The Oracle Lite Blog

If you have picked up your November/December 2008 issue of Oracle Magazine, turn to page 28 and there is a brief interview with me. Here is the interview if you don’t have the magazine:

Which new features in Oracle technologies are you currently finding most valuable? Oracle Database Lite’s automatic sync allows high reliability in mobile applications, while at the same time keeping users working instead of interrupting their current applications to retrieve new applications. Prior releases relied on manual synchronization, and for an organization this caused issues because users’ data could be stale if they waited too long between syncs. Now, an organization can set thresholds around data modified, network connectivity, and even low battery power to sync information.

Name one unique use of Oracle products at your company. We’ve created one of the largest implementations of Oracle Database Lite. We’re synchronizing more than 350 tables, 700 indexes, 60 sequences, and a full-blown OC4J application to field users’ laptop.

What would you like to see Oracle, as a company, do more of? Oracle has many great technologies. What I find most customers have a hard time with is visualizing the integration of those technologies into their businesses. More in-depth case studies of solutions requiring multiple products would help.

Here is a link to the article.