Oracle Applications

came to me in supplication, wishing that I would try my best to end the evil plague that spread across the fair city of Thebes. At that time, it was revealed by the Oracle of Delphi that the gods had sent the plague as punishment because we had not brought to justice…

of Socrates, the oracle at Delphi said that Socrates is the wisest. Socrates tried his hardest to fully understand what the oracle meant. He made it his mission to test the oracle’s statement. He went to people who have a reputation for wisdom and verified their knowledge through questioning. He discovered a great deal of ignorance and fabricated claims of knowledge. Nobody had a real genuine understanding, they just claimed they did. During his quest to find out what the oracle meant, Socrates…

Socrates told Lysis “your father isn’t waiting for you to come of age before he trusts you with everything; but come the day when he thinks that you know more than he does, he’ll trust you with himself and everything that belongs to him” (Lysis, 209c-d). He was stating that one is not useful based on age, but chiefly on knowledge, and this skill can lead to greater things. I agree with this quote because of a personal anecdote. When I was a Boy Scout, I was the youngest to earn the Eagle Scout…

Greek mythology, humans have little to no control over their fates. That knowledge and controls lies with the gods. Often times the characters of myths go to the oracles looking for a bit of guidance only to be delivered a cryptic message about a big event relevant to their lives. For example, Oedipus in Oedipus Tyrannus sends Creon to the oracle to get answers about the plague that racks Thebes, he is told that he must find the old king Laius’ murderer, Creon says “Then hear the words I heard…

Introduction Oracle was founded in 1977 as Software Development Laboratories by Lawrence (Larry) Ellison, Bob Miner, and Ed Oates. Oracle Version 1 was written, but was never officially released. In 1979, Oracle Version 2 was release as the first commercial SQL relational database management system (RDBMS). Also in 1979, Software Development Laboratories changed its name to Relational Software Inc. (RSI). The 1980s was a busy decade for Oracle. In 1982, RSI was renamed Oracle Systems and…

When creating an Oracle database one must consider what type of performance and needs you will need to keep your Real Application Cluster (RAC) environment operating at peak instances. When an Oracle database spans across multiple instances on different servers with shared data files. When the database spans across several hardware systems but it will appear as a single combined database within the application. Real Application Cluster allows the commodity to be utilized in way that they could…

administrative burden of approximately 280 technicians currently working in the United States. In reducing the administrative burden, there was not only a cost savings for reducing labor but also the added benefit of being able to have minable data in the Oracle database. With the project charter in hand, I sat down with the IT professionals to work through the details of how we would accomplish this task and still continue to manage the day to day business operations. The project charter was…

who had a similar product line which PeopleSoft used to release new applications in different types of corporate target markets. The company was eventually acquired by Oracle Corporation, another company specialized in enterprise software products, in 2005, though the packages originally developed by PeopleSoft have kept their “PeopleSoft name” and are marketed as such. Today, PeopleSoft represents one of the largest application packages that organizations can use for a variety of uses,…

manage the incoming date and output. Currently, this sector is dominated by Windows operating systems, and servers by UNIX operating systems or Linux. 3. Enterprise and other software applications: used to interconnect the organisation’s already existing application systems. This would consist SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle, etc. 4. Data management and storage: all the data acquired must also be stored and this is taken care by the organisation’s storage devices such as SANs, which connect multiple…

catching up to do to reach the size and market share of their larger competitors. As of 2007, SAP's CRM market share was 25.7 percent, compared to only 7 percent for Salesforce.com. IBM's customer base includes 9,000 software companies that run their applications on their software and that are likelier to choose a solution offered by IBM over Salesforce.com. Another challenge for Salesforce.com is to expand its business model into other areas. Salesforce is currently used mostly by sales staff…