I'm not actually at Oracle Openworld this week. Last week we went live with PeopleSoft, and I was unable to convince my project manager that it'd be OK if I went to San Francisco this week. So I'm browsing the blogs in an attempt to figure out what I might be missing. Here's what i've found for day Monday:
Oracle's Phillips Vows Lifetime Support in OpenWorld Keynote
The promise is encapsulated in what Oracle Corp. is calling its lifetime support program for all new and existing applications, including the myriad technologies acquired over the past 10 months: PeopleSoft Inc./J.D. Edwards, TimesTen Inc., Retek Inc., i-flex Solutions and, most recently, Siebel Systems Inc.
"As long as someone is using one of our applications, there will be some level of support," Phillips told a packed room that represented a good chunk of the 35,000 showgoers that have bulked up the city this week.
Phillips gave no details as to what "some level of support" means. But he had on Sunday alluded to a gradual backing-off from product innovation during an address to the Oracle Applications Users Group.
During that talk, Phillips said that after some five years, it's likely that only critical product flaws will be addressed.
Oracle unveils Virtualization Software
Looks like Oracle is jumping on the bandwagon with their own Xen-based virtualizaiton product, and many Oracle applications including Enterprise Linux and Oracle database is certified to work with it. Seems like they'd be behind Microsoft and VMWare in this space, but I'm sure there's a really good strategy behind the new offering. Maybe they'll start shipping PeopleSoft in a VM so the install process will be a no-brainer! I can't wait to download and try it out!
Here are a couple of notable articles I found on technorati:
http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2007/11/12/into-the-lions-den-oracle-openworld/
http://softwaresafari.typepad.com/software_safari_premium_b/2007/11/oracle-openworl.html
So what did you find interesting, those of you who actually got to attend?
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