September 22, 2008

OpenWorld08: Monday Keynote (aka, the Chuck and Chuck show)

Coming in I wasn't expecting any big announcements today.  Anything major will probably come Wednesday at Ellison's keynote.


Some OOW stats: 43,000 attendees this year, 310 buses, 20x300 foot wide HD screen, $100M economic impact on Bay Area

Michael Phelps made a cameo it only lasted about a minute.  

Oracle Beehive was the one major new announcements.  This is integrated collaboration tool.  Oracle has tried this before (Collab Suite) to a pretty poor result.  This seems to be built on top of a bunch of the FMW stack: ECM, WebCenter, and BPEL.  One thing they did get right this time is embrace that Outlook 2007 and most folks are more comfortable in there.  It also incorporates aspects of the Identity Management Suite, including the IRM technology of revoking access to documents.

Also some discussion of Oracle VM.  Only interesting thing I caught was that RAC will be certified on VM configurations


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