Monday OOW - Ari Kaplan, IOUG
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 customers, 50,000+ employees, operating in 145 countries. 75% market share in Linux. 26,000 application customers: #1 in HR, #1 in SCM, #1 in CRM (with Siebel) 1.6 million active developers and DBAs.
Charles had a “15 second” overview of Oracle. Their GOAL is better information at a lower cost, their RESOURCES are innovation, scale, and persistence, and HOW they will achieve this is protect, extend, evolve. Oracle’s top priorities from customer input are getting feedback on product quality and roadmap, cost and maintenance, and relationship management.
Juergen Roettler is the new (1 year ago) EVP Oracle Support and On-Demand.
Oracle Fusion Architecture is achieved with SOA architecture. Business Process Management (BPM) is model driven, direct link from process design to system change, process transparency, inter-enterprise, continuous re-engineering, modeling… but within reason.
OFA: Oracle Fusion Architecture: model driven, service and event enabled, standards-based, information centric, grid ready. The Fusion Service Bus is the multi-protocol routing, message transformation, services and event mediation. The Fusion Service Registry is application integration services, process integration services, data and metadata services.
There are two “Fusion” initiatives within Oracle Corp. 1) “Project Fusion” is to build a single suite of applications over time. 2) “Oracle Fusion Middleware” is the Oracle middleware platform, including Java container, portal, identity management, business integration, business intelligence, management tools, developer tools, directory.
Today Oracle is announcing that Fusion Middleware works with IBM’s Websphere.
Charles Rozwat, EVP Server Technologies, and John Wookey, SVP Application Development came to the stage. Chuck announced in the last year 10g R2, with new security features, high-availability features, performance, and increased grid control. Fusion Middleware – single sign-in, and will be announcing release 3 this week. Collaboration suite – instant messaging, email, content management. John: Oracle applications use materialized views that other vendors do not. Project Fusion is both Oracle and Peoplesoft joining together but Oracle applications and Oracle technology coming together.
Raj Joshi, Managing Director of Infosys came onstage. They have 40,000 employees (10,000 Oracle-focused) and 500 clients with $2 billion revenue. Worked with Oracle e-business Suite and Oracle Fusion Middleware for their customers.
Paul Otellini, CEO of Intel then came out. Laptops with mobile CPUs (Intel Centrino) went from 15% in 2000 to 35% in 2005. The “new normal” is Wi-Fi hotspots, and San Francisco had a huge surge from 2003 to 2005 in hotspots. Going from single core chips to dual-core chips provides better performance. Google was spotlighted (and their cool “Google Earth”) relies on Intel dual-core servers.
After the keynote, I had meetings with several Oracle employees – from the Application Server group to the Identity Management group. After Oracle acquired Oblix, there has been some really important identity management, single sign-on, and other functionality that any DBA or architect would want to know about.
For dinner several IOUG BOD members met with high-level executives to discuss how IOUG is growing our value to executive-level professionals. Andy Flower, one of IOUG’s new BOD members, is heading up this program for IOUG. This is targeted to executives that need to understand how Oracle technology will solve their business problems – from data center consolidation to web services to compliancy issues to security and beyond. This is for the CIO, MIS Director, DBA Manager, VP of IT, and so on. At Collaborate 06 we will have a day for the executive management program. Great learning and discussion for the nearly 4 hour dinner – after which I chose to go to the hotel and call it a night (aside from writing this blog and catching up on a day of emails).