OOW2008 day 2 – Oracle Beehive

Written by Paweł Barut
This day started with Keynote presented by Oracle President Charles Phillips. He spoke about Oracle acquisitions, and more complete portfolio of products that Oracle have now. What caught my attention most was announcement of new product, new collaboration platform Oracle Beehive. It joins features of email, calendar, document sharing, web conference and few more in one suite. What is most important those tools are open, so user can use ex. MS Outlook to access mails or calendar entries. Security is one of the key features. When you share document with others, they can see document in theirs workspace. They can even make local copy of this document. When document is deleted by original author, then all copies of the document become unusable for anyone. This is because all shared documents are encrypted and signed. While opening document there is validation of access rights for document. For me it seems as this is based on technology acquired from Stallent. It seems that this product will try to get market from MS Sharepoint and IBM Lotus.

Today I took some time to see Exhibition Hall, and walk around the city. While walking I’ve found one interesting bus – I was Bus that was advertising Microsoft SQLServer:

It looks pretty old :). Microsoft does not want to be absent in San Francisco during Oracle’s big conference.

I’ve also participated in few session on SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) and AIA (Applications Integration Architecture). Basically I wanted to have better understanding of Oracle offering in SOA area.

Cheers,
Paweł

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Related Articles on Paweł Barut blog:

• Oracle OpenWorld 2008
• Preparing for Oracle OpenWorld 2008
• Arriving San Francisco – OOW2008 day 1.
• OOW2008 day 2 – Oracle Beehive
• OOW2008 day 3
• OOW2008 day 4 – HP-Oracle Exadata Server Announcement = Extreme Performance
• OOW2008 day 5 – It’s A Wrap

„Do not use Linux, please, pirate our software” - Microsoft

It seems that Microsoft wants You to pirate it's software. According to The Register, Jeff Raikes, Microsoft business group president, said that if You have to pirate, You should pirate Microsoft software. The idea behind it is that some percentage of pirates become paying customers. Microsoft wants You to:

• pay and use MS software,
• use MS software not paying for it; might be in future you will pay,
• not use other software. Microsoft does not want You to switch to competing software, especially legal royalty-free FLOSS software such as Linux, OpenOffice.org or Mozilla.org

So why they implemented Windows Genuine Advantage Programme, if they do not want to push You to be legal? Paweł

Visual SourceSafe - Invalid DOS Path

I hate wrong error messages. I hate messages that lead me in wrong direction. Yesterday I've spend too much time on resolving problem with VSS. I had to add new user to VSS. Pretty simple task.
I've started and bang: "Invalid DOS PATH \\server\vss\project\users"
I've checked path - it's OK.
Double checked. Again the same error.
I've checked my privileges - Full access.
I've made local copy of VSS repository - still the same problem.

It's time to search for solution on Internet.
Few click, and I've got it: no template.ini file in \\server\vss\project\users catalog.
So, I've copied ss.ini of one user to template.ini, removed unneeded lines, and task completed.
Full description of solution.

Whenever you are programming, please, make sure that error messages are meaningful to users. Try to give as many details as possible, it will help to solve problem.

Cheers, Paweł