[DB-SIG] introduction for Oracle-based newbies; evangelism

Andy Todd andy47 at halfcooked.com
Sat Aug 13 01:13:11 CEST 2005


Catherine Devlin wrote:
> Hi, SIG!  ("Hi, Catherine!")
> 
> I'm basically an Oracle DBA who uses Python on the side, and I'm tired
> of seeing blank stares at Oracle meetings when I mention my Python
> passion.  So I wrote up an article designed to smooth the entry to
> Python for Oracle people, addressing the things I think are likely to
> confuse an Oracle-based newbie.  Or the things that confused me, at
> least.
> 
> The article is at http://www.ioug.org/python.pdf
> 
> If only I could have read it on my way into Python, it would have made
> things quite a bit easier for me, time-travel paradoxes
> notwithstanding.
> 
> Anyway, I had hoped to publish it in the IOUG's quarterly magazine,
> but they opted simply to web-publish it at their site.  I'm afraid,
> for evangelism purposes, it's pretty obscure right now.  Pushing the
> evangelism metaphor a little further, my lamp is not at all on a
> lampstand.
> 
> I'm bringing it up here for two reasons.
> 
> 1) If you personally want to help Oracle people to a friendly
> introduction, please gratify my ego and point them to it.
> 2) Ideas on where to go with it next.  IOUG told me I still have
> rights to try to publish or post it elsewhere, but I don't really know
> where.  Thoughts?
> 
> Thanks!
> - Catherine
> http://catherinedevlin.blogspot.com/
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In my opinion your best bet is to turn it into HTML and post it up on 
the web somewhere. Then with the combined google-juice of the people 
reading this mailing list it would soon make the front page of most 
search results for Oracle+Python.

I'm not sure that Oracle would be that interested in promoting this or 
any similar article as Python isn't a strategic direction for them. 
Their open source efforts are more focussed towards Linux and PHP at the 
moment, but you never know where a little perseverance will get you. The 
home of this kind of content in the Oracle world is OTN [1] so maybe you 
could try this same question in their forums.

[1] http://www.oracle.com/technology/index.html

Regards,
Andy
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