Reading between the lines, and with over 20 years experience of working with Oracle E-Business Suite, when you say 'managing' data, what you really mean is 'analysing' data. I agree Oracle E-Business Suite is primarily a 'repository' for the data, and typically the analysis is done with Business Intelligence tools built on either the EBS database directly, or on a dedicated data warehouse. The canonical product you would use is Oracle BI, but there are free tools probably just as good like Pentaho, Jaspersoft et al. Probably the only major benefit of using Oracle BI is that it comes with E-Business Suite specific queries and dashboards pre-built and configured.
Speaking of making things more difficult than they should be, the ISO images for installation are not readily available for download. There is a heinous registration form but no promise of the ISOs even if you fill in the form (with either fake data or real). If Oracle is going to be serious about establishing a distro, it has got to be available at all the usual download sites along site CentOS, Debian and the other established distros.
Yeah, like you can download RHEL without having to buy a subscription, and without having to register or anything, and its a full version, not some crappy evaluation version. Oh, wait.....
"The Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel is available as binary RPM packages that can be installed from Oracle's public yum repository as well as the Unbreakable Linux Network. The kernel's source code is available via a public git source code repository from http://oss.oracle.com/git/?p=linux-uek-2.6.39.git"
No, it was because 'A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state'. They opposed the idea of having a standing army, because standing armies had been used against citizens in the revolutionary war and in other countries. The idea was that everyone would have a weapon so that in the event of the 'security of (the) free state' being threatened, 'a well regulated militia' could quickly form to remove the threat.
IIRC, the USA has a reasonably well-equipped defence force to deal with threats to the security of the USA (opposition to the idea of standing armies notwithstanding) so, yes, the 2nd amendment is past its use-by-date.
I must have missed the part on the x-plane website that shows how it can 'allow pilots to experience real-world combat situations' and 'is also configurable, which allows the evaluation of "novel systems and concepts"'
And where does it say that the AUD 1.7M is on software?
"While the idea of universal free happy healthy health care sounds sugary sweet, there are some dire consequences of handing our individual health to governmental control"
as opposed to handing your individual health to an HMO whose goal is to maximize the return to its share holders, partly by minimizing costs by refusing to pay for treatments. Assuming you can afford to be with an HMO in the first place.
re needing Oracle EE + Dataguard to get a standby database - you can still get a standby database with SE - DataGuard is just the framework that that makes managing a configuration easier, but with SE you can still set everything up manually ie configure remote log_archive_dest, and manually manage the standby ("recover managed standby database disconnect from session;") and failover.
Also, with 11g, RAC is now included with SE, but an option on EE (go figure).
The US Air Force, in charge of the commander-in-chief's longhaul transport, has issued a request for information under the banner "Presidential Aircraft Recapitalisation". As the airmen note, the existing VC-25 planes are modified Boeing 747-200s, a type which has now ceased service with airlines. This has made spare parts and tech support much more expensive than formerly.
According to the USAF, this means the time has come to get some new planes:
The Air Force conducted an Analysis of Alternatives to examine if it would be more cost effective to maintain the current Air Force One, or to buy a new aircraft. Given the diminishing parts supplier base, increasing maintenance time, and system upgrades that would be necessary to meet future air traffic control requirements, it was found that replacing the VC-25 was the most cost effective option.
Peter Hoddie [Apple]: "Are you really asking us to kill playback? Do you want us to knife the baby?" -- meaning QuickTime.
Christopher Phillips [Microsoft]: "Yes, we're talking about knifing the baby."
This dramatic exchange at a meeting in April 1997 was quoted by Dr Avadis Tevanian, Apple's senior Vice President for software, during the cross-examination by Microsoft attorney Theodore Edelman. Microsoft wanted Apple to drop QuickTime product and leave the multimedia playback market to Microsoft, while Apple concentrated on software tools for Internet content.
and
Dr Tevanian accused Microsoft of threatening to stop the development - important for Apple's business viability - of a new version of Microsoft Office for the Mac.
A Microsoft e-mail confirming this was introduced during the questioning of Bill Gates on video last week.
From "THE NEW NATIONALISM" by Theodore Roosevelt at Osawatomie, Kansas August 31, 1910
"It has become entirely clear that we must have government supervision of the capitalization, not only of public-service corporations, including, particularly, railways, but of all corporations doing an interstate business. I do not wish to see the nation forced into the ownership of the railways if it can possibly be avoided, and the only alternative is thoroughgoing and effective regulation, which shall be based on a full knowledge of all the facts, including a physical valuation of property. This physical valuation is not needed, or, at least, is very rarely needed, for fixing rates; but it is needed as the basis of honest capitalization.
We have come to recognize that franchises should never be granted except for a limited time, and never without proper provision for compensation to the public. It is my personal belief that the same kind and degree of control and supervision which should be exercised over public-service corporations should be extended also to combinations which control necessaries of life, such as meat, oil, and coal, or which deal in them on an important scale. I have not doubt that the ordinary man who has control of them is much like ourselves. I have no doubt he would like to do well, but I want to have enough supervision to help him realize that desire to do well. I believe that the officers, and, especially, the directors, of corporations should be held personally responsible when any corporation breaks the law.
