• 2012 Real World Performance Tour Dates |Performance Tuning | Performance Engineering
  www.ioug.org
  Coming to your town: a full day of real world database performance with Tom Kyte, Andrew Holdsworth, and Graham Wood. Rochester, NY - March 8 Los Angeles, CA - April 30 Orange County, CA - May 1 Redwood Shores, CA - May 3
• Oracle Technology Network Developer Day: MySQL - New York
  www.oracle.com
  Wednesday, May 02, 2012 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM Grand Hyatt New York 109 East 42nd Street, Grand Central Terminal New York, NY 10017
• Webcast Series: Data Warehousing Best Practices
  event.on24.com
  
  • April 19, 2012 - Best Practices for Workload Management of a Data Warehouse on Oracle Exadata
  • May 10, 2012 - Best Practices for Extreme Data Warehouse Performance on Oracle Exadata
• Webcast: Untangle Your Business with Oracle Unified SOA and Data Integration
  event.on24.com
  Date: Tuesday, April 24, 2012
  Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET
  Speakers:
  • Mala Narasimharajan - Senior Product Marketing Manager, Oracle Data Integration, Oracle
  • Bruce Tierney - Director of Product Marketing, Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle
• The Increasing Focus on Architecture
  (ArchBeat) blogs.oracle.com
  As a "third wave" of computing, Cloud computing is changing how IT organizations and individuals within those organizations approach the creation of solutions.
• Updated SOA Documents now available in ITSO Reference Library
  blogs.oracle.com
  Nine updated documents have just been added to the IT Strategies from Oracle library, including SOA Practitioner Guides, SOA Reference Architectures, and SOA White Papers and Data Sheets. Access to all documents within the ITSO library is free to those with a free Oracle.com membership.
• WebLogic JMS Clustering and Spring | Rene van Wijk
  middlewaremagic.com
  Oracle ACE Rene van Wijk sets up a WebLogic cluster that includes a JMS environment, which will be used by Spring.
• Running Built-In Test Simulator with SOA Suite Healthcare 11g in PS4 and PS5 | Shub Lahiri
  blogs.oracle.com
  Shub Lahiri shows how the pre-installed simulator that comes with the SOA Suite for Healthcare Integration pack can be used as an external endpoint to generate inbound and outbound HL7 traffic on specified MLLP ports.
• In the cloud era, let's start calling IT what it is: 'Innovation Team' | Joe McKendrick
  www.zdnet.com
  Cloud, the third great shift in 50 years of computing, presents a golden opportunity for IT to get out in front and lead.

Thought for the Day

"Why do we never have time to do it right, but always have time to do it over?"

— Anonymous