Oracle Magazine November - December 2005 Features Departments Technology, Developer & Comment Sections—    Articles and Columns

FEATURES

2005 Editors' Choice Awards By David A. Kelly The editors of Oracle Magazine are proud to announce the recipients of our fourth annual Editors' Choice Awards.

DEPARTMENTS

From Our Readers Readers tell us what they think. Big Crowds, Big News By Jeff Spicer Fusion Architecture tops list of announcements at Oracle conference. AT ORACLE Events Find out about current and upcoming industry events. OTN Community Bulletin Learn what's happening with Oracle's most dynamic online community. Oracle News Oracle Retail enables retailers to improve all aspects of their business. Oracle News Briefs CHANNELS Peer-to-Peer Pavel Descoteaux, Arno van der Kolk, Ilya Petrenko Partner News Dell, EMC, Microsoft, Wipro Technologies, 170 MarkView, DLT Solutions, Accenture, NEOS, Farallon Geographics, Laser-Scan, plus Book Beat Cutting Edge Laptop screens get brighter, smaller hard drives store more, and coding like you speak.

TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPER SECTION—ARTICLES & COLUMNS

TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY STANDARD Standardizing Grid Computing By Rich Schwerin The Enterprise Grid Alliance defines emerging standards for grid computing. BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE Building Analytic Workspaces By Dan Vlamis Use Oracle AWM 10g to build analytic workspaces. ASK TOM On Transaction Isolation Levels By Tom Kyte Our technologist isolates transactions safely. INSIDE OCP Tuning Oracle9i on Linux By Aradhana Puri Questions and answers about managing Oracle9i on Linux

ORACLE DEVELOPER FRAMEWORKS Working with Master/Detail Data By Steve Muench Navigating, joining, and presenting related data in an easier way. ODP.NET Serving Winning LOBs By Mark A. Williams New features in ODP.NET make it easier than ever to handle LOBs. BROWSER-BASED Migrating to Oracle HTML DB By Scott Spendolini Centralize and secure your one-off applications. WINDOWS Tools for Your .NET Space By Christian Shay Use ODT for fast, easy development for Oracle Database on Windows.

COMMENT ANALYST'S CORNER Blending Process and Productivity By David Baum Burton Group's Mike Gotta discusses organizational productivity in the new workplace. INFORMATION MATTERS Stronger Measures By George Demarest More interesting questions instead of too many unexceptional facts