General Open World news

Today is the closure of Open World, the end of a week where Peter R. de Vries got his Emmy, Larry found his ‘X’ and Obama and McCain discuss with Bush what ‘x’ to use for $ 700 Billion.

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Oracle OpenWorld 2009: October 11 – 15

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Ellison Unleashes HP Oracle Database Machine
In his much-anticipated keynote address, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison announced Oracle’s first-ever hardware product, the HP Oracle Database Machine. Introduced as the world’s fastest database machine, the HP Oracle Database Machine improves data warehouse query performance by a factor of 10 or more. The machine is a combination of smart storage software from Oracle and industrystandard hardware from HP; it consists of a grid of Oracle Database servers and a grid of new Oracle Exadata Storage Servers packaged in a single rack along with the required InfiniBand infrastructure and related hardware.
“Talk about extreme performance—you’re looking at the world’s fastest database machine,” said Ellison, as the HP Oracle Database Machine rose from beneath the stage next to him. “For the first time, customers can get smart performance storage designed for Oracle data warehouses that is 10 times faster. And this is 1,400 times larger than Apple’s largest iPod,” he added, prompting laughter from the standing-room-only crowd.
Enterprise data warehouses are experiencing phenomenal growth, explained Ellison, as data volume triples in size every two years. “The issue is, you still have to get at that data to run your business, but the pipes are real bottlenecks,” said Ellison. “We’ve developed software that does more database processing directly at the disc drive, so less data has to travel over pipes, and combined that with HP’s extreme hardware—wider pipes and more of them. The performance improvement is truly amazing,” he added. Read the full story in today’s newspaper

Larry goes eXtreme!

Two years after the moment that Oracle went into Operating Systems – Unbreakable Linux – today Larry announced that Oracle (partnering with HP) will sell hardware also. And it’s not a simple commodity server… It’s the HP Oracle Database Machine. This beast contains 8 database servers (with 64 cores in total) and 14 eXadata servers (with 112 cores). And an enormous amount of storage: 1400 times more than the largest iPod! I think it could contain all mp3′s in the world…
An eXadata Server (officially known as the HP Oracle Exadata Programmable Storage Server) contains 2 processors with 8 cores each, 12 disks, Enterprise Linux and – and this is the coolest part – Parallel Query processing capability for every disk. By bringing processing capability close to the storage, the amount of data going through the wires from a storage server to a database server is dramatically reduced – because results are passed instead of data blocks. Because of this architecture the performance will remain the same as the database is growing – just add some more servers and it will be fine. So this is the last piece of the grid-puzzle: Next to Fusion Middleware grid and Database Grid, Oracle can provide us now with Storage Grid.
The performance of this thing is gigantic: tests proved that queries will run 10 to 50 (!) times faster than on current available hardware.
And now of course the closing question: What does it cost?
A Database Machine costs $650,000 – which is $4,000 per terabyte, and that is much cheaper than other storage around. Apart from that there is ‘some’ license involved for the software : $1,680,000 (and surely an annual fee of 15% of that amount). So it’s not for free…but it can replace a room full of your current hardware!

Some impressions from our inside reporter
• When Logica focus on “Committed, Innovate & Open” (CIO) it inspired oracle to “Complete, Open & Integrated (COI)”
• The main news was about Hardware. Co-operation between oracle and HP for storage systems
• Charles Philips had dinner with customers but couldn’t cook ….. score for Paul Schuijt.

Also check the photo impressions. http://picasaweb.google.com/leovlist/2008092224OowFotos#

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Today mr Oracle himself will give his vision, will we finally hear about the ‘X’?

Oracle’s Kurian: Integration Fundamentals
Oracle Senior Vice President of Fusion Middleware Thomas Kurian showcased how Oracle’s middleware stack can help companies gain a competitive edge during his keynote at Oracle OpenWorld on Tuesday afternoon. Kurian focused on how Oracle’s data integration, business intelligence, and enterprise performance management products help companies clean up information, analyze it, and use it to make management decisions. He showcased Oracle products that help businesses share information, including solutions for content management, collaboration, portals, and identity management.

Kurian introduced Oracle EPM Architect, a new product that unifies and aligns processes across EPM systems. “[Oracle] EPM Architect allows you to define the facts, dimensions, and calculations you use to do your planning and financial management processes in a consistent way,” said Kurian. The new release includes a number of new features and modules, including Oracle Workforce Planning, Oracle Capital Budget Planning, and Oracle Capital Expense Planning. Also included is a new capability for predictive analytics. “This new capability allows you to take your plan and budget, load it into a spreadsheet interface called [Oracle] Crystal Ball, and run simulations and make decisions based on the simulated data and the different kinds of simulations that you do,” said Kurian.

Kurian also introduced Oracle Profitability Management, a solution focusing on an area that is important for companies as they go through the budgeting cycle. “It’s different from other profitability management solutions in that it allows you to do a top-down allocation of revenue, cost, and other profitability drivers,” said Kurian. “It’s also built on Oracle Essbase, so you can correlate your profitability calculations with your plans and budgets.” In the second part of his keynote, Kurian focused on Oracle’s Enterprise 2.0 space. He showcased the integration between Oracle WebCenter, Oracle Universal Content Management, and Oracle Beehive.
He then discussed how Oracle WebCenter and Oracle Beehive allow people to work together more effectively using the information they have, and how Oracle Identity Management ensures that that information is secure.

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The X is coming’…
 

Charles Phillips Keynote Why Moscone North Was Buzzing
This morning Oracle President Charles Phillips set the tone for Oracle OpenWorld by calling this “the Year of Innovation.” He then backed up his statement over the next hour by demonstrating just what Oracle has accomplished since we last met at Oracle OpenWorld.

First he rolled through some numbers for perspective: Oracle has made 50 acquisitions in 44 months. We now offer 3,000 products. Our number of employees has grown from 40,000 to 85,000 since the acquisition strategy began, and one-third of these new employees joined us through acquisitions. We have 20,000 developers working across 30,000 servers. And we will invest about $3 billion this year in pure research and development.

Our overall product strategy, Phillips said, remains the same. To provide products that are complete, open, and integrated. They are complete so we can control all the components and add value. They’re open to create standard communication between Oracle components, and with third-party components. They’re preintegrated to reduce the amount of integration the customer has to do and to reduce the growing complexity of IT systems. Read the full story.

The keynote of Phillips and Rozwat had a smal Dutch touch, besides Michael Phelps the CIO of KPN Jan Muchez was brought on-stage to tell the World about Oracle success.

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General Facts
As Oracle OpenWorld expects to attract 43,000 attendees and deliver 1,800 conference sessions during its September 21 – 25, 2008 conference, the company is leveraging mobile and enterprise 2.0 technologies to help attendees customize their experiences for maximum relevance.

Using Oracle Mix, Oracle’s business networking technology for bringing Oracle customers, partners, developers and employees together, more than 300 users in the community voted on the sessions they would like to see Oracle offer at this year’s Oracle OpenWorld conference. The results of the voting can be found here. Oracle Mix is also helping attendees connect and create communities around common interests.

New this year, the Oracle OpenWorld Blog has started a dialogue about the conference and enables content-area experts and attendees to share insights about all aspects of the conference — from where to stay and things to do in San Francisco to session content.

For up-to-the-minute schedule information, Oracle OpenWorld attendees will be able to voluntarily subscribe to a mobile messaging service to receive reminders of their schedule, as well as information on any changed sessions.

Oracle Announces Oracle OpenWorld(R) San Francisco 2008 Keynote Lineup
Here you can find the keynote schedule. It looks like no special Apps key note is planned.