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		<title>Recent Changes to Oracle SE Licensing Rules: Higher Price?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 21:35:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, while answering a question, I came across what appeared to be a change to the rules for licensing Oracle Standard Edition &#8212; a change that appears to be subtle on the surface, but one that could have significant and surprising repercussions. It was with considerable fanfare that Oracle announced, several years ago, the last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oracle Configuration Manager:  Bane or Blessing?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:52:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Brinsmead</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not sure how long this has been out there, but there is a new (to me) headline on Oracle&#8217;s support website, announcing that next month, they will be phasing out &#8220;manual configuration&#8221; information for service requests. Customers are now required to download and install something called Oracle Configuration Manager (OCM), which will gather their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Letter to Oracle: the Response So Far</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 16:50:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Brinsmead</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8220;signatories&#8221; at last count, and many other positive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Postscript to &#8220;An Open Letter to Larry Ellison&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2007 21:17:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Brinsmead</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8212; well &#8212; 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. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Open Letter to Larry Ellison on AWR and ASH Licensing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jun 2007 01:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Brinsmead</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please note this late-breaking news related to this story. Then still please sign our letter! 15 years ago, with the release of Oracle 7.0.12, Oracle gave the world&#8212;or at least its customers&#8212;something really great: the Oracle Wait Interface (OWI). The OWI is one of the reasons that Oracle&#8217;s database product and its customer base are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Silly DBA Tricks 1:  Editing the SPFILE</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Apr 2006 16:56:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Brinsmead</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is an article I posted on the Oracle-L mailing list recently. Much to my surprise, people liked it enough that they asked to see it here, too. This was written in response to the question: &#8220;How do you edit an SPFILE?&#8221; &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; There are lots of ways to do this &#8212; some supported; most [...]]]></description>
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