Netretail's online retail operation benefits from personal contact
- by christopher.jones
Hot on oracle.com is a snapshot
of Netretail Holding B.V. profiling their use of PHP and Oracle
technology such as Oracle RAC cluster database to become a leading
online retailer across Central and Eastern Europe.
We've also just refreshed our key PHP Scalability and High Availability whitepaper which talks
about connection pooling (DRCP) and Fast Application Notification
(FAN). We brought it up to date for 11gR2 and PHP 5.3. It now
includes the new 11gR2 V$CPOOL_CONN_INFO view, the new columns for
DBA_CPOOL_INFO, information about LOGOFF triggers, and information
about the support for Client Result Caching with DRCP.
Back to Netretail. Two of their secrets to success are keeping
technically up to date, and networking. That is, networking in the
business sense. I had the pleasure of meeting Michal Táborský (@whizz), the Chief System
Architect, when he was in California for a Velocity conference.
Michal took time to visit Oracle HQ and talk with our developers about
his then current architecture and future needs. I also met his
manager at last year's Oracle OpenWorld conference.
Having built up a relationship with us, Netretail now has access to
Oracle Development staff. While this will never bypass Oracle Support
(which have tools, systems etc that are needed and useful for
resolving issues), it makes communication easier for some classes of
questions. It helps discussions that will let us improve Oracle
products, and make Netretail stronger.
I like this. And there's no reason why you can't talk with us
too. You know where to email
me.
