RE: Old author, (sort of) old book... New licensing

From: Post, David (Corporate) <Dave.Post_at_Staples.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 10:02:12 -0400
Message-ID: <E77431CF9E0AD61198B30002A5F397FB0B8ACF91@fraex24.staples.com>

This is good news. The book is a great reference for IO systems. = Since it
has 8i in the title people tend to leave it on my bookshelf these days = which
is fine with me. I think I may hide it now though. =20

Dave

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From: Mogens N=F8rgaard [mailto:mln_at_miracleas.dk]=20 Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 7:23 PM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Cc: James Morle
Subject: Old author, (sort of) old book... New licensing

I've looked and looked for excuses - however remote - for telling you=20 this, but no Subjects seemed appropriate. As I've noted several times=20 before, James Morle's book Scaling Oracle8i is not half bad.

In fact, there are only a few problems with James' book:

It has '8i' in the title - but who cares, if it's good?
It costs money - but not a lot, and the '8i' makes it cheaper
It is hard to find - since it has gone out of print
It therefor does not sell - so James does not make any money

The unusual thing about James is that he on occasion sits down and=20 thinks. This time he came up with the idea of making his book freely=20 available using the Creative Commons license scheme.

The publisher thought this was a good idea. So James will release his=20 book for free Real Soon Now.

I'm doing a short 'Welcome on board' (I wasn't born when James wrote = the=20
book, so here is my chance), and James is rewriting the introduction to =

address some of the issues raised in the chapters that might not be=20 relevant anymore (or maybe they are, but under disguise). When that is=20 done, the book will be there for everybody to download and enjoy.

With luck it might hit the streets at the same time as the Tales Of The =

OakTable book...

I'll be back.

Jonathan?

Best regards,

Mogens

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