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Greg Rekounas, OAOT Oracle Solutions Architect and Oracle Lite Technology Leader, featured at Oracle OpenWorld 2007

GREENBELT, MD – November 13, 2007 – OAO Technology Solutions, Inc.(OAOT) announced that its Oracle Practice Area, part of the Strategic Business Solutions line of business, was featured at Oracle’s OpenWorld 2007 in San Francisco, CA. Greg Rekounas, an Oracle solutions architect and ACE director nominee, spoke on the topic of Globalizing a Mobile Application with Oracle Lite. Oracle OpenWorld is the world’s largest event dedicated to helping enterprises understand and harness the power of information.

Greg Rekounas

Mr. Rekounas’ presentation highlighted the successful application development and business process re-engineering for a mobile warranty management system for the world’s largest automobile manufacturer. OAOT consolidated and modernized over 100 disparate systems, provided 24/7 accessibility in both mobile web and offline modes, ensured scalability for up to 30,000 users and supported 26 different languages. The system deployment resulted in significant cost reductions for the customer, to include the initial development, deployment, operations, and maintenance and support costs.

“As a result of this project, OAOT created one of the largest implementations of Oracle Lite by designing and developing an enterprise-wide application to run on the customer’s existing end-user computing and infrastructure platform. Not only was this Oracle Lite’s largest implementation, it was also the automobile manufacturer’s largest and most visible IT project in its history,” stated Mr. Rekounas.

“OAOT solutions architects are recognized by Oracle product and support teams as industry leaders for their technical expertise,” said Duke Dickson, president, Strategic Business Solutions, and executive vice president, Business Development and Marketing for OAOT. “From database engineering to competitive marketplace analysis, OAOT is actually helping to shape Oracle Lite into what it is today.”

OAOT’s Oracle solutions expertise creates greater agility across enterprise applications to completely transform our customers’ business operations. Our proficiency in transition planning and portfolio management enables us to address the most complex business challenges and unique enterprise requirements through the integration of people, process and technology. For more information, visit www.oaot.com.

About OAO Technology Solutions, Inc.
OAOT (www.oaot.com) is a global leader in Managed IT Services and Solutions to Fortune 500 corporations, global outsourcers, and government agencies. The Company’s capabilities include: strategic business solutions, enterprise IT operations, and human capital management. Headquartered in Greenbelt, Maryland, the Company’s 2,000 employees work in over 200 locations throughout the world.

Speaking at Oracle OpenWorld today

I am in San Francisco having an awesome time so far! I present today at 3:15, which I have posted about before. Not really nervous, just excited. I will probably be posting my presentation here after I present it.

Oracle OpenWorld

Michelle and I went sight seeing yesterday and we picked up tickets to go to Alcatraz island on Wednesday. We got onto the trolleys, saw the Golden Gate bridge from a distance, ate at a fancy smancy restaurant, and shopped at Bloomingdale’s. Planning on going to China town this morning and then we are open for anything after 5:00 today. Within the next few days, we will be going to the Redwood forest and also a animal park that folks around here have been mentioning. Wednesday night, Oracle is presenting Lenny Kravitz, Billy Joel, and Stevie Nicks. I am probably forgetting stuff, but I will be updating when I get back.

Oracle Open World 2007

I have been invited to speak at Oracle Open World this year about Oracle Lite. My presentation information and schedule are as follows:

Session Title: Globalizing a Mobile Application with Oracle Database Lite (Featuring J2EE Technology)
Track: INDUSTRIES; TECHNOLOGY; ORACLE DEVELOP; Automotive; Database; Java and Java Enterprise Edition; Database Application Development
Room: Continental Parlor 9
Date: 2007-11-12
Start Time: 15:15

I will be finalizing my presentation in the next few weeks and uploading the presentation.

Setting up Oracle Application Server 10g on Solaris 10

I got a call from my system administror today from work asking me if I could install a bunch of Oracle software. I am thinking, sure I can do that, just give me telnet and xterm access and I am off to the races. Well, what started out seeming like it should only take me about 1-2 hours, took me 10 hours! First problem I had, I tried to install Oracle Application Server 10g (9.0.4) on a Solaris 10 platform. This version of application server came out in 2003 and therefore Solaris 10 did not exist. Now I am thinking “I am screwed!” Because I have to install Oracle Mobile Server 10g (10.2.0.1) on top of Oracle Application Server and Mobile Server is only certified to work with the 9.0.4 version and not the newer 10.2.0.1 version. I like how Oracle releases products with the same release numbers but does not certify them to work together. It’s like Microsoft releasing Office XP and then telling you that Office XP does not work on Windows XP.

Anyhow, I downloaded a couple of patches on things seem to start rolling again.

The I started to install Oracle Mobile Server. The first thing the installation told me was that it needed JDK 1.4.1. I look around the Solaris box and I find version 1.5.1. Screw it! I point the JAVA13_HOME variable to Solaris’ JDK. When the install starts up, I notice that the first thing that Oracle installs is JDK 1.4.2! WTF! Why would you ask me to install something you are already going to install?

What a bitch! The worst thing about the whole experience was the xterm emulation. Holy crap was it ever slowwwwwww! I would click ‘Next’, go upstairs and straighten up the kitchen, then comeback and if I was lucky, the page would have moved.

Oh well. In the morning I start the process all over again.

What is Webtogo?

Webtogo is a Java Servlet Runner. Kind of an embedded java application server without some of the J2EE features such as JMS, EJB, etc. Web-to-go is part of Mobile Server. Essentially, it looks like the administration (Mobile Manager) screen to Oracle Lite. A user logs into webtogo and all their applications are listed. If you have a simple applications with just JSPs for example, you could easily deploy the WAR file to webtogo, compile the JSPs and a user would have the application on their desktop. All the code/files are stored within the ODB filesystem so it makes it extremely difficult for someone to mess around with the code. The other neat thing about it, is that it only takes up about 16 MB or RAM. Actually starts faster than IIS or Apache. I guess it’s Oracle Lite’s solution to rapid development :P