Oracle Symfony in PHP Minor

Mladen Gogala is an Oracle DBA with PHP expertise.
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http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/gogala-symfony.html

PHP OCI8 1.3.3 Has Gone Production

PHP's OCI8 1.3.3 brings support for Oracle's Database Resident Connection Pool (DRCP), Fast Application Notification (in RAC environment), Client Result Cache technologies giving PHP enterprise class scalability, performance, and high availability.

See the README in the OCI8 bundle and read the white paper http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/php/pdf/php-scalability-ha-twp.pdf for more information.

New release of database-resident Lucene integration

I am glad to report that Marcelo as releasd a new releae of its database-resident Lucene using the embedded Java VM in the Oracle database.
http://marceloochoa.blogspot.com/2008/06/new-binary-release-of-lucene-oracle.html

This is a perfect illustration of data-intensive-and-compute-intensive processing that i will be talking about in comign events.