by Douwe Pieter van den Bos on October 4, 2011 · 1 comment
This week is Oracle OpenWorld 2011. Yesterday afternoon I gave my session on incorporating Oracle Application Express within the Oracle SOA Suite. Because of the large amount of questions I got to publish my presentation online, here it is.
When looking at Oracle Application Express we learn that we can use it perfectly for generating User Interfaces on top of datasources. These sources don’t necessarily have to be inside the database. Since APEX 4.0 there are great possibilities to consume web services in a APEX environment, when we use these as our datasources (and even as our Business Logic layer) we can incorporate the power of APEX within the Oracle SOA Suite.
In the presentation I show two great examples on how you can use this in real live. Extending functionality of both Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle CRM On Demand using the SOA Suite and Application Express. There are a lot more examples to think of.
by Douwe Pieter van den Bos on September 22, 2011 · 0 comments
Since the release of the (first) Oracle Exadata Database Machine in 2009 and the soon followed acquisition of Sun Microsystems in 2010 Oracle is in the Hardware business. Not a bad position to stand in. But sales are not as promised and one of the large complaints about the Exadata (Database) and ExaLogic (Middleware) machines an often heard complaint is that the machines are simply ‘too big’. And it’s probably true. An Exadata machine can hold an extremely large Data Warehouse, but will it effectively run your database applications with economics in mind? But we have to take into account that the Exadata machine offers great flexibility and extra features we would love to see on other database machines.
So now, just a week before Oracle OpenWorld 2011, the answer is here. Oracle now offers us the Oracle Database Appliance. (Sounds as if we’re dealing with fancy kitchen machines, doesn’t it?) It’s a full grown machine that offers flexibility and some of the neat features the Exadata machine offers us. Only, this time it’s smaller. The flexibility mainly lies in the fact that Oracle offers an increasable licensing model with it.
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