Oracle Chooses Flex (part 1)
Monday, 12 November 2007
Today I’m at Oracle OpenWorld watching a number of keynotes and sessions and I’m seeing Flex EVERYWHERE! First up was the Monday Keynote with Charles Phillips where Oracle demonstrated a new Flex based MetaLink. Back when I was a DBA/SysAdmin/Programmer I had to use MetaLink to get support from Oracle. Working with the interface was like a trip to dentist. Not fun. Well, today Oracle demonstrated the new version of MetaLink built with Flex. It looks great and using it is like a trip to the day spa. Great job Oracle! Here’s a photo of the new interface courtesy of Todd Ruhl:
There are many more Oracle applications being demonstrated over the next few days that were built with Flex. Stay tuned for more photos and announcements. This is only the tip of the iceberg!
No. 1 — November 13th, 2007 at 12:15 am
> it is like a trip to the day spa
Haha and I know you love spa :)
BTW! Good to see that more and more companies are realizing the usefulness of Adobe Flex/Flash platform.
-abdul
No. 2 — November 13th, 2007 at 9:47 am
I work with Oracle since 1994 as DBA and Developer and since last year we moved from Java Swing to Flex (using Oracle XML DB as the backend). It is hard to NOT use Flex, presentation is very important and Flex is really easy to use and code. We are very happy that Oracle saw this too, we can only gain by this.
No. 3 — November 14th, 2007 at 3:19 pm
[...] the Metalink has been rebuilt (here)… now there is a Flex UI for the support knowledge [...]
No. 4 — November 15th, 2007 at 3:12 pm
[...] a couple of postings on his weblog describing applications (including some pictures) using flex: Metalink, Bi Publisher, Enterprise Manager, Siebel CRM, Sales Prospector and Sales library. The pictures are [...]
No. 5 — November 15th, 2007 at 11:52 pm
[...] running on Flex at OpenWorld this week (including these announcements blogged by James Ward: support system Meta Link, Enterprise Manager database tool, Siebel CRM and more). It has made for interesting viewing, and [...]
No. 6 — November 16th, 2007 at 4:18 am
Don’t forget Oracle Application Express (APEX), it uses Flash for diagrams :-)
No. 7 — November 16th, 2007 at 3:59 pm
That’s a great news. Thanks James.
ciao
marco
No. 8 — November 20th, 2007 at 4:51 pm
[...] talk about James Ward’s Flex sightings at Oracle OpenWorld (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7), which moves into Flex in enterprise [...]
No. 9 — November 25th, 2007 at 9:49 am
[...] Read more Here [...]
No. 10 — December 17th, 2007 at 12:16 pm
Congrats James, this is great news. Flash/Flex makes lot of sense for many of these enterprise applications.
No. 11 — January 4th, 2008 at 3:57 am
i have been used jave since last year, but when i see how great flex is from my friend i just want to turn from java to flex:))))))))))000
No. 12 — January 14th, 2008 at 10:11 am
[...] Nous apprenons dans cet articleque BEA propose sur son site un bundle spécial comprenant son IDE Workshop et l’IDE Flex Builder d’Adobe. Aucune information en revanche le support apporter par BEA sur l’IDE ou sur la technologie Flex. Flex semble être adopté par certains éditeurs du monde Java/J2EE, Oracle en Novembre dernier lors de son “Oracle OpenWorld” avait déjà présenté plusieurs utilisations maison de Flex. [...]
No. 13 — April 1st, 2008 at 7:15 pm
BTW! Good to see that more and more companies are realizing the usefulness of Adobe Flex/Flash platform.