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Monday morning, 8:15 AM
Bad fly-day yesterday. Big storm, lightening outside the
plane windows, lots of turbulance--I don't like it when I look
outside the plane window and see the wings flapping.
Remember I mentioned that I decided to useGoToMyPC on this trip to
avoid having to move my email onto my notebook computer?Well,
now I have some results to report.
First of all, I found that I really missed being able to
catch up on email during the long flight from Detroit to San
Francisco. To use GoToMyPC, you need an Internet connection to
your host computer, and, of course, I didn't have one on the
plane.
Using GoToMyPC is not nearly the same as being there.
You're remotely controlling a PC via the Internet, and even on
a fast connection everything you do is just a bit sluggish.
I've also had reliability problems: connections have suddenly
dropped and this morning my connection froze while I was in
the middle of editing an important email.
On the plus side, I like the way GoToMyPC is able to the
screen image on my desktop (which runs at 1100-something in
the horizontal dimenson) down to the 800x600 used by my
notebook. The results are surprisingly readable
Nothing at OracleWorld really begins until 9:00am. I'll
update this page throughout the day, as time permits.
Update, Monday @ 2:21 PM
While wandering the show floor today I stumbled across a
product named Exodus
from Ciphersoft
Inc. Exodus automatically converts PL/SQL applications,
notably Oracle Forms applications into Java. An Oracle Forms
app ends up as an EJB-based application. Ciphersoft is an
Oracle Migration Partner, so Oracle is, apparently, actively
supporting a product that migrates users away from their own
Oracle Forms environment. Interesting.
By far the most interesting thing I encountered today was a
booth in the Oracle campgrounds at which Brajesh Goyal was
giving a demo of Oracle's toolkit for Globus. Globus is a platform for
grid computing developed jointly by Argonne National Labs,
University of Southern California, and other instituions.
Oracle databases can be resources on a Globus grid, and
scripts and jobs can be submitted to run against those
databases. That Oracle supports grid computing fascinates me.
Expect to read more from me on this topic.
And what of my problems this morning with GoToMyPC? Those
turned out to be the fault of my ISP, which experienced a
short outage.
Jonathan
Gennick is an O'Reilly & Associates editor
specializing in database and programming titles.
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