For the last day of the show, I was in meetings all morning, afternoon, and evening. So I missed out on the conference, but from the Oracle OpenWorld daily newspaper, let me list some figures quoted in Lisa Palmer’s “OpenWorld Fun Facts”
· > 2,850 network connections
· At peak demand, the Oracle OpenWorld network handled 45 Mbps
· 3,423 caffeinated […]

At 8:30am Chuck Rozwat gave his keynote. It started with a “Safe Harbor” statement to humorously show the level of legalities Oracle (or any public company) has to comply with lately. He introduced Tom Mendoza, President of NetApp. Oracle is 28 years old, and led the industry with Intel and Microsoft. NetApp is in […]

Larry Ellison’s BMW Boat was displayed outside the keynote hall. It looked to be over 100 feet and people were impressed with it.
In the morning I was involved in IOUG activities. Breakfast was with the Fusion and Product Enhancement councils of the IOUC. Then was our IOUG BOD meeting where we discussed our strategic direction […]

This morning was the keynote from Oracle President Charles Phillips. The next few paragraphs are highlights of his presentation, with my blog continuing after:
There are 35,000 people attending OOW, which is a small city. Oracle is the largest enterprise software vendor in the world. Some interesting figures he mentioned was $11.8 billion revenue FY05, 275,000 […]

Today was the second day of SIGs. As President of IOUG I spent the day in the several IOUG SIG meetings. The first (starting at 8am) was the Cerner SIG. Cerner is a healthcare application, and Oracle is the vast majority of the backend database. The Cerner SIG liked how IOUG provided their listserv. Cerner […]

Saturday:
I arrived at Oracle OpenWorld on Saturday, for the “Extreme Weekend” events. Saturday was the first day of SIGS from the various major user groups. Entering Moscone West at about 1pm you could see that the registration lines were literally out the door. This was an omen of just how busy the week will be […]