Oracle & Open Source is the first book to tie together the commercial
world of Oracle and the free-wheeling world of open source software. As
this book reveals, these two worlds are not as far apart as they may
seem. Today, there are many excellent and freely available software
tools that Oracle developers and database administrators can use, at no
cost, to improve their own coding productivity and their system's
performance. Moreover, many of the finest Oracle developers are now
making their source code freely available so their peers can build upon
this code base. Oracle Corporation is even porting its RDBMS to Linux
and starting to incorporate a growing number of open source tools in the
company's own software.
Oracle & Open Source describes close to 100 open source tools you can
use for Oracle development and database administration, from large and
widely known open source systems (like Linux, Perl, Apache, TCL/Tk and
Python) to more Oracle-specific tools (like Orasoft, Orac, OracleTool,
and OraSnap). You'll learn how to obtain the software and how to adapt
it to best advantage. The book abounds with code examples, download and
installation instructions, and helpful usage hints.
Not only does it tell you how to find and use existing open source
code;Oracle & Open Source gives you the details and the motivation to
build your own open source contributions and release them to the Oracle
community. You'll learn all about tools like the Oracle Call Interface
(OCI) and Perl-DBI (Database Interface), which provide the glue allowing
new open source tools to link into commercial Oracle software.
With Oracle & Open Source as a guide, you'll discover an enormous
number of highly effective open source tools, while getting involved
with the thriving community of open source development.
