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http://www.oracle.com/us/openworld/036763.htm

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Oracle Open World 2010

I hope to see some of you at Oracle OpenWorld 2010 in San Francisco this year. Harold, Carey and I will be there and are looking forward to seeing some familiar faces and meet a few new people as well. We have a number of certification-related things going on this year - details are included below. Please don't hesitate to come by and and introduce yourself. I hope to see you there!

http://blogs.oracle.com/certification/2010/09/0362.html

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Grid Engine at Oracle Open World

I’m headed to Oracle Open World in San Francisco on Monday, so it was nice to see this post by Dan Templeton that describes the Grid Engine and HPC sessions. Topics include:

* Scalable Enterprise Data Processing for the Cloud with Oracle Grid Engine, Thursday 23-Sep-10 12:00-13:00
* Who’s Using Your Grid? What’s on Your Grid? How to Get More, Tuesday 21-Sep-10 17:00-18:00
* Extracting Real Value from Your Data with Apache Hadoop, Wednesday 22-Sep-10 12:30-14:30
* High-Performance Computing for the Oil and Gas Industry, Wednesday, 22-Sep-10 10:00-11:00

Dan says that presentations and training materials should be available at the conference site after the show is over.

http://insidehpc.com/2010/09/16/grid-engine-at-oracle-open-world/

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Oracle Open World keynote sets a dull tone

I can’t recall a major industry conference first day keynote where within 10 minutes I was getting bored and within 30 I was out the door - at least of the main hall. Such was the degree to which Oracle OpenWorld’s opening keynote captured my attention.

HP’s Ann Livermore gave what must count as the dullest infomercial I have ever witnessed. Twenty minutes in and I was gone. She might as well have recorded it and the beamed it out to the audience. The event wasn’t helped by the fact that the Moscone Center San Francisco WiFi can’t cope with thousands of people trying to get out onto the Internet at the same time. Colleague David Dobrin who was sitting next to me had a decent signal. I couldn’t connect. He kindly lent me his 3G iPad.

Fortunately, Frank Scavo had found the media room with wired ethernet connections. I headed off in that direction just in time to watch yet another infomercial before Larry Ellison, CEO Oracle took to the stage. I don’t know what possessed him to spend a good 45 minutes rambling on about the technical ins and outs of the Exalogic Elastic Cloud Compute box. box. As one person put it: “If a sales guy chose this as his presentation, Larry would’ve fired him.” It was excruciating.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/howlett/oracle-openworld-keynote-sets-a-dull-tone/2451

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