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Oracle should learn a lesson from Linux
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| Oracle is a big world wide database company.
| They produce large and complicated ERP
| systems whose size, just for the
| applications side, number in the range of
| sixty plus gigabytes. Naturally a software
| solution of such a large scale needs to be
| maintained and patched every now and then.
| Heck, any software project, no matter what
| size, needs the same thing.
|
| [...]
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| What Oracle should do is standardise it's
| patching procedures so it is the same
| procedure no matter what patch, be it one
| off or cumulative update, needs to be
| installed. Then they need to have a package
| manager developed which will download and
| install those patches from a specified
| repository. I believe that the type of
| package management used by Linux will scale
| up to Oracle's size quite well and work for
| all supported operating systems in applying
| and maintaining patches.
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http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/locutus/oracle-should-learn-a-lesson-from-linux-36371
Oracle Patches Two Dozen Flaws
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| Oracle is now out with its first quarterly
| critical patch update (CPU) of 2010, fixing
| 24 flaws spread across Oracle's product
| portfolio. Affected products include
| Oracle's namesake database server as well as
| the Oracle Application Server, E-Business
| Suite, Secure Backup, PeopleSoft Enterprise
| and WebLogic Servers.
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http://www.esecurityplanet.com/features/article.phpr/3858341/article.htm
Proprietary software is too monolithic.
Recent:
Oracle commits: MySQL will have a future
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| In order to appease European regulators, Oracle
| has made a number of commitments to the future
| of MySQL.
|
| According to a statement overnight (Australian
| time), Oracle has made a number of public
| commitments regarding MySQL in order to ease
| the concerns of European Union regulators
| investigating the proposed Oracle â Sun merger.
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http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=30052&Itemid=53
Oracle customers and MySQL users speak out
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| Behind closed doors, over Thursday and
| Friday, the European Commission has been
| holding a hearing on the proposed
| acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle.
| The Wall Street Journal reports that
| several Oracle customers, including the
| Spanish bank BBVA, Vodafone UK, the
| National Health Service and the Oracle
| user group, spoke in support of the
| acquisition. The hearing had been preceded
| by an initiative by Oracle to mobilise
| customers to speak out on the Commission's
| objections to the takeover.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Oracle-customers-and-MySQL-users-speak-out-884416.html
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