| CVE Description | CVSSv2 Base Score | Component | Product and Resolution | ||
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| CVE-2013-2561 Link Following vulnerability | 6.3 | OpenFabrics ibutils |
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This notification describes vulnerabilities fixed in third-party components that are included in Oracle's product distributions.
Information about vulnerabilities affecting Oracle products can be found on Oracle Critical Patch Updates and Security Alerts page.
Our Friends at ODTUG are hosting the Worldwide APEX Theming Competition.
This is your opportunity to create APEX themes and have them viewed by the entire international APEX community. The winner will be crowned 2014 ODTUG APEX Theme Developer of the Year at Kscope14 during the Sunday APEX Symposium on June 22, 2014.
Here's what you need to know:
Submissions are now open.
Submissions close on May 15, 2014.
Winners will be announced on June 22, 2014
Each submission will be examined for technical quality. All submitted themes must be validated successfully against current web standards. Participants should ensure their applications are compatible across all major web browsers, e.g. Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Internet Explorer. Technical correctness is essential.
We all know a well-designed web application must adapt to a wide variety of screen sizes and user interfaces. So Usability and responsiveness is a highly valued criteria, as is Aesthetic appeal. The technical difficulty of how the theme was conceptualized and the design/development process will also be evaluated, with extra points being awarded to submissions that demonstrate use of tools and frameworks, accessibility and reusability for themes that are compatible with at least 2 other packaged applications.
Head over here to get the full story on how to submit.
And the contest rules are here.
Thank you Dimitri Gielis for the great blog presenting Advanced Responsive Design in APEX. A must read to Get Started With Your APEX Theming Competition submission.
Good Luck!
Ciao for now,
LKR
| CVE Description | CVSSv2 Base Score | Component | Product and Resolution | ||||
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| CVE-2013-6462 Buffer Errors vulnerability | 9.3 | X.Org |
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Information about vulnerabilities affecting Oracle products can be found on Oracle Critical Patch Updates and Security Alerts page.
| CVE Description | CVSSv2 Base Score | Component | Product and Resolution | ||||||
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| CVE-2014-0591 Buffer Errors vulnerability | 2.6 | Bind |
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This notification describes vulnerabilities fixed in third-party components that are included in Oracle's product distributions.
Information about vulnerabilities affecting Oracle products can be found on Oracle Critical Patch Updates and Security Alerts page.
| CVE Description | CVSSv2 Base Score | Component | Product and Resolution | ||
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| CVE-2008-0386 Improper Input Validation vulnerability | 6.8 | Xdg-utils |
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This notification describes vulnerabilities fixed in third-party components that are included in Oracle's product distributions.
Information about vulnerabilities affecting Oracle products can be found on Oracle Critical Patch Updates and Security Alerts page.
| CVE Description | CVSSv2 Base Score | Component | Product and Resolution | ||
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| CVE-2013-5745 Input Validation vulnerability | 7.1 | Vino |
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This notification describes vulnerabilities fixed in third-party components that are included in Oracle's product distributions.
Information about vulnerabilities affecting Oracle products can be found on Oracle Critical Patch Updates and Security Alerts page.
| CVE Description | CVSSv2 Base Score | Component | Product and Resolution | ||||
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| CVE-2013-0900 Race Conditions vulnerability | 6.8 | International Components for Unicode (ICU) |
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This notification describes vulnerabilities fixed in third-party components that are included in Oracle's product distributions.
Information about vulnerabilities affecting Oracle products can be found on Oracle Critical Patch Updates and Security Alerts page.
Oracle VM VirtualBox 4.3.8 has just been released. This maintenance release included bug fixes and improves stability.
For the full list of fixes see the ChangeLog, or just simply download it now at the community or Oracle download sites.
- The Oracle VM VirtualBox team
Oracle VM reflects Oracle's strategic commitment to deliver application-driven virtualization. This virtualization makes the entire enterprise software and hardware stack easier to deploy, manage, and support, making it possible for IT and businesses to be more agile.
You can take advantage of Oracle VM on x86 and SPARC platforms. And what better way to get started on this technology than by taking the corresponding training course.
You can take these instructor-led training courses from your own desk as a live-virtual event or by traveling to an education center for an in-class event. Below is a selection of events for these courses already on the schedule.
