Earlier in the day, I dropped a comment on Jeff Nolan’s site about on-demand/open source and SAP/Oracle. In my comments, I said:
Get the customers engaged in discussions that help them to learn and provide feedback to [in this case but applies to all vendors] SAP.
Something I don’t see ORCL doing in any of its ‘development.’
Later, I posted about using multiple monitors and in comments, Vinnie Mirchandandi steered me to Matrox. (thanks Vinnie) But when I did this Google search, I ended up finding ORAblogs a really cool Oracle bloggers aggregation site. In and among, I found this reference to a Google Sitemaps plug-in for WordPress, the engine on which this blog sits. Thanks Eddie for a great site where there is much to read and discover. Together with a bunch of really useful links including an install video tutorial by Andre Chaperon.
Who says Oracle is altogether evil? (I’m known to, as I’m sure Jeff would/has). So now I’m conflicted. On the one hand I’m really impressed with some of the things I’m finding out about Oracle. If anyone wants the skinny on Oracle, there’s a ready made, deep resource by following Eddie’s links – including a useful (but closed subscription) Frappr map of 44 Oracle bloggers.
While at Eddie’s place, look for the pages that take you to Oracle Firefox extensions. Imagine this kind of functionality for any application vendor? No more manuals. Mass change in the notion of user support forums. (No more, I’m tired of giving away all my ideas.) So hats off to Oracle for sparking some ideas around innovation.
Note: The Google Sitemaps is a must if you want to keep your WP site adequately indexed at Google. And as we all know, Google rank is far more important than any other ranking mechanism at this point in time.
On the other, I feel a complete idiot for assuming that because a vendor’s blog efforts are below my radar, they don’t exist. Just not true. And that the really big boys aren’t terribly innovative. Equally untrue. Today.
Bonus Link: Search your Oracle e-Business Suite data using Google
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