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Rank of tech billionaires dwindled in 2000
News After watching their stocks soar to astounding heights in 1999, the technology CEOs with the highest net worth looked on helplessly in 2000 as their fortunes dwindled, in some cases to mere millions.
Add flexibility to your code
Insight Separating localized resources from the source code where they are used is a well-known and approved design. However, there is a tight coupling between a resource bundle and a localized object, which you may not want to hard-code into your application.
Nightmare for Dell: Acer closes in on No. 2 in PCs
News Dell feels Acer on its back as the Taiwan-based PC-maker saw its global market share grow by more than a third in the last quarter.
Tags: PC security, Smart phones, Hewlett-Packard Co., Acer Inc., PC Company, CFO, Google Inc., Cell Phone, Google Android, analyst
Oracle's second quarter to be a mixed bag
News Analysts expect the company, which reports its Q2 results this week, to announce a mixed bag including healthy maintenance subscriptions, potential earnings miss and some belt tightening on deck.
Tags: Financial statements, Analyst reports, ORCL, Sales, Reback, Brendan Barnicle, business intelligence, U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray Inc., Oracle Corp., license revenue
Kill runaway Oracle processes on Windows with OraKill
Techguide Use Oracle's orakill.exe to kill the Oracle thread, instead of Windows Task Manager which would bring down all users and background threads and crash the database.
Tags: Software, Business applications, Databases
Power play: Why Ray Lane left Oracle
News For years, they were the odd couple of Silicon Valley.
Learn about SQL*Plus 10g's new features
Techguide There are new features in the Oracle SQL*Plus product, one of which is the DBMS_OUTPUT enhancement that debugs functions used in SELECT statements.
Learn about SQL*Plus 10g's new features
Techguide The Oracle SQL*Plus product has introduced some new features that have long been missing from this utility program, and some to support the new features.
Here's a rundown of the new features in Oracle SQL*Plus.
