ORACLE

Sept. 12, 2017

Ousted NSC Official Takes Job at Oracle

Ezra Cohen-Watnick, who was fired from the National Security Council in August, has landed a new job at the Washington, D.C. office of Oracle, the Silicon Valley software giant, according to two sources with knowledge of his move.

His new job title is not confirmed and the company declined a request for comment.

The Trump administration already has ties to the company. Safra Catz, CEO of the company along with Mark Hurd, was on the executive committee of the Trump transition team, making her unique among Silicon Valley executives, who have either publicly criticized the administration or avoided being too closely associated with it (one big exception to this is billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel). The Trump transition team even talked to her about becoming the U.S. Trade Representative or Director of National Intelligence, according to a Bloomberg report. In January, she wrote an op-ed in The Hill, arguing why Steven Mnuchin, Trump’s choice for Treasury Secretary, needed to be confirmed quickly.

https://www.justsecurity.org/44897/ousted-nsc-official-takes-job-oracle-cohen-watnick/

ORACLE has a BRIDGE to the CLOUD

JDBC-ODBC Bridge

The JDBC-ODBC Bridge allows applications written in the Java programming language to use the JDBC API with many existing ODBC drivers. The Bridge is itself a driver based on JDBC technology ("JDBC driver") that is defined in the class sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver. The Bridge defines the JDBC sub-protocol odbc.

Status of the JDBC-ODBC Bridge

The JDBC-ODBC Bridge should be considered a transitional solution; it will be removed in JDK 8. In addition, Oracle does not support the JDBC-ODBC Bridge. Oracle recommends that you use JDBC drivers provided by the vendor of your database instead of the JDBC-ODBC Bridge.

Why use ODBC at all?

The ideal is "Pure Java": no native code, no platform dependent features. But you may need to begin your development effort right away, without waiting for your DBMS to offer a Java-only JDBC driver. Partly native drivers, such as the JDBC-ODBC Bridge, let you create programs that easily adapt to Pure Java drivers as they become available.

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/jdbc/bridge.html

Administering Oracle Identity Cloud Service

Understanding the Bridge

The bridge provides a link between your Microsoft Active Directory enterprise directory structure and Oracle Identity Cloud Service. Oracle Identity Cloud Service can reconcile with this directory structure so that any new, updated, or deleted user or group records are transferred into Oracle Identity Cloud Service. Because of this reconciliation, the state of each record is synchronized between Microsoft Active Directory and Oracle Identity Cloud Service.

https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/paas/identity-cloud/uaids/understanding-bridge.html