Oracle VM Administration: Oracle VM Server for x86
Location | Date | Delivery Language |
Melbourne, Australia | 7 May 2014 | English |
Perth, Australia | 19 May 2014 | English |
Sydney, Australia | 18 June 2014 | English |
Montreal, Canada | 27 May 2014 | English |
Ottawa, Canada | 27 May 2014 | English |
Toronto, Canada | 31 March 2014 | English |
Prague, Czech Republic | 24 March 2014 | Czech |
Prague, Czech Republic | 19 November 2014 | English |
London, England | 7 April 2014 | English |
Paris, France | 5 May 2014 | French |
Athens, Greece | 2 April 2014 | English |
Rome, Italy | 22 April 2014 | Italian |
Tokyo, Japan | 10 March 2014 | Japanese |
Riga, Latvia | 12 May 2014 | Latvian |
Mexico City, Mexico | 21 May 2014 | Spanish |
Oslo, Norway | 23 April 2014 | English |
Warsaw, Poland | 26 May 2014 | Polish |
Bucharest, Romania | 22 April 2014 | English |
Singapore | 15 April 2014 | English |
Ljubljana, Slovenia | 14 May 2014 | Slovenian |
Barcelona, Spain | 11 March 2014 | Spanish |
Istanbul, Turkey | 20 May 2014 | Turkish |
Roseville, MN, United States | 18 April 2014 | English |
Edison, NJ, United States | 27 May 2014 | English |
King of Prussia, PA, United States | 27 May 2014 | English |
Reston, VA, United States | 26 March 2014 | English |
Oracle VM Server for SPARC: Installation and Configuration
Location | Date | Delivery Language |
Canberra, Australia | 23 June 2014 | English |
Melbourne, Australia | 14 April 2014 | English |
Perth, Australia | 26 May 2014 | English |
Sydney, Australia | 10 March 2014 | English |
Prague, Czech Republic | 23 April 2014 | English |
Causeway Bay, Hong Kong | 26 May 2014 | English |
Madrid, Spain | 27 March 2014 | Spanish |
Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 2 April 2014 | English |
Atlanta, GA, United States | 8 April 2014 | English |
Caracas, Venezuela | 27 March 2014 | Spanish |
Harare, Zimbabwe | 2 April 2014 | English |
To register for an event or learn more about Oracle's Virtualization curriculum, go to http://education.oracle.com/virtualization.
The benefits of Big Data are truly extraordinary and a game changing technology that will impact decision makers everywhere. With Big Data, users have the ability to analyze and view extremely large pools of data to conduct advanced and predictive analytics that capture business trends, aid medical research and even improve crime prevention. While the promise of Big Data is alluring, most of us still have questions about what the right solution is and how it should be deployed, managed and maintained over the long haul.
If Big Data is on your IT roadmap, be sure to watch this 4 minute clip from Rob Reynolds, Senior Practice Director at Oracle Consulting Services, where he talks briefly about the importance of a good start and an architecture approach that is sustainable over time.
WebLogic has become the strategic application server infrastructure for Oracle Fusion Middleware and Applications.
It is designed to provide a standards-based, mission critical and secure platform for organizations developing and deploying large-scale, cloud environments.
Oracle iAS capabilities like Oracle TopLink and Oracle Coherence along with layered products such as Oracle Forms, Oracle Reports, Oracle Discoverer and Oracle Portal and others have been certified with the WebLogic Server infrastructure.
The J2EE runtime underlying Oracle Internet Application Server, Oracle Containers for J2EE (OC4J) has had key capabilities converged and certified with WebLogic Server. The goal has been to enable Oracle customer investments in Oracle Internet Application Server to move forward seamlessly.
Is your solution based on Oracle Forms? Consider running on WebLogic Server to take advantage of Brand New and Advanced Capabilities. Partner ISVs solutions can be upgraded to Oracle Weblogic and experience the full benefits of the latest Oracle Technologies.
Of course, you can still run custom applications on Oracle Application Server…but by switching to Oracle WebLogic Server, you can gain rich new functionality, get unparalleled performance and lower your support costs in the process.
For your enquiries feel free to contact us at partner.imc@beehiveonline.oracle.com
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by Jim Lein | Sr. Principal Product Marketing Director | Oracle Midsize Programs |@JimLein
Spoiler Alert—the answer to the
question posed in the title is, "Sometimes well meaning people make
really, really bad decisions."
The 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics Are History. For a year now, ever since the media started hyping this Olympic iteration, I've had a tough time not thinking about the Olympics that might have been but wasn't: The Denver '76 Winter Olympics.
In 1970, The Denver Olympic Organizing Committee (DOOC) successfully persuaded the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to award the 1976 Olympics to Colorado. Two years later, sensible Colorado voters rejected the bid and became the only entity to ever turn down the Olympics—Winter or Summer—after having been awarded them.
When it comes to software selection, we all know stories about bad decisions. In the case of Denver '76, the red flags were:
Product: the selected venues—in my adopted home town and ski area—lacked reliable snow
User Adoption: Colorado residents were concerned about the environmental impact and the impending flood of tourists
Cost: (budget estimates soared 300% within two years)
Sound familiar?
I’ve actually dug through two boxes of DOOC meeting notes, letters, and memorabilia in the archives of the Denver Public Library (I wanted to learn exactly where the events would have been held. I still don’t understand how the IOC awarded the Games to Denver. It was a disaster waiting to happen.
Mercifully, the '76 Games were moved to Innsbruck. Franz Klammer turned in perhaps the greatest Olympic downhill run of all time in front of 66,000 home town fans. Bill Koch became the first (and still only) American to win an Olympic cross country medal with his revolutionary skating style.
Growing companies intent on modernizing IT systems don’t have the option to pass the buck. And disaster is not an acceptable outcome.
As I research this series, it becomes clear that software selection disasters can be averted by following a thorough process. I believe that the RFP—as painful as the process is—is not going away. But perhaps the most important steps are those taken before the RFP is released-to help good people make good decisions. Soon I’ll be publishing what I’ve learned.
Meanwhile…here’s a great article, “9 Tips for Writing a Great RFP”, about RFPs in general, not specific to IT, that echoes much of what the experts are telling me.
The views expressed on this blog are mine and do not necessarily reflect the views of Oracle
The February 2014 edition of the Oracle Linux Newsletter is now available! This issue has some fantastic stories on OCFS2, Ksplice, using Oracle Database with Oracle Linux, new customer success stories, and much more!
You can read the latest edition online right now, or subscribe to have future issues delivered straight to your inbox!
-Chris
The February 2014 Oracle Virtualization Newsletter is now available! It includes content on an updated Oracle VM cost calculator (now including Oracle Linux!), 2014 IT Predictions, community demonstration videos, what's new in Oracle Secure Global Desktop, and much more!
Read the February edition online right now, or subscribe to get future issues delivered straight to your inbox.
-Chris
Sometimes you need to include directives in macros. The classic example would be putting OpenMP directives into macros. The "obvious" way of doing this is:
#define BARRIER \
#pragma omp barrier
void foo()
{
BARRIER
}
Which produces the following error:
"test.c", line 6: invalid source character: '#'"test.c", line 6: undefined symbol: pragma"test.c", line 6: syntax error before or at: omp
Fortunately C99 introduced the _Pragma mechanism to solve this problem. So the functioning code looks like:
#define BARRIER \
_Pragma("omp barrier")
void foo()
{
BARRIER
}
Which information management priorities are at the top of the corporate IT agenda? What are the most compelling developments in big data, analytics, mobile computing, data warehousing, and cloud computing that motivate IT leaders to undertake new technology initiatives?
Oracle surveyed hundreds of IT decision makers to learn about their big data and analytics plans for 2014—both within the Oracle customer base and the industry at large. Respondents provided specific feedback on mobile BI, cloud, Hadoop, data discovery, predictive analytics, and decision optimization technologies and practices. From this extensive data set we compiled the following trends:
Trend 1: Business Users Get Hooked on Mobile Analytics
Trend 2: Analytics Take to the Cloud
Trend 3: Hadoop-Based Data Reservoirs Unite with Data Warehouses
Trend 4: New Skills Bolster Big Data Investments
Trend 5: Big Data Discovery is the Secret to Workforce Success for HCM
Trend 6: Predictive Analytics Lend Fresh Insight into Big Data Strategies
Trend 7: Predictive Analytics Bring New Insight to Old Business Processes
Trend 8: Decision Optimization Technologies Enhance Human Intuition
Trend 9: Business Leaders Embrace Packaged Analytics
Trend 10: New Skills Launch New Horizons of Analysis
In nearly every industry, organizations are challenged to make sense of massive amounts of diverse, dynamic data coming from inside and outside of their control. Data influences many types of business decisions, motivating IT leaders to deploy intuitive analytics tools, to acquire pre-built analytics for LoB applications, and to utilize mobile and cloud models for economy and convenience.
Market leaders gain the upper hand through effective use of technology. They rely on modern software tools to integrate structured and unstructured data, to empower business users with self-service capabilities, to model large data sets, and to make bold predictions based on
patterns in the data.
Download the full report to not only learn about the trends, problems, and breakthroughs in big data and analytics in more detail but also for a bit of advice to get the most from your investments.
Which information management priorities are at the top
of the corporate IT agenda? What are the most compelling developments
in big data, analytics, mobile computing, data warehousing, and cloud
computing that motivate IT leaders to undertake new technology
initiatives?
Oracle surveyed hundreds of IT decision makers to learn about their big data and analytics plans for 2014—both within the Oracle customer base and the industry at large. Respondents provided specific feedback on mobile BI, cloud, Hadoop, data discovery, predictive analytics, and decision optimization technologies and practices. From this extensive data set we compiled the following trends:
Trend 1: Business Users Get Hooked on Mobile Analytics
Trend 2: Analytics Take to the Cloud
Trend 3: Hadoop-Based Data Reservoirs Unite with Data Warehouses
Trend 4: New Skills Bolster Big Data Investments
Trend 5: Big Data Discovery is the Secret to Workforce Success for HCM
Trend 6: Predictive Analytics Lend Fresh Insight into Big Data Strategies
Trend 7: Predictive Analytics Bring New Insight to Old Business Processes
Trend 8: Decision Optimization Technologies Enhance Human Intuition
Trend 9: Business Leaders Embrace Packaged Analytics
Trend 10: New Skills Launch New Horizons of Analysis
In nearly every industry, organizations are
challenged to make sense of massive amounts of diverse, dynamic data
coming from inside and outside of their control. Data influences many
types of business decisions, motivating IT leaders to deploy intuitive
analytics tools, to acquire pre-built analytics for LoB applications,
and to utilize mobile and cloud models for economy and convenience.
Market
leaders gain the upper hand through effective use of technology. They
rely on modern software tools to integrate structured and unstructured
data, to empower business users with self-service capabilities, to model
large data sets, and to make bold predictions based on
patterns in the data.
By Julian Orr, Oracle Applications User Experience
Photo by Brent White, Oracle Applications User Experience
Is there a certain device capability, such as the ability to capture mobile signatures or remotely wipe a device, that is so important to your mobile workflow that it has influenced your enterprise mobility strategy?
When it comes to making decisions about your organization’s enterprise mobility strategy, there are a few inescapable themes:
That businesses are committing resources to create and execute a mobile strategy is a given. The permutations of approaches to mobile strategies are endless, and the reasons behind them are varied and nuanced.
These approaches and their justifications are well understood from a generic enterprise perspective, but what are the common themes of an Oracle customer’s mobile strategy? How does it vary from that of the marketplace as a whole?
If one thing is clear, it is that Oracle customers want to do big things with mobility.
As such, Oracle has created a survey to capture and understand enterprise mobility from an incredibly important perspective, that of an Oracle customer.
We want to know what our customers are doing now, what you plan to do in the near future, and most importantly, what are the key influences to your strategy -- employee engagement, security, cost, or something we have yet to hear about.
Please take our enterprise mobility survey. The survey will remain open until March 28, and will take about 15 minutes to complete. The survey also includes a follow-up option to become more involved in Oracle applications research.
To learn more about the Applications User Experience team, please visit the UsableApps web site.
Say
we want to add (or start) managed server instances when running an
application, for example, when the number of open sessions reach a
certain value. For this value we have calculated that the memory
consumption is beyond a level, such that the garbage collection is
affected. By adding (or starting) a new server we balance the load (the
number of sessions with its corresponding memory consumption) across
multiple servers. By using the WebLogic Diagnostic Framework, we can
collect the metrics we need and create a watch for that metric with a
corresponding notification. By using this notification we can then
further create the logic needed in order to add (or start) a managed
server. For example, by using the notification service that come with
the WebLogic Diagnostic Framework we can send a JMS message or a JMX
notification. In this post we are going to use the JMS approach.
Environment The WebLogic environment consists of a cluster, spanning two
machines, and consisting of four managed servers. This can be easily
set-up by using the scripts presented in the post Automate WebLogic
12.1.2 Deployment. The diagnostic module is configured as follows - See
more at: Read the complete article here.
For regular information become a member in the WebLogic Partner Community please visit: http://www.oracle.com/partners/goto/wls-emea ( OPN account required). If you need support with your account please contact the Oracle Partner Business Center.
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