Re: Oracle Open World Opinions?

Michael Taylor wrote:
>
> I thought the content was extremely interesting this year (particularly the
> details on NCA), but was very disappointed with the organization of the
> events (crowds, etc.). I was dismayed that my registration was 'lost'
> and I had to resubmit my payment even after the original had cleared -
> This IS a database company, right???
>
> In general the sessions were good but on several ORACLE-led sessions,
> the speaker NEVER SHOWED. No cancellation notification, but just an
> expensive waste of my time. This is particularly annoying when the
> speaker is from Oracle.
>
> The Network Computer itself is a very large question mark as to whether
> it will make its mark, but even without it I'm very interested in the push
> to 3-tier client/server and the possibility of net-enabling existing Oracle
> apps. The campground demonstrations of Forms over the web were
> very impressive. Hey and its always fun to bash Microsoft, huh? :)
>
> My other lasting impression is how OLD the Jefferson Airplane relics
> are...oh well...
>

I didn't want to sound too negative, but so you won't feel alone they didn't have my registration or 2 of my colleagues registration and we had to give them a credit card number. Supposedly they'll only use the credit card if they don't receive the check after 30 days from the end of the conference (we sent the check over a month ago).

I had several presentations cancelled too which was a little irritating especially if you picked that presentation over another at the same time (which usually turned out to be at the other side of the convention center). My main problem was that I went to some presentations that had great titles, but little technical content (I didn't need someone to read me their slides), some examples would have been nice.

I think the Network Computer has a lot of potential and if the price/performance is as good as they showed (I'm a little skeptical about real world performance) we just may have a chance at overthrowing the evil MS empire ;-).

Douglas Scott
dsscott_at_gte.net Received on Mon Nov 11 1996 - 00:00:00 CET