you find an unrelated, bonus nugget.
In mid-February the Bipartisan Policy Center in the United States hosted Cyber ShockWave, a simulation of how the country might respond to a catastrophic cyber event. An attack takes place, they can't isolate where it came from or who did it, simulated press reports and market impacts...and the participants in the exercise have to brief the President and advise him/her on what to do.
Last week, Former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff who participated in the exercise summarized his findings in Federal Computer Weekly.