We’ll head out to yet another Oracle OpenWorld even this year. Drop us a line and come see us October 2-6 in San Francisco! If you haven’t already, click the below image to register! As usual, it’s going to be fun…and if you haven’t already heard, this year’s Appreciation Event features Sting as well as Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers!
Bigmon Cloud Monitoring Saved My Site
Over the years, the M&S Consulting site has grown quite a bit. We have hundreds of blog articles and have retired more pages of content than are currently active. By introducing Bigmon Cloud into our environment, we realized — to our surprise — that our site was one of the slower loading sites when compared to other sites we have built, either for internal project or customers. By using Bigmon metrics reporting and trending, we were able to test mechanisms for speeding up the site and moving performance into a place we felt was acceptable. Then, we were able to … Read More
Four Middleware 11g Servers — Here we go!
We just started into installs for four middleware servers for a customer. These will each run DB, WebLogic, IdM, SOA/BPM, UCM, and WebCenter — all 11g. There’s nothing like getting fresh, fast, functionally-useless hardware and turning it into a powerful piece of problem-solving equipment. – Historic M&S Dogma
Oracle ECM vs UCM — What’s the difference?
I’m starting to see Oracle ECM get mixed with Oracle UCM more these days when people talk about Oracle’s Content Management offering(s). Sometimes I wonder if this kind of confusion isn’t premeditated by marketing managers, but that’s another story. So, here’s the scoop (and though I say this confidently, I find myself compelled to disclaim that this is the scoop as I understand it, and as Oracle is using these terms as of the date of publication). For starters: ECM stands for Enterprise Content Management UCM stands for Universal Content Management “Oracle Content Management” offerings are also referred to as … Read More
IBM Attacks Oracle Middleware
IBM has published a page on their commercial website that questions why a customer would pay more for less, taking direct aim at Oracle and specifically Oracle Middleware offerings surrounding SOA and WebLogic. Like other competitive material published by software vendors, highlighted areas will tend to focus on one-sided statistics. Consumers today expect valid information that is easily accessible/verifiable, so — not surprisingly — this page has a references section at the bottom as well. The thing that does surprise me with these claims is the important information that is left out. When we pick solutions for a customer, we … Read More
Oracle Identity Management IdM/OID 11g Patch Set 3 (PS3) 11.1.1.4 Download for Windows, Linux, etc.
Unlike WebCenter, SOA/BPM, WebLogic Server, and other products in the recent Middleware 11g PS3 release from Oracle, Identity Management 11g PS3 (11.1.1.4) is not yet available as a full download on oracle.com yet. What you need to do until they get the uploads posted is download 11.1.1.2 from the Identity Management 11g download page and then download 11.1.1.4 from My Oracle Support (aka Metalink) by finding patch set 11060980. I know it took me a little to find this, so hopefully this helps someone until the release is available on the public-facing website.
Oracle WebCenter 11g Patch Set 3 (PS3) 11.1.1.4 Download for Windows, Linux, etc.
Oracle has now officially released WebCenter 11g PS3 (11.1.1.4). You can download it online as of today (Jan 25, 2011). This marks a major leap in WebCenter’s capabilities and maturity as an Enterprise 2.0 Collaboration Portal. Look for more information on the M&S blog to come.
Middleware 11g Patch Set 3 (PS3) 11.1.1.4 = Oracle Middleware 12g? …and Where’s WebCenter?
Oracle has made some major improvements in 11g PS3 for multiple products in the Middleware offering. If they don’t consider this a major release (aka 12g), I can’t want to see what will actually be part of 12g. Exciting stuff.
[box type=”info”]We have been working with pre-release versions of WebCenter 11g PS3 for a while, so a bit disappointed that didn’t make it into the release date, but we’re hoping that will be soon to follow.[/box]
New versions of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g R1 (11.1.1.4.x) include…