A couple of interesting papers discussing the portability issues and challenges involved when trying to port Drupal to the freely available versions of Oracle and DB2.
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software upgrades
Drupal gets an upgrade to 4.7.4 via the Bluehost Fantastico auto-installer.
The Wiki gets converted to MediaWiki simply because it is a lot easier on the eye. This software requires PHP5 and I was originally on a server running PHP4. However I read that Bluehost does also support PHP5. I just asked politely and got moved to a different server. No fuss. No questions. Technical support just did it. Quickly and efficiently.
Of course, neither package is currently used but that's beside the point.
DreamHost upgraded to the recently released WordPress 2.0.5 almost immediately. I think I prefer Bluehost's strategy of waiting a while for any creases to be ironed out before upgrading.
Drupal supports Oracle database
Just installed and configured Drupal 4.7.3 and noted an announcement asking for volunteers to test newly added support for the Oracle database.
Most open source, content management systems (WordPress, Joomla et al) use MySQL so it will be interesting to see whether there is much demand for a CMS running on an Oracle database.
On a similar note, Oracle are likely to confirm that the next major release of Siebel (8.0) will be available on the Linux platform. The official announcement is expected at Oracle OpenWorld later this month. This isn't wholly unexpected as support for Linux in Siebel 8.0 was included in the public Statement of Direction (May 2006).
The availability of the Siebel on Linux is is likely to be an attractive option for smaller companies, some of whom who already deploy the Siebel database on a Linux platform.