Oracle Database Management Strategic Directions

1. Best Practices for managing Oracle database servers.
2. Oracle Fusion Middleware products like J2EE, ADF, XML, BPEL, SOA, Web Services, Discoverer...).
3. Oracle Application Servers and Apache.

Saturday night we had an IOUG board meeting and invited some key volunteers from the conference to join us. It was a great dinner and a lot of fun to discuss upcoming IOUG activities and events for the upcoming conference.

Sunday morning I had some early morning meetings and did some final preparation for a 90 minute expert panel I was leading on Oracle Database 11g New Features. I had a lunch meeting and headed over to the Moscone Center. I got registered and headed up to the IOUG booth where I ran into a number of board members from the IOUG and key leaders from the IOUG. It seems like everywhere I went I was running into people I knew and everyone was full of smiles and you could feel the excitement.

IOUG Helps Launch the Start of Oracle Open World

The International Oracle Users Group (IOUG) was given a large number of presentation slots to launch Oracle Open World. Key IOUG leaders delivered technical presentations ranging from Oracle Database 11g New Features (my presentation), RAC, ASM, Oracle Application Server, Security, Oracle Fusion Middleware, etc. all focusing on best practices.

The IOUG has always emphasized best practices. It was great to see the IOUG get recognized for leadership in the technology side of Oracle.

The agenda for the week is one of the best I’ve every seen at an Oracle conference. Some things that stand out to me at the conference include:

• Great layout of technical presentations focusing on Oracle Database 11g.
• Large emphasis on Oracle Fusion Middleware.
• Strong focus on Enterprise Web 2.0 technologies.
• Oracle Applications seem to be everywhere.
• Great evening events with Billy Joel, Stevie Nicks and Fleetwood Mac.
• New Unconference activities.
• Open World Connect allows networking with other conference attendees. A great way to bring people together. This is a new level of networking at conferences which includes the opportunity to start your own blog.

Attendees had a choice of getting a flash drive with the conference technical presentations or getting a hard copy book. I liked being give that choice. I preferred the flashdrive. I’m slowly making a move off of hard copy materials and moving everything to a wiki or web sites. With Enterprise Web 2.0 growing in momentum we are all going to need to make the move to more electronic materials.