A Pictorial Tale of Two Conferences (and more)
Recently I’ve attended two conferences two weeks apart in San Francisco, and the difference in style is shocking. One did not even feel like a conference, rather a Festival – Woodstock, Mardi Gras, SXSW – your pick:-) The other a decidedly more “closed” traditional corporate conference, so much so, that fellow commentators actually compared it [...]
Oracle Introduces Cloud and Social. My Perspective
by Oracle_Photos_Screenshots During a keynote that saw Larry Ellison make up for his abysmal performance of a few days before, and before bigger news events in Silicon Valley bought the tech world to its knees, a number of announcements were made with the usual Ellison flourishes. Curiously these two massive announcements were made towards the [...]
The Cloud Must Go On. Watch the Banned Benioff Keynote Live.
The best thing that may have happened to Salesforce.com at Oracle Open World is getting CEO Marc Benioff’s keynote cancelled. Oracle and Larry Ellison are now officially the Bad Guys (opinions are split on whether Larry is the Emperor, Darth Vader or God), @Benioff is the oppressed Folk Hero, Salesforce.com got thei $1M keynote [...]
Oracle’s Influencer Relations: Mom Are We There Yet?
A fellow Enterprise Irregular posed this question to the EI’s relative to the maturity of the industry and the acceptance of bloggers @ Oracle Open World:Especially after the Workday session where 20 of us from small and large firms all…
Oracle Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel: A Clean Break With Redhat?
As a part of Oracle Open World 2010, Oracle made some interesting announcements that is stirring up the tech circles. The first announcement is Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, which are cloudwashed high end Non Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) servers. This is basically Oracle’s attempt to swim with the cloud computing wave. After trying to dismiss [...]
Oracle Open World'08 Key Note – Cloudy Announcements!!
Live blogged from Oracle World There were quite a few interesting points mentioned in the keynote by Chuck Rozwat & Charles Philips. Here’s the Cloud specific items of note;. Chuck Rozwat listed the 3 key strategic directions of how Oracle approaches its Application Layer/product suite; Application Unlimited (New functionality, Enhanced functionality with Fusion middleware & [...]
