Oracle Apex Notebook

NEOPI - Free tool to prepare Linux for Oracle installation

Written by Paulo Vale on Wednesday, June 11, 2008

NEOPI stands for Neoface Oracle Pre-Installer.


This is a free tool which installs the missing but required Linux packages for an Oracle Software installation. Beyond that, also configures the kernel and security parameters and creates the Oracle account and all due privileges. Configuration files can be customized to the DBA needs.

My colleague at Neoface João Oliveira, blogged about NEOPI some days ago. Please follow the link to his blog. There, you can find all the details and the download link.

If you try this tool, we would be very happy to get some feedback.

New blog

Written by Paulo Vale on Saturday, April 05, 2008

I would like to point you to a new APEX related blog. João Oliveira is my personal friend, works with me at Neoface and he is an experienced Oracle DBA.

APEX is not an exclusive subject, but you will find on beyondoracle blog many interesting topics regarding this technology, specialy in terms of server configurations, security and tunning.

He started his blog last February, so please give him a visit and a warm welcome.

A real live APEX application

Written by Paulo Vale on Tuesday, March 18, 2008

I'm happy to announce that neoface (my company) has finally launched it's first public APEX based software. During the past two or three years we've developed many APEX built applications to specific and private projects.

Yesterday and supported by a national (Portugal) radio and magazine campaign we started a new adventure. We have our first APEX appllication open to subscriptions targeting Portuguese market.

We did changed a lot in the past few months. We started by redesigning our corporate image. This is neoface's a new logo:

We also have a newly registered brand name to represent a pack of products. Here is the logo:

• better.BIZ - ERP software developed using Oracle Forms and Reports;
  
• better.CRM - CRM software developed in Oracle APEX;
  
• better.TASKS - Collaborating software to manage projects and tasks built with Oracle APEX.
  

Better.BIZ will be available online as a demo, one week from now, but the business model for this product will be based on local instalations. Better.CRM will also be available for an online 30 days demo in 2 weeks and will be based in a SaaS business model. And... since yesterday we have better.TASKS up and running.

You can see some screenshots of better.TASKS and better.CRM in our website. We are also working in some videos. If you want to see a live APEX application you can subscribe for a trial in our site. Unfortunately only available in Portuguese language, so maybe it's a good time to learn Portuguese ;) Just click one of the "Subscrever" links at the bottom of the table. I just hope you dont find to many bugs.

We have lots of hope in this new project. So... wish us luck.