Duke's Corner

Did you know that Windows is the #1 development platform for MySQL? Product Manager Mike Frank explains why, and also tells us why MySQL 5.5 offers the best performance on Windows yet.

William Ulrich and Neal McWhorter, authors of Business Architecture: The Art and Practice of Business Transformation, cover the basics and discuss the role of business architecture in a changing market landscape.

SVP Linux Engineering Wim Coekaerts offers a deep-dive into the use cases for Oracle VM Templates as well as the Oracle Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel for Linux.

Oracle Berkeley DB allows developers to link a fully functional, robust data storage library directly into their application. Product manager David Segleau explains how.

Authors Archie Reed and Stephen G. Bennett discuss their book, "Silver Clouds and Dark Linings: A Concise Guide to Cloud Computing."

Learn how Oracle's collaboration with standard bodies enables customers and partners to build open and standards-based private clouds.

Tune in for an interactive preview of JavaOne San Francisco 2010, with guests Sharat Chander and Tori Wieldt.

Sun Ray developer Craig Bender takes us on a demo tour of the Sun Ray 3+ and explains the elegance and efficiency of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure.

Oracle's Alex Buckley explains why the JVM has been good not only for Java, but also for other languages -- and why JSR 292 will have a major impact on developers.

NetBeans engineering managers Jeff Jullion-Ceccarelli and Martin Ryzl offer a tour of NetBeans IDE 6.9, including a demo of the new JavaFX Composer.

Luke Kowalski, Oracle VP in the Corporate Architecture Group, and Jono Bacon, Ubuntu community manager and author of The Art of Community, offer their opinions on the meaning and value of "community" and why the MySQL one offers the penultimate example.

Joost Pronk, CTO for Oracle Solaris Product Management, provides an overview of the robust virtualization functionality built into the Oracle Solaris OS.

Oracle VP of R&D Craig Stephen and Sun Labs Director of Operations Roger Meike explain the innovation legacy of Sun Labs, its role at Oracle, and how the technology transfer process works.

Wim Coekaerts, Oracle SVP for Linux and Virtualization, explains how the addition of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, VirtualBox, and Sun Ray now complete a unique desktop-to-data center offering for customers.

Steve Wilson, VP Systems Management, leads a guided tour through Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center features for centralizing and automating the life cycle management of physical and virtual systems.