Perl, the duct tape of the Internet, is well suited for use in CGI applications. Thanks to the Perl DBI module, available on CPAN, database interaction with Perl is quite simple. Prerequisites To ...

When a microprocessor vulnerability rocked the tech industry last year, companies scrambled to patch nearly every server they had. In Oracle’s case, that meant patching the operating system on about 1 ...

When Wim Coekaerts is solving problems and building things, he’s happy. When he’s not, he’s not. In his long career, he’s found joy working on early database appliances, and later guiding Oracle’s ...

Red Hat Inc. claims that Oracle Corp.’s bid to clone Red Hat’s market-leading version of the Linux operating system will result in broken software, nonworking hardware and security holes for ...

Red Hat has forbidden users of its flagship version of Linux from sharing the code. This was done to squash competitors and has caused an uproar. Oracle has publicly chastised Red Hat's owner, IBM, ...

NEW YORK--Oracle will finish switching its 9,000-person in-house programming staff to Linux by the end of 2004, the database powerhouse said Wednesday. In October, the company finished the Linux ...

In the first part of this series, I explained how to install the necessary Perl modules to get us up and running. As a part of that process, the Oracle client software should have been installed as ...