I just discovered this summary of a speech about Oracle’s participation in open source (and open standards) given by Omar Tazi. Apparently, Tazi is Oracle’s Chief Open Source Evangelist. (Who knew?) Tazi himself affirms that the summary is reasonably accurate in his comment on it. (It doesn’t look like he’s aware of our work with […]
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Why I'm Not Worried about the Microsoft Patent Threats Against Linux
Understandably, there’s been a lot of hand wringing about this. But the experts and evidence all suggest that Microsoft is all bark and no bite in this particular case.
Oracle AEI at the Sakai Atlanta Conference
Here, thanks to the magic of SlideShare, are the slides from one of the Academic Enterprise Initiative (AEI) presentations at the Atlanta conference: A few comments on the presentation are in order:
A New Job, Part II
In my last post, I announced that I will be taking a new job at Oracle and explained that the move will not affect my blogging. Now I’d like to take a moment to talk about why I’m so excited about this new opportunity to make a difference in the world of online learning.
A New Job, Part I
And now for some Big News. I am delighted to announce that, effective December 1st, I will begin my new job at Oracle as a Product Manager for their Academic Enterprise Initiative (AEI). (I have previously blogged about AEI in a two–part series.) I want to tell you why I am so excited about this […]
Building Bridges To Nowhere
Speaking of both standards compliance and Blackboard, IMS CEO Rob Abel has posted an interesting comment on the Wired Campus’ blurb regarding a Blackboard/SAP integration deal: It is important for the readers to understand that there are currently administrative system providers such as Oracle working within the nonprofit IMS Global Learning Consortium to create open […]
Oracle, Sakai, and the LMOS–Part 2
A few posts back, I described Oracle and Unicon’s Academic Enterprise Initiative and how it fits well with the vision of the Learning Management Operating System (LMOS). I also noted that it adds the concept of a “student data hub” (sometimes also called an “education data hub” in the document). I’m going to explore that […]