Oracle BPM (ALBPM) Resources

This is a quick post to put all publicly available Oracle BPM resources all together to avoid wasting time doing pointless searches.

Technical Forums:
Oracle Business Process Management Suite

Forum in Simplified Chinese:
http://cn.forums.oracle.com/forums/forum.jspa?forumID=315

Downloads:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/bpm/index.html

or go to http://edelivery.oracle.com/

Documentations:

Oracle BPM Configuration Matrix

10gR3
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13154_01/bpm/docs65/index.html

Docs for previous version are no longer available on edocs.bea.com for some reason. Well, we can still access them via the links below. But I have no idea how long they are going to last.

6.0
http://edocs.bea.com/albsi/docs60/index.html

5.7
http://edocs.bea.com/albsi/docs57/index.html

5.5
http://edocs.bea.com/albsi/docs55/index.html

Patches:

Where to download Oracle BPM patches now?

Linux omitted by banks

Yesterday I played around the newly enhanced Netbank of Commonwealth Bank (CBA). Generally speaking, the new UI is good. Although it is not working very well when zoomed in. Also, the new web edition for iPhone is fully functioning now. It's good to see banks are doing someting in this economic downturn.

Something weird I found when clicking on Run Optimization Check link.


I found this matrix from the link: FAQ

The system requirements to use NetBank are:

Browser	Operating System
	Windows 2000	Windows XP	MAC OSX	Vista
Internet Explorer 6 SP2
Internet Explorer 7
Mozilla Firefox 2
Mozilla Firefox 3
Safari 2
Safari 3

I understand that GNU/Linux is not a mainstream OS for ordinary users, market share is close to 1%. As a *NIX fan, I still feel uncomfortable to see Linux being ignored. The fact is that Mozilla Firefox itself is cross platform. As a result, all OS Firefox supports should be supported, right?

In fact, I use Linux + Firefox or Opera (swith to Chrome for Linux later this year) to access Netbank and other web based internet banking services most of the time, 90%+. It is actually a supported platform. The Netbank team should be able to do the compatibility test, resource should not a problem. If not, I would be more than happy to be a tester as if CBA offers me a VIP account or something like that:)

BTW: Of course I am still with some stupid banks who are still with IE + ActiveX combination and Windows only client. It sucks. My workaround is to run a guest Windows instance.

CBA is not the the only bank that omits GNU/Linux. Here I am not criticising CBA. I wish in the future the banks can take Linux into their account when doing compatibility test.

We all know that Linux is quite something, it is going to make a big noise in the OS market soon. Please do not omit it.

Ubuntu at Sydney Airport

It has been a while since my last post here. 2009 is a busy year for me, it is a shame on me to find more than 20 drafts to be posted:).

I travelled to Shanghai again on March 4, from Sydney. I found the same Free Internet Access machines sponsored by Oputs at Kingsford Smith airport. In fact I discovered this interesting thing last October when I went back to Shanghai to see my family. However, at that time I was in a hurry and I didn't have time play with it.

Operating System: Ubuntu Drapper Drake 6.06 LTS.
Desktop Environment: Gnome
Web Browser: Opera 9

How do I know that?
They did some tricks to limit user controls within a full-screened Opera Web Browser, key combination to switch to other pseudo consoles disabled. For some reason, they forgot to disable the key combination to restart X11 (U know what I am talking about, right?). I can't believe it! Hope they won't see this post:).

BTW:
Dapper Drake was my first Ubuntu version. At that time I was using Fedora Core 5. I have been using Fedora Core (now renamed to Fedora) for the past few years since it's initial release. Later on I decided to move to Debian/Ubuntu because of the APT package management. RPM really sucks.

I am more than happy to see GNU/Linux and open source apps to be used for non-profit or public services. It makes sense to make non-IT people aware that there are choices other than Microsoft Windows, and it's free of charge!

Bon voyage, Ubuntu! Well done, Debian GNU/Linux and the open source community.