JavaOne and Oracle Develop vs Oracle OpenWorld

This year, Oracle OpenWorld will be held Sept 19-23rd in San Francisco. Also this year, JavaOne and Oracle Develop will be held Sep 19-23d in San Francisco. How can that be? Simple. Oracle has acquired the city of San Francisco. OK, not all of it. But an awful lot of it. And it didn’t actually [...]

JavaOne and Oracle Develop vs Oracle OpenWorld

This year, Oracle OpenWorld will be held Sept 19-23rd in San Francisco. Also this year, JavaOne and Oracle Develop will be held Sep 19-23d in San Francisco. How can that be? Simple. Oracle has acquired the city of San Francisco. OK, not all of it. But an awful lot of it. And it didn’t actually [...]

OOW BI Meetup: Change of Venue

If you’re going to Open World next week and were thinking about coming along to the BI Meetup we were planning for the Thirsty Bear on Monday night, we’ve got a change of venue. The Thirsty Bear has apparently got a private event on that night (or perhaps they didn’t like the sound of us [...]

Sign up now for "Oracle Develop" at OpenWorld

This October at Oracle OpenWorld we are adding an “event within an event” specifically aimed at developers. It’s called “Oracle Develop” and we have an entire 2 day track focused specifically on Oracle and .NET developers. We have entry level topics for those of you new to .NET as well many sessions covering advanced topics [...]

The biggest Openworld ever closed its doors – and what a great time it was

Last week was definetely insane! 40.000 customers, 10! locations around San Francisco, and more than 1600 sessions, all dedicated to the power of information sharing. As most of my team, I litterally spent the whole week at Oracle World, as we constantly went back and forth from the demo grounds, to Oracle Develop, located at [...]

Oracle Develop Unconference?

Some of you have no doubt attended, or at least are aware of, the Oracle OpenWorld Unconference, which will occur at the October show for the third year running. It is my belief that the largest pool of presenters and participants resides in the Developer population – Apps-inebriated Enterprise 2.0 types notwithstanding. This theory holds [...]