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The Open Road: "Red Hat has been taking a beating in the stock market recently, but in a recent research note leading analyst Mark Murphy of Piper Jaffray thinks this represents an exceptional opportunity to buy into a "deeply undervalued" company."

InternetNews: "Oracle's Better File System for Linux (BTRFS) is gearing up but what will it do and who will use it?"

On the PHPBuilder.com site today there's a new tutorial continuing in their Oracle theme about using the ADOdb libraries to access the database from your application.

The Open Road: "At what point -- or, rather, at what price -- does Oracle give up its Quixotic Unbreakable Linux quest and simply buy the real thing?"

In a young market, there is also confusion being sewn by companies that aren't committing entirely to Internet-based computing, including Microsoft, an Oracle exec suggests.

The Open Road: "The even better news if you're open-source vendor Red Hat? Shrinking IT budgets are your friend."

Packt: "We will look into the details of how PostgreSQL handles transactions and how it can be advantageous over Oracle's Transaction Model."

The ZendCon and Oracle OpenWorld conferences are back-to-back in September this year. There are Oracle sessions at ZendCon, and PHP sessions at OOW; I'll blog on those later.

Both have Unconference sessions: http://www.zendcon.com/ZendCon08/public/wiki/UnCon_Talks http://wiki.oracle.com/page/Oracle+OpenWorld+Unconference Your Task: Sign up on the...

Nomination and voting for "Customer Selected Sessions" at Oracle Open World is still taking place on Oracle Mix.

As expected, DB-centric sessions have the early running with most interest.

However if you want to see PHP more prominent at the conference, a couple of PHP sessions have registered:

https://mix.oracle.com/ideas/32655-php-internet-information-server-and-o...

https://mix.oracle.com/ideas/26997-ignite-your-oracle-and-php-experience...

Or you could always nominate your own session.

It's like Open World Idol, but you only get one performance.

Christopher Jones has a quick post with some information about a user group meeting happening in Brazil where the upcoming topic will cover the powerful combination of PHP and Oracle.