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Off to Oracle Openworld
Posted by Jay Caviness in Oracle Openworld, general on October 9th, 2009
I am leaving for Openworld tomorrow and presenting on Monday. I will be at most of the IOUG RAC-SIG events. Feel free to say hello, I look forward to seeing everyone again this year.
Larry Ellison Keynote – Oracle Openworld
Posted by Jay Caviness in Oracle Openworld on September 24th, 2008
What a line, it was about 1/2 mile long, around the front of Moscone North, down the side of the Metreon and in front of the Yerba Buena Gardens, all to get in and see the big man himself.
Safra is out now previewing the partnership with HP, which I know pretty well. Ann Livermore, EVP for HP is out to speak on the partnership with Oracle. HP is now over 300,000 employees with the purchase of EDS (though I hear quite a few will be laid off in the next three years). HP is now #2 as a services company only to Big Blue itself, IBM.
Ann is going over the move of HP from 80+ data centers to 6 and 6000 applications to 1600 and have reduced data center operations to 2% of revenue. Cost, size and the greening of IT is a cost for everyone, but I have been working with HP Blade Servers (c3000 and c7000) for some time now and I am quite impressed.
Intermission and I now know why they didn’t bring the Oracle/BMW racing boat into the Moscone Center this year, the new one is an ultra fast and huge hydrofoil tri-maran.
Raw Iron part deux – Larry is up now and talking about the storage subsystems bandwidth problem that is happening even now. Oracle is going into the hardware business, but not alone, building the Exadata server with HP. 12TB of raw storage, 8 cores (dual quad-core), 2 1GB Infiniband pipes per server and moved the parallel query software into the firmware of the disk drive. So he is creating a storage grid to work with a database grid. This is great for DW or datamart apps, but I am not sure how this will help OLTP and OLAP applications, no data as of today. While it is immediately available today, but only on 32bit Linux. I have see this before and it drives me crazy, 64-bit x86 is the norm now, why is Oracle developing directly on 64bit?
Larry and Mark Hurd are speaking together in a mutual admiration society. I should be nicer, Mark Hurd had done a really good job turning HP around and taking it from a company that had only one profitable division (printers) to a thriving company. Larry, he goes without saying, arrogant, sure, but one of the best forward thinkers I have ever seen, I sure wish I had kept my stock from the 90’s in Oracle that I purchased when I was am employee! That is all for the final keynote of the session, I am off to give my first presentation now.
It’s Larry Day
Posted by Jay Caviness in Oracle Openworld on September 24th, 2008
Those of you with kids will understand that I now have the tune to “Larry Boy” from VeggieTales in my head! Wednesday is the traditional big day here at Openworld for Larry Ellison to give all of us his feel on the state of technology and any major announcements for Oracle. I will be blogging live from the keynote.
Today is also my big day, I will be presenting my first of two sessions today at 5p, I know my subject matter, but still get a little nervous before these things as I don’t want to miss any points.
Openworld Opening Keynote
Posted by Jay Caviness in Oracle Openworld on September 22nd, 2008
San Francisco – 9a PDT – Charles Phillips the president of Oracle kicked off the first full day of Openworld by demonstrating the changes (via aquisition and development) to the Oracle application stack in the last few years. He was very clear that Oracle had captured a large market share and the top spots in most industries. Oracle grew by 25% this year and 78% in the last three years. Yep, Oracle is a stable and growing company. The integration of Peoplesoft, Seibel, BEA and the other 50 companies that Oracle has acquired in the last few years has gone better than I ever would have guessed and has really pushed Oracle to the forefront of the applications and middleware business.
Charles announced (and introduced) Olympian Michael Phelps and spoke with him for a few minutes about his training regime, compariing it to the average Oracle developer. No comparison! Michael will be back later as part of the NetApp keynote.
Oracle Beehive as been the “buzz” of the early conference and was announce by Chuck Rozwat this morning, it is an integration and collaboration tool for email, voicemail, search, conferencing , wikis, etc. Centralized by policy and security and all run on an Oracle database. It can use Oracle’s or industry standard clients (Outlook, etc) on Windows (Active Directory) and Linux. Fully Web 2.0 it can run as an Exchange server or in place of one (or 200).
It looks like a pretty cool tool, the demo shows Outlook that can store documents, presentations, chat transcripts, etc., in personal workspaces accessed directly from Outlook. I must say, it would be nice to access all the Sharepoint docs I use almost daily directly from Outlook since I am running that tool all day.
Oracle Database – Oracle now at 49.5% of database market share. 11.1.0.7 is released finally, the firest patchset for 11g. Also in new announcements, in-memory cache by integrating the TimesTen software. Not as many updates as I had hoped (11gR2).
Oracle Linux –
BTRFS File system – favorite filesystem now a default.
VM – VM guest failover, optimized by 16% with Intel. Oracle product Certification including RAC! That is going to shake things up at work considering the bias toward other VM companies.
Metalink is being replaced/updated by “My Oracle Support” which makes much more use of the configuration managment tool and more personalized design.
That is it for the first keynote. More will be coming as it happens.