Combinations in industry are the result of an imperative economic law which cannot be repealed by political legislation. The effort at prohibiting all combination has substantially failed. The way out lies, not in attempting to prevent such combinations, but in completely controlling them in the interest of the public welfare.....
The absence of effective State, and, especially, national, restraint upon unfair money-getting has tended to create a small class of enormously wealthy and economically powerful men, whose chief object is to hold and increase their power. The prime need is to change the conditions which enable these men to accumulate power which is not for the general welfare that they should hold or exercise. We grudge no man a fortune which represents his own power and sagacity, when exercised with entire regard to the welfare of his fellows. Again, comrades over there, take the lesson from your own experience. Not only did you not grudge, but you gloried in the promotion of the great generals who gained their promotion by leading the army to victory. So it is with us. We grudge no man a fortune in civil life if it is honorably obtained and well used. It is not even enough that it should have gained without doing damage to the community. We should permit it to be gained only so long as the gaining represents benefit to the community. This, I know, implies a policy of a far more active governmental interference with social and economic conditions in this country than we have yet had, but I think we have got to face the fact that such an increase in governmental control is now necessary.
No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned. Every dollar received should represent a dollar's worth of service rendered - not gambling in stocks, but service rendered. The really big fortune, the swollen fortune, by the mere fact of its size acquires qualities which differentiate it in kind as well as in degree from what is possessed by men of relatively small means. Therefore, I believe in a graduated income tax on big fortunes, and in another tax which is far more easily collected and far more effective - a graduated inheritance tax on big fortunes, properly safeguarded against evasion and increasing rapidly in amount with the size of the estate. The people of the United S
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But can you run a Beowulf cluster on it?
Haven't you seen 'Jurassic Park'? Nature always finds a way.
But with vested interests.
E.g. High Fructose Corn Syrup.
obviously this person has never heard of Ebay
"Business Intelligence"
Reading between the lines, and with over 20 years experience of working with Oracle E-Business Suite, when you say 'managing' data, what you really mean is 'analysing' data. I agree Oracle E-Business Suite is primarily a 'repository' for the data, and typically the analysis is done with Business Intelligence tools built on either the EBS database directly, or on a dedicated data warehouse. The canonical product you would use is Oracle BI, but there are free tools probably just as good like Pentaho, Jaspersoft et al. Probably the only major benefit of using Oracle BI is that it comes with E-Business Suite specific queries and dashboards pre-built and configured.
I once wrote a COBOL code generator, in COBOL
one of these
http://www.swisstechtools.com/proddetail.aspx?pid=5
I have one - has made it through various security checkpoints and x-rays, including airports and courts - no-one has ever questioned me about it
Solitaire for grown-ups....
Speaking of making things more difficult than they should be, the ISO images for installation are not readily available for download. There is a heinous registration form but no promise of the ISOs even if you fill in the form (with either fake data or real). If Oracle is going to be serious about establishing a distro, it has got to be available at all the usual download sites along site CentOS, Debian and the other established distros.
Yeah, like you can download RHEL without having to buy a subscription, and without having to register or anything, and its a full version, not some crappy evaluation version. Oh, wait.....
Oracle *database* is expensive. OEL is free.
And Linux Mint is just what a Fortune 500 company wants running their mission-critical systems.
https://oss.oracle.com/ol6/docs/RELEASE-NOTES-UEK2-en.html
which includes this little tid-bit
"The Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel is available as binary RPM packages that can be installed from Oracle's public yum repository as well as the Unbreakable Linux Network. The kernel's source code is available via a public git source code repository from http://oss.oracle.com/git/?p=linux-uek-2.6.39.git"
http://www.oracle.com/us/media/calculator/linuxtco/index.html
No, it was because 'A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state'. They opposed the idea of having a standing army, because standing armies had been used against citizens in the revolutionary war and in other countries. The idea was that everyone would have a weapon so that in the event of the 'security of (the) free state' being threatened, 'a well regulated militia' could quickly form to remove the threat.
IIRC, the USA has a reasonably well-equipped defence force to deal with threats to the security of the USA (opposition to the idea of standing armies notwithstanding) so, yes, the 2nd amendment is past its use-by-date.
http://www.axpo-kompogas.ch/index.php?path=home&lang=en
http://tstbob.blogspot.com/2009/05/retro-goodness-vintage-sexist-adverts.html
I must have missed the part on the x-plane website that shows how it can 'allow pilots to experience real-world combat situations' and 'is also configurable, which allows the evaluation of "novel systems and concepts"'
And where does it say that the AUD 1.7M is on software?
"While the idea of universal free happy healthy health care sounds sugary sweet, there are some dire consequences of handing our individual health to governmental control"
as opposed to handing your individual health to an HMO whose goal is to maximize the return to its share holders, partly by minimizing costs by refusing to pay for treatments. Assuming you can afford to be with an HMO in the first place.
So you must have missed where he said, right at the start
'I want to experiment at home...'
re needing Oracle EE + Dataguard to get a standby database - you can still get a standby database with SE - DataGuard is just the framework that that makes managing a configuration easier, but with SE you can still set everything up manually ie configure remote log_archive_dest, and manually manage the standby ("recover managed standby database disconnect from session;") and failover.
Also, with 11g, RAC is now included with SE, but an option on EE (go figure).
see http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/oracle11g/pdf/database-11g-product-family-technical-whitepaper.pdf
look up 'herd immunity' - IIRC, government is supposed to act in the interests of the general population.
According to The Register
The US Air Force, in charge of the commander-in-chief's longhaul transport, has issued a request for information under the banner "Presidential Aircraft Recapitalisation". As the airmen note, the existing VC-25 planes are modified Boeing 747-200s, a type which has now ceased service with airlines. This has made spare parts and tech support much more expensive than formerly.
According to the USAF, this means the time has come to get some new planes:
The Air Force conducted an Analysis of Alternatives to examine if it would be more cost effective to maintain the current Air Force One, or to buy a new aircraft. Given the diminishing parts supplier base, increasing maintenance time, and system upgrades that would be necessary to meet future air traffic control requirements, it was found that replacing the VC-25 was the most cost effective option.
"I'm Linux"
"No, I'm Linux!"
"I'm Linux, and so is my wife"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/special_report/1998/04/98/microsoft/210650.stm
Peter Hoddie [Apple]: "Are you really asking us to kill playback? Do you want us to knife the baby?" -- meaning QuickTime.
Christopher Phillips [Microsoft]: "Yes, we're talking about knifing the baby."
This dramatic exchange at a meeting in April 1997 was quoted by Dr Avadis Tevanian, Apple's senior Vice President for software, during the cross-examination by Microsoft attorney Theodore Edelman.
Microsoft wanted Apple to drop QuickTime product and leave the multimedia playback market to Microsoft, while Apple concentrated on software tools for Internet content.
and
Dr Tevanian accused Microsoft of threatening to stop the development - important for Apple's business viability - of a new version of Microsoft Office for the Mac.
A Microsoft e-mail confirming this was introduced during the questioning of Bill Gates on video last week.
find . -name "shell pattern"
From "THE NEW NATIONALISM" by Theodore Roosevelt at Osawatomie, Kansas August 31, 1910
"It has become entirely clear that we must have government supervision
of the capitalization, not only of public-service corporations,
including, particularly, railways, but of all corporations doing an
interstate business. I do not wish to see the nation forced into the
ownership of the railways if it can possibly be avoided, and the only
alternative is thoroughgoing and effective regulation, which shall be
based on a full knowledge of all the facts, including a physical
valuation of property. This physical valuation is not needed, or, at
least, is very rarely needed, for fixing rates; but it is needed as
the basis of honest capitalization.
We have come to recognize that franchises should never be granted
except for a limited time, and never without proper provision for
compensation to the public. It is my personal belief that the same
kind and degree of control and supervision which should be exercised
over public-service corporations should be extended also to
combinations which control necessaries of life, such as meat, oil, and
coal, or which deal in them on an important scale. I have not doubt
that the ordinary man who has control of them is much like ourselves.
I have no doubt he would like to do well, but I want to have enough
supervision to help him realize that desire to do well. I believe that
the officers, and, especially, the directors, of corporations should
be held personally responsible when any corporation breaks the law.
Combinations in industry are the result of an imperative economic law ....
which cannot be repealed by political legislation. The effort at
prohibiting all combination has substantially failed. The way out
lies, not in attempting to prevent such combinations, but in
completely controlling them in the interest of the public welfare.
The absence of effective State, and, especially, national, restraint
upon unfair money-getting has tended to create a small class of
enormously wealthy and economically powerful men, whose chief object
is to hold and increase their power. The prime need is to change the
conditions which enable these men to accumulate power which is not for
the general welfare that they should hold or exercise. We grudge no
man a fortune which represents his own power and sagacity, when
exercised with entire regard to the welfare of his fellows. Again,
comrades over there, take the lesson from your own experience. Not
only did you not grudge, but you gloried in the promotion of the great
generals who gained their promotion by leading the army to victory. So
it is with us. We grudge no man a fortune in civil life if it is
honorably obtained and well used. It is not even enough that it should
have gained without doing damage to the community. We should permit it
to be gained only so long as the gaining represents benefit to the
community. This, I know, implies a policy of a far more active
governmental interference with social and economic conditions in this
country than we have yet had, but I think we have got to face the fact
that such an increase in governmental control is now necessary.
No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly
earned. Every dollar received should represent a dollar's worth of
service rendered - not gambling in stocks, but service rendered. The
really big fortune, the swollen fortune, by the mere fact of its size
acquires qualities which differentiate it in kind as well as in degree
from what is possessed by men of relatively small means. Therefore, I
believe in a graduated income tax on big fortunes, and in another tax
which is far more easily collected and far more effective - a
graduated inheritance tax on big fortunes, properly safeguarded
against evasion and increasing rapidly in amount with the size of the
estate. The people of the United S