Re: Who's going to OracleWorld?

From: Niall Litchfield <n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk>
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 12:43:03 +0100
Message-ID: <3f5330ca$0$259$ed9e5944@reading.news.pipex.net>

"Geomancer" <pharfromhome_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:cf90fb89.0308311328.40f27350_at_posting.google.com...
> With OracleWorld coming next week I am wondering if it is worth the
> trip to San Francisco.
>
> I heard that most of the presentations are hyping Oracle Grid stuff,
> and that there will be very few "indepent" expert presenters. The
> IOUG only got to pick a few dozen presenters, and the rest are Oracle
> employees.

Well there is an index of sessions available from the Oracle World links on the otn site. Seem to be a fair few non-Oracle people there to me. There does seem to be a big emphasis on 10g (as opposed to Grid computing) but that's fair enough, surely the whole point of OW this year from Oracle's perspective is to hype 10g.

> On the other hand, this Grid stuff might be cool. . . .

Can't see it myself. On the other hand we're only a 150 million a year organisation with 3000 staff so probably small fry as far as Oracle are concerned. Grid computing in the 2-4 processor intel architecture market I suspect is some years off.

On the other hand some of the 'self managing' stuff, the beginning of the end for imp/exp etc etc look to be good stuff to me.
>
> Who is coming next week?

Sadly not. SAOUG in Sun City and UKOUG in Birmingham for me.

Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK Received on Mon Sep 01 2003 - 06:43:03 CDT