Newbie - Advice

Hello All,
I am a software engineer working in C/C++ and Java. Obvious next step is to move to Application infrastructure like Middleware and SOA platforms. How is market for Oracle SOA suite 11G. I know 10G had some specific issues regarding performance and maturity.

Igwe,
10g is the current production release. 11g is in Technical Preview, with no official release date (although the rumours are swirling).
11g vs 10g - each has it's own set of certifications for supported application servers. They are, in fact, different. They each also have their own set of certified browsers. So, you cannot assume that 11g apps will run anywhere 10g apps will.
As it concerns the Apps - define what you mean by "work with." At a basic level, either version should work with apps 11i and 12.
John

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Hi,
I check the Fedora 8 DVD and the packages related to elfutils* are:
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/Packages/elfutils-libelf-0.130-3.fc8.i386.rpm
/Packages/elfutils-libelf-devel-0.130-3.fc8.i386.rpm
/Packages/elfutils-libs-0.130-3.fc8.i386.rpm
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#rpm -Uvh elfutils*
Regards
zhichen

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Daybyday wrote:
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Solved!
Go to Solution.

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Hi,
I Have Flash CS3 and am constructing an SWF for a presentation that will be shown on a TV
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Thanks for the advice
Unfortunately I dont have After Effects and the ticker will be changing every few days so the XML will be a definite need rather than static.
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jon

hi nancy, dweb3d.
this is really great help and i very much appreciate it.
can i please ask you some follow ups here as i try and get this together?
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Advice for newbie

Hi
This is my first post and hope that somebody has the patience to give some advice to a newcomer.
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Thanks very much Paul. I've have completed further investigation, I think I will try and get the form submited as html so that just the entered intructions are received, and as far as a "database" goes, what I really should have said was a record, we don't need a database of the jobs just a record - a simple table of information entered in the form. Thanks for your suggestion about Access though, Access would handle and perform what we want a little better - would be great to have a job queue where we can mark jobs complete and enter meter readings etc....Access would be better at this than excel......I'm a novice Access user too, looks like I have some more research to do.

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