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| | Editor's Note | | A Technologist’s Career Journey
Why did Linux guru Wim Coekaerts leave Oracle after 19 years to join Microsoft and then come back to Oracle after just a short stint away? Coekaerts figured out that he’s happiest when he’s working “on something that we can build and ship or something that we build and use,” he says. And he decided that Oracle was the best place for him to do that. And because “Linux has become the operating system of the cloud,” Coekaerts says, he expects a lot more hands-on work and fun ahead.
Many technologists go through the kind of career exploration Coekaerts has, figuring out what makes them happy and where the best home is to do that work. Hear more about Coekaerts’ journey and what he sees ahead for Linux and the cloud, in this profile. — Chris Murphy, Oracle director of cloud content |
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| | More Cloud News | | How Good Data Drives Growth: Execs from Ring, Journelle
To really understand the value of accurate data in growth companies, read how it helps Journelle CEO Lyn Lewis grow her luxury lingerie business—such as letting her link in-store payroll hours to in-store sales on a given day. How cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP) technology helps each pursue a unique strategy. | Four Key Tech Strategies from Award-Winning CIOs
Tip #1: Today’s CIOs must spot the opportunities that change a company’s strategy. “Be the one that’s pushing not only the technology but also the corresponding business models enabled by it,” says Oracle CIO Mark Sunday. Hear from three other CIOs the other three strategies. | ERP Reports: Are Your ‘Simple’ Reports Really ‘Incomplete?’
Many cloud ERP vendors provide one-size-fits-all reports, which they call “simple.” In reality, they’re “incomplete.” People have different requirements—operational, financial, and management analytics. Can your cloud vendor ensure that everyone is getting the analytics they need in order to make better decisions faster? How to rock your reporting. | Caching with Oracle Application Container Cloud
Oracle Application Container Cloud is Oracle’s polyglot lightweight application development/deployment environment—build your single-process service with Java SE, Node, PHP, or something similar, and within Application Container Cloud, you’ll get a horizontal-scale-out docker-based infrastructure for that service. Now it has a key new feature: sharing state or cache data across multiple application instances. Here’s why that’s important to developers. |
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