I'm not actually at Oracle OpenWorld this year. My project went live last week, and I was unable to convince my project manager that it was more important to attend a conference than to support the fledgling system.
So I've been reading blogs trying to figure out what happened today. Here's what I found:
Oracle Unveils Unlimited Support
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.
Oracle Announces Virtualization Software
Looks like Oracle has a Xen-based virtualization product that's already certified with several Oracle products including Enterprise Linux and Oracle Database. They seem to be late to the game compared to VMWare, and even Microsoft, but I'm sure it's all part of their master plan to conquer the data center. I can't wait to take it for a test drive!
Random thought about Project Fusion
I'm starting to think Oracle is going to continue to talk about "Fusion Middleware" and the software stack rather than a single comprehensive, re-platformed J2EE application for the forseeable future. The notes I'm seeing from Charles Phillips' keynote is discusses the layers in the fusion vision and SAAS is certainly stressed. This is starting to sound to me like more of a way to orchestrate and unify diverse applications (Seibel and Peoplesoft anyone?) than to deliver a single integrated application.
Here are some other articles I found interesting:
http://softwaresafari.typepad.com/software_safari_premium_b/2007/11/oracle-openworl.html
http://www.illuminata.com/perspectives/?p=397
http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2007/11/12/into-the-lions-den-oracle-openworld/
So those of you who actually got to attend -- what have you found interesting?!
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