Archive for November, 2007

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

Impressions from Oracle OpenWorld 2007

Oracle OpenWorld came and went. I had some interesting sessions which I’ll summarize shortly, some less interesting sessions, lots of beer and a great concert by Billy Joel and Lenny Kravitz. I arrived in SF on Friday night from Philadelphia (after being selected again at the airport for “random” inspection). I had several interesting meetings [...]

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Saturday, November 17th, 2007

Propagating Middle-Tier and Application Users to the DBMS (Part 3 of 3)

Well, finally I’m writing the third part of the blog. The thing that pushed me to finish this was a talk I had with Tim Hall of Oracle-base fame after his Unconference presentation in Oracle OpenWorld. Tim told me that his Java developers are claiming that adding user context information in an already existing application [...]

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Sunday, November 4th, 2007

PCI Grows Teeth

The rumors about my death have been greatly exaggerated, to paraphrase Mark Twain. I guess I’m a burst-blogger, at least for as long I’m also the CTO of a growing start-up.
The credit card companies started to make good on their threats and levy hefty fines like this one issued against TJX and its banks. This [...]

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