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TITLE
| | Oracle & Open Source
| | EDITION
| | 1st
| | ISBN
| | 0-596-00018-9
| | AUTHOR(S)
| | Andy Duncan, Sean Hull
| | PUBLISHER
| | O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
| | PUBLISHED
| | 2001
| | LEVEL(S)
| | 3 and 4 [about levels]
| | This book is no longer in print
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| SYNOPSIS |
A few short years ago, nobody could have imagined that the day would come when Oracle Corporation would not only tolerate the idea of open source software, but even incorporate it into its own product lines. And yet today the Oracle 8i database has been ported to the open source Linux operating system, the open source Apache JServe web server is a vital part of Oracle's Internet Application Server (iAS), and hundreds of exciting applications are now available, linking open source programs to Oracle databases and providing a new world of tools for Oracle database administrators and developers. Oracle & Open Source is the first book that ties together the commercial world of Oracle and the free-wheeling world of open source software. For DBAs, this book describes dozens of excellent open source tools (e.g., Orac, Karma, Orasoft, Oracletool, GNOME-DB, jDBA, and many more) that can be downloaded and used to help manage your Oracle databases. For developers who might be considering building their own open source applications for Oracle, it introduces the main open source technologies of special relevance to Oracle: Perl, Tcl, Python, Apache, the Linux-based GNOME/GTK+, and even some open source corners of Java. The book also describes the Oracle Call Interface (OCI), the "glue" software that allows you to connect your own applications to Oracle databases.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
| | Andy Duncan | Andy Duncan is the coauthor of Oracle & Open Source (O'Reilly, 2001), as well as Perl for Oracle DBAs (O'Reilly, 2002). The first book arose after Andy's creation, in 1998, of the Orac Perl/Tk tool for Oracle DBAs. Since then, he has worked mainly as an independent development and DBA consultant, and has counted both Oracle Corporation and Sun Microsystems among his long-term clients. In addition to performing Oracle, Perl, and Java consultancy work, Andy teaches as a senior instructor for Learning Tree International, covering both introductory and advanced Perl courses. He lives in Oxfordshire, England, and can be reached via andy_j_duncan@yahoo.com. | | Sean Hull | Sean Hull is an Oracle DBA and web developer plying his trade as an independent consultant with his own firm, iHeavy Inc., in New York City. He focuses on integrating open source technologies with commercial technologies such as Oracle, and has serviced as many successful Silicon Alley companies. His practice is growing steadily with an expanding network of associates offering a wide range of database, web, and Internet-related services. He is the author of Karma, a web-based open source Oracle monitoring tool, and a major contributor to the Orac DBA tool. He also contributes to the telelists Oracle email list and the dbi-users email list. On his days off you might find him practicing Capoeira, a Brazilian martial art. He resides in Manhattan, where he enjoys the fast pace, great restaurants, culture, and art. He can be reached at shull@iheavy.com. |
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