General OpenWorld news

OpenWorld 2007 facts and figures:
- From 11 November until 15 November 2007
- 43.000 visitors (124 different countries)
- 1.625 sessions
- 600 demo products
- 73.000 hotel rooms
- 178 Shuttle busses
- 60.144 chairs
- 45.000 setup hours

Use this link to view all keynotes: http://www.oracle.com/openworld/2007/keynotes.html

General OpenWorld news

No keynotes on the last day of OpenWorld.

Podcast: Oracle and Sun VMs, Fusion revelations and more…
This week on the Dan & David Show we discuss the big news from Oracle OpenWorld–virtualization platforms from Oracle and Sun and the latest revelations about Oracle’s Fusion applications.

Check this link (http://www.mefeedia.com/tags/openworld) for some interesting podcasts.

Use this link to view all keynotes: http://www.oracle.com/openworld/2007/keynotes.html

Fusion

This is the only screenshot I could find for now. Watch the keynote of Larry Ellison (Wednesday) to see the second glimpse (we had the first glimpse last year) of Oracle Fusion Applications.

General OpenWorld news

Although Larry Ellison isn’t a great performer on stage (my personal opinion!) everybody is looking forward to his keynote on OpenWorld as there always will be an announcement. This year’s announcement was Oracle VM (it has been announced three times this week). Some highlight from the presentation:

New server virtualization software and support

• Free product download (Available for download now via otn.oracle.com)

Runs both Linux and Windows

• 64-bit and 32-bit guests
• Up to 64-way SMP
• Up to 32 virtual processors per guest
• Includes live migration at no additional cost
• Integrated, browser-based management console
• Free downloadable VM templates

Oracle products certified now

• Oracle Database, Oracle Middleware, Oracle Applications

One support call for the complete stack

THE FIRST FUSION APPLICATIONS ARE COMING IN THE FIRST HALF OF 2008

General OpenWorld news

There where two important keynote sessions on the second day of OpenWorld. The first one was from Thomas Kurian, which is the Senior VP of Fusion Middleware. We haven’t been able to follow the keynote live so have a look at the keynote website to watch the keynote yourself.

The second keynote was from Ed Abbo. He is the Senior VP of Applications Development. Ed Abbo is the replacement of John Wookey, who left Oracle just before OpenWorld started. During his keynote Ed Abbo talked about the new releases of E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards and Siebel they have bringing out this year. He focused on the Application Integration Architecture product Oracle is building. With these processes they want to make the integration between the existing applications easier by leveraging Oracle Fusion Middleware techniques.

The last part of his keynote Ed Abbo talked about the development of Fusion Applications. Yes, it is still a complete new product and Yes, it is still based on Fusion Middleware techniques. Based on portlets in WebCenter they showed some parts of the new application with a lot of fancy BAM portlets. Compared with last year I totally missed the widgets, integration with the daily used tools like excel and outlook and most important ….. timelines. He didn’t gave a timeline for the first release of Fusion Applications. Hopefully Larry Ellison will give some more information about the Fusion Application Timelines in his keynote.

Later in a Q&A session Ed Abbo pointed out that the development of Fusion Applications is still on track for 2008.

Use this link to view all keynotes: http://www.oracle.com/openworld/2007/keynotes.html

General OpenWorld news

A number of Keynotes have been held during the first two days of Oracle OpenWorld