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About six weeks ago, I wrote, with my colleagues here at Pythian, an open letter to Larry Ellison, imploring him and Oracle to free API-level access to Automated Workload Repository (AWR) and Active Session History (ASH). This letter has received amazing support from the community, with 158 “signatories” at last count, and many other positive comments.
We received an informal but cordial response from Oracle two or three days after we couriered the letter to them, which said we could expect a formal reply soon.
I rushed into my favorite book, Oracle Database Licensing Information – 11g Release 1. Guess what? We now have 4 new opportunities to do business with Oracle. I still miss the price list. As if you could look at a new Release without the price ;)
Now for some logrolling at its finest. I thought I’d try to help Sheeri, the MySQL She-BA, spread the word about the 21st episode of her OurSQL podcast as it is the second of a two-part interview with Pythian pres. Paul Vallée. The topic is, “The Rise of the MySQL DBA.”
I am sad to report that my RSS feed for oracle-wtf definitely made me say WTF! but not in a good way. Actually visiting the site confirmed my suspicion, it’s been hi-jacked by a splogger.
Let’s focus on what 11g is all about. The main message I got is that Oracle 11g is the consumer release. According to Mr. Phillips, what this means is that Oracle has listened to its clients and has worked in the areas that the consumers needed the most. The fact that Ari Kaplan, the president of the IOUG, was on stage during the launch speaks for itself. As for what’s new in 11g, three major features come to mind…
Last week, in collaboration with several of my colleagues here at Pythian, I published an open letter to Larry Ellison. The response to this letter has been — well — surprising, both in volume and in character. It is clear that many in the Oracle community seem to share the sentiments that we have expressed. In fact, we know that we are not alone in this endeavour.
15 years ago, with the release of Oracle 7.0.12, Oracle gave the world—or at least its customers—something really great: the Oracle Wait Interface (OWI). We believe that the Oracle database software is the best instrumented database software available. The fact that Oracle already leads the industry in this regard probably led to their decision to make this leap forward in instrumentation an extra-cost item. However, in the interest of making Oracle even better, we would like to invite readers to join us in signing the following open letter to Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle Corporation.
A few month ago I posted about my indignation regarding the inability to change my email address on OTN. Now, I’m not only able to change my email address, but also the screen name (I don’t think I do that before either). In the end, it took Oracle just 2 months and 5 days to follow up on my post. Not too bad, considering that OTN forums were full of complaints for years! ;-)
I’m looking forward to the announcement of the next Oracle database version. It’ll be interesting to see how it’s going to be named. It’s been known so far as 11g but I expect an update on 11th of July.
Greetings everyone. I would like to announce that last weekend the BAAG party was born. If you are tired of observing troubleshooting by guessing day by day, by day, by day, by … — join the forces of BAAG party. We can make a difference together! See you there.
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