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For three years now, OSCON has provided a 90-minute session for open source projects to update OSCON attendees on "what's going on this year." If you're new to open source, it's a great way to get an idea of the scope of open source software out there. If you're an OSS geek, it's a chance to see what's new with your favorite projects.

Most importantly, with each presentation strictly

Application Management Pack for Siebel's eStudy is now available. The self pace online course is a tutorial for deploying, configuring and using our Siebel pack. The course assumes familiarity of base EM capabilities taught in the 5 days instructor led Enterprise Manager Grid Control training course, and complements other training that covers EM features such as Service Level Management and Configuration

To document the critical constraints, including the expected duration and budget, that limit the options for the project...

I am pleased to announce the IBM Information On Demand (IOD) 2008 global conference, October 26-31, 2008 at the majestic Mandalay Bay Hotel and Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. The global conference continues to bring our information management community fresh, innovative ideas to grow, to optimize your business and to win! Last year our customers and business partners networked,

We have recently added another disk array to one of our servers at work -- a 2.5TB logical disk. Unfortunately fdisk(8) can't manage disks greater than 2TB... but GNU Parted can.

As I am starting the process to wrap up another very interesting week at work with plenty of things happening to get things going

I've been consulting for over 40 years now, with contracts in at least a dozen countries, yet I'm still waiting for the first time I get a contract and find the book I need to receive when I arrive as a newcomer or consultant in a new organization or company. The book is entitled "Everything You Need To Know To Work Here" and it saves me a terrific amount of time and energy.

It is Friday, and where would all those happy Microsoft fan folks be without Linux Haters the blog?

Don't take the information stored in an Oracle control file for granted..make use of it.

Oracle's library cache is one such internal structure that, after learning about, can help eliminate some very nasty denial of service requests originating from application users.

My Pet Peeve of the Week is

This week my essay is entitled,

Spinner pushes some buttons.

We have a group called a PEAC (Permanent Education Advisory Committee), made up of a number of people working in the IT industry, which meets every so often to give us advice us on various things. We are all too aware of the danger of living in an "ivory tower" which is separated from the "real world", and we value their input and suggestions. These people are all in senior positions and many hire

I am not sure what James has gotten himself into lately, but he seems to be getting in it deeper with every post he makes here on ITToolbox! Pretty soon the only thing left to blog will be his hat....

Just came across WuChess, the "...worlds first online chess and Hip-Hop community." Nice. Create your own chess clans to see who can build the highest ranking. Play in tournaments for prizes, or just for the joy of flexin' ya mentals. Take the Tour with Rakaa from Dilated Peoples. If

I heard that core BPM guys don't do much of development. Is that true? What's the role of a developer in the BPM space?

No more lost information, missed SLAs, or incidents falling through the cracks. No more calling multiple numbers to find your customer. No more attempting to update a gargantuan spreadsheet without errors or promising yourself you will design the perfect database for all this information when you have the time.

As always, we're going to have a lot of PostgreSQL activity around OSCON. Here's my list of things to see and do ...

Now that this blog has turned itself into A KM Blog Thinking Outside the Inbox, I thought I would keep things going further by commenting on interesting links I have bumped into over the last few days and which basically touch on the subject of how e-mail