Aug 302005
 

Oracle is releasing a lot at the moment, and this time it is Release 2 (Phase 2, as they like to call it) of their 10g Application Server. The complete download is about 1.8GByte (3 CD’s), that you can find here. More platforms (Windows, Linux x86 and Sun Solaris are complete now) will follow in time.

 Posted by at 09:27
Aug 302005
 

Oracle announced the availability of the Zend Core for Oracle. It still is a beta version, the production version being available later this year. This release is based on PHP5, and has native OCI8 Oracle connections, supporting connections to Oracle 9i and 10g databases. You can read the FAQ about it here, or just view the main page.

Please note: only Linux and AIX versions are available now.

 Posted by at 00:20
Aug 162005
 

David Intersimone, by most known as “David I”, is a respectable employer of Borland (already 20 years, he claims). In the latest post on his weblog, he shows us a graphical presentation of the development of software-development itself. Of course one can not help but noticing the similarities in the way Borland/Inprise/Borland developped itselves over the years. Switching from lots of small fish (individual developers) to a couple of really big fish (the enterprises). To stay with the fishing-analogy: if you want to catch more fish to bring in more money, why not expand your fleet with some large ships to bring in the really large fish, and keep the smaller boats to supply the market with small fish too. No, Borland sees it differently: sell the smaller ships to buy a new big boat. As we all know, big fish are more difficult to find, harder to catch, and you can only handle a couple of them with one boat. I’m not sure if this is the winning strategy. I complained about it before (do a search): Borland is getting too expensive for the one-man-band companies out there.

Oh, and while looking at the graph, which side did you feel most comfortable with? Left or right? Another thing: what’s the difference between “2000 – Process Centric” and “2005+ – Role based”? Let me tell you: none. Processes are done by certain roles, if you have your organisation straight. There is more history-repeats-itselves in the graph, but that is up to the reader.

Note: The x-axis is used for the timescale, the y-axis is the price of the Borland products, with an exponentional-scale to allow (misleading) linear progression.

 Posted by at 09:55
Aug 092005
 

Tripp pointed me to it: Konfabulator. A strange name for a nice technology. Not revolutionairy in what it accomplishes, but revolutionairy in the way that it works on both Windows and MacOS. Konfabulator is (as they say themselves) a “Javascript runtime engine … that lets you run little files called Widgets that can do pretty much whatever you want them to.” I guess (from what I know now) is that you can best compare it to XAML, with added MacOS support and a completely open format. For free.

 Posted by at 10:21
Aug 052005
 

Oracle did not release the real thing yet, but a developers release for Windows. Basically it means the same thing as Early Adaptor release, or “we’re not quite sure, but we can’t let you wait anymore” release. Almost a month behind the Linux release, and still no production version!

Go to Oracle 10g page by clicking here.

 Posted by at 01:35
Aug 052005
 

If you received an errormessage trying to reach this blog (or trying to send mail to rare-it.com), than it should be solved (hey, you’re reading the blog now, so I guess it’s true!). My domains were expired. I thought DirectNic would send me an email when it was about to happen, but this year they did not. So I forgot. With me being employed by Sogeti, I’m not sure what will happen next year. But with the current dollar-euro-rate, I thought $30 for 2 domains was not something to worry about.

 Posted by at 01:21