[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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