Welcome, Dev2Dev and Arch2Arch Members
Community Stats*
Number of registrations:
5 million+
Number of Discussion Forum Threads:
600,000+
Number of Discussion Forum Messages:
2 million+
Number of Published Technical Articles/Notes:
700+
Countries/Territories containing OTN members:
255
Country/Territory with most members:
U.S., with 1.8 million and counting
Country/Territory with fewest members:
Myanmar, with 2 and counting
* As of May 2008
|
The Oracle Technology Network is happy to welcome members of the BEA Dev2Dev and Arch2Arch communities. The OTN team, which now includes some of the very same people behind those BEA communities, is hard at work merging the best of Dev2Dev and Arch2Arch into OTN. In the coming weeks, all your familiar BEA community resources will emerge on OTN, enhanced by improved tools and increased opportunities for peer interaction and collaboration.
Interaction, Insight, Expertise
The Oracle Technology Network is the world's largest community of developers, DBAs, and architects using Oracle products and industry-standard technologies. Every day, members collaborate via OTN to share real-world insight, expertise, and best practices on how to build, deploy, manage, and optimize applications.
Join Up!
As a member of the Oracle Technology Network you will enjoy access to software downloads, discussion forums, documentation, wikis, podcasts, and blogs just as you do via Dev2Dev and Arch2Arch, plus much more.
Important Links
 |
Download Oracle-BEA software under the OTN Developer License |
|
Explore new Oracle-BEA product homepages (works in progress) |
|
Attend a local "BEA Welcome" event (occuring worldwide) |
|
Review the "Discussion Forums Mapping" wiki | Visit legacy BEA forums | See archived articles |
|
Join the "BEA Developers & Architects" Group on Oracle Mix (the official Oracle-centric social network) |
|
Watch the Oracle Fusion Middleware Strategy Briefing (July 1, 2008) Webcast replay |
|
See the BEA track at Oracle Develop at Oracle OpenWorld 2008 |
|
|
Demos
Frequently Asked Questions
Updated Aug. 11, 2008
What happened to the Dev2Dev Website?
As of Aug. 1, the Dev2Dev and Arch2Arch URLs redirect to the OTN homepage. Forums.bea.com, edocs.bea.com, and commerce.bea.com will remain accessible via those URLs for a time, with the latter two ending service on Aug. 31. Forums.bea.com will remain in read-only service until content migration to forums.oracle.com is complete (by the end of the calendar year).
Is BEA product information be available on OTN?
Yes. We are already deep into the migration process and have deployed many new Product Centers—with associated downloads, documentation, discussion forums, and other content—on OTN as of July 1, with more to follow in the coming weeks.
What are the license terms for OTN downloads?
Our motto here is "free to download, free to learn, unlimited evaluation time ". Under the OTN Developer License, you may use full versions of products at no cost, and for an indefinite period, while developing and prototyping your applications (or for strictly self-educational purposes). In some cases, certain downloads (such as Beta releases) have licenses with slightly different terms.
What about Arch2Arch specifically? Will there be Architect content/interaction on OTN?
Yes. Our new community lead in the Architect area, Bob Rhubart, is making Architecture a big focus area going forward for OTN; new Architecture Centers have already deployed on OTN, and subscriptions to Oracle's Arch2Arch Newsletter are already available.
What happend to Dev2Dev blogs?
Individual employee bloggers are responsible for migrating the content of their Dev2Dev blogs to blogs.oracle.com; no systematic migration is/was possible.
And Discussion Forums?
Oracle has an extremely large and active community at forums.oracle.com, which will be the migration point for migrated Dev2Dev/Arch2Arch forums content as well as the hosting point for new BEA-related forums. (No NNTP service is available; however, RSS feeds and email watches are baked in.) No issues there! (See a forums mapping doc here; until migration is complete forums.bea.com is still accessible in read-only mode.)
What happened to BEA Technology Day workshops?
Developers will continue to get free workshop-based training via the OTN Developer Day program.
Will there be BEA content at Oracle OpenWorld 2008?
Yes, there is BEA-related content at Oracle OpenWorld and Oracle Develop this year. Furthermore, formerly BEA customers can stop by the OTN Lounge to pick up a free "welcome" kit.
What is the fate of CodeShare?
Although the future of the CodeShare site is less clear than that of other resources discussed here, we hope to keep that site alive and viable into the future. We'll keep you updated as events unfold.
Will I continue to receive the Dev2Dev and/or Arch2Arch newsletters?
If you are a Dev2Dev newsletter subscriber, you will auto-magically receive Oracle's Dev2Dev Java Newsletter as soon as your subscription can be migrated. Similarly, Arch2Arch Advisor subscribers will receive Oracle's Arch2Arch Architect Newsletter (first edition in August) after the same process. In either case, no action is required from you to maintain your subscription, and you will be notified about how to opt-in or opt-out to other communications from Oracle.
I receive Dev2Dev/Arch2Arch content via RSS feeds today. Will I continue to receive those feeds?
No. However, Oracle offers RSS feeds for a wide variety of equivalent content. You will have to set up subscriptions through your feed reader or news aggregator.
How do I become an OTN Member?
If you are registered to download Oracle software or participate in Discussion Forums, you are already an OTN member. Otherwise registration is a free, fast, DIY process. Join us!
|
Bookmark
