The first release candidate for PostgreSQL 9.0 is out with a host of new features in tow, including binary replication. - The first release candidate for PostgreSQL 9.0 has hit the street with built-in binary replication technology.
Expected to be ready for final release sometime this month, the release candidate represents a significant overhaul for the database, said Josh Berkus, PostgreSQL core team member.

MySQL Essentials Part 4: How to Develop Simple .NET Applications for MySQL | Live Webinar - September 30, 2010 "In this webinar we will explore the use of MySQL as the underlying database for .NET applications. Using several example...

Better Price/Performance Numbers Using Both RAID 5 and 6
Using the SPC Benchmark-1 to determine price-performance ratios for a number of storage systems, the benchmark delivered results that demonstrate a 1.9 X advantage for the Sun Storage [...]

Oracle Sun Storage 6180 Array Uses Multipathing
The Sun BestPerf blog Transparent Failover with Solaris MPxIO and Oracle ASM is a report by Akiko Marti on configuring failover with Solaris MPxIO (Multipathing), Oracle Automatic Storage Management [...]

Delivers Substantial Acceleration of Synchronous Writes
By hiding the write latency of disks and thereby enabling the use of economical, high-capacity drives, Logzilla, a key component of the ZFS Hybrid Storage Pool, can accelerate synchronous writes, [...]

EMC recently introduced the Celerra VG2 & VG8 NAS Gateway platforms which replace the previous generation EMC Celerra NS-G2 & NS-G8 Gateway products. EMC Celerra Gateway products function as dedicated network servers, connected via a back-end SAN to storage resources provided by CLARiiON and/or Symmetrix Arrays. This combination allows NAS...

EMC recently introduced the Celerra VG2 & VG8 NAS Gateway platforms which replace the previous generation EMC Celerra NS-G2 & NS-G8 Gateway products. EMC Celerra Gateway products function as dedicated network servers, connected via a back-end SAN to storage resources provided by CLARiiON and/or Symmetrix Arrays. This combination allows NAS...

Event Registration (EVENT: 220923) (tags: ping.fm) On Demand Webcast: Technical Best Practices for Accelerating Linux Deployments with Oracle Validated Configurations Oracle Validated Configurations are pre-tested architectures spanning software, hardware, storage, and network components, documented as best practice guides and...

Summer in Idaho is treasured all the more since it is all too brief. We had a long, cold spring - my lilacs were two months behind those of friends and family on the east coast - and some flowers that normally do well here never did poke their colorful heads out of the ground.

Sun Hardware, Oracle Software Combine to Satisfy Telcoms’ Need for New Services
Two new Sun Netra servers - Sun Netra CP3270 Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture (ATCA) blade server and Sun Netra X4270 AC and DC carrier-grade rack [...]

Dedicated Sessions, Keynotes and Demos on the Agenda
What can partners expect at the upcoming Oracle OpenWorld 2010? The company has a full line-up of partner activities, beginning with the Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) Forum on Sunday Sept. [...]

Adds XHTML Component, Blackberry Support, Enhanced Virtual Keyboard
Light Weight User Interface Toolkit (LWUIT) is a UI library targeted for mass-market mobile devices. The open source technology offers advanced UI capabilities and a clean API that is [...]

Enterprise Software Development with Java: Mobile GlassFish Admin GUI with HTML 5 and the iPad "If you have read my iPad for Business? posts (part 1 | part 2) you already know, that the device is hot and nearly...

Without Having to Use the Command Line
Last month’s patch updates to the Sun Ray Server Software enabled smart card support for the Oracle Virtual Desktop Desktop Client (OVDC), formerly the Sun Desktop Access Client. Documentation [...]

The Best Open Source Software for Business
For some years now, InfoWorld has been assessing open source applications and naming “best of” winners in its Best of Open Source Software (Bossie) Awards program. The report of this year’s winners includes VirtualBox as well as an informative history of open source applications and [...]

Scheduled for Sept. 9
Oracle’s Enterprise Java Cloud Strategies Virtual Conference will take place on September 9. This interactive virtual conference will consider the latest features and best practices for using Oracle WebLogic Suite 11g, with [...]

If you’ve attended Oracle OpenWorld or Oracle Develop in the past you’ve probably spent some time in the OTN Lounge, helping yourself to coffee and energy drinks in the morning, beer in the afternoon, and t-shirts, software, and other...

I had the opportunity to spend the day (plus some additional time) this week with a group of about 20 influencers (analysts, bloggers, press) at the Workday Technology Summit.  It is not the first time a group of influencers have been brought together by a vendor for in-depth discussions.  However, this was a little unique because it was relatively small group that largely knew one another and were avid participants in social media (specifically Twitter).  The insights, not to mention the volume, from this online conversation was impressive (see #Workdaytech on Twitter).

Best Practice Standards for Security Configurations
The Center for Internet Security (CIS) is a non-profit enterprise that provides enterprises with consensus best practice standards for security configurations. In July, CIS released its Security Configuration Benchmark for [...]

Podcast: IT Optimization - Part 1 Oracle ACE Director Basheer Khan and Oracle Enterprise Architects Alan Levine and Paul Silverstein discuss the business symptoms of unoptimized IT and how business stakeholders are sometimes unaware that there's a problem. (tags:...

A Programmatic Approach to Understanding Java EE and GlassFish Security
Author Masoud Kalali sets out to teach users of the open source GlassFish application server how to secure Java EE artifacts (like Servlets and EJB methods), configure [...]

Focus is on Enhancements in Java EE, GlassFish, WebLogic, Java, PHP
NetBeans IDE 6.10 Milestone 1 is a stabilized development build. Areas affected by this release include Java EE, GlassFish, WebLogic, Editor, Java, JUnit, and PHP. The final release of NetBeans IDE 6.10 is planned for January 2011.

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Mounting Root Filesystem of Zone to a Proper Mountpoint
During an upgrade from OpenSolaris build 118 to build 134, one user found after a month’s use he had forgotten to upgrade zones and noticed related issues with [...]

With Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems, the company made changes to its software support structure. As part of those changes, apparently gone was Oracle’s support service for the Solaris operating system on non-Oracle Sun x86 hardware. More recently, other companies such as IBM and Hewlett-Packard, who had agreements with the...

On the OTN Garage Blog: Migrating from VMWare to VirtualBox: Oracle Enterprise Linux

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Andrejus Baranovskis: Migrating User Personalizations and Customizations in WebCenter Spaces Oracle ACE Director Andrejus Baranovsk takes you step-by-step through the process. (tags: oracle otn oracleace enterprise2.0 webcenter)...

Now used by more big technology companies, open-source software has become a weapon in corporate warfare.