ENTP gets ENTerPrise: working with Oracle

The fine folks at Oracle have been building a Rails-based social platform called Mix for their customers and employees to network and collaborate. For customers of Oracle, this is an invaluable site to see into the internals of Oracle and ask questions of the relevant teams in a public forum (“Where’s the 10G adapters for OSX Intel?”).

It was initially built on a JRuby + Oracle App server + Oracle DB stack, and has been growing since its launch around OpenWorld last year. Oracle has their excellent internal Apps Lab team hacking on the site, but due to timing constraints needed a fresh team to come in and kick some ass.

We’ve been busy adding some cool features like direct messaging, while learning the ins and outs of Oracle 10G and building WARs. Meanwhile, Justin and Kyle been super-busy on some of the coolest javascript I’ve ever seen, for some secret new features yet to be unveiled. There’s more to be released over the coming months in the lead-up to OpenWorld. (Honestly, I don’t know where Justin gets the time to work on Gitnub , Lighthouse and client work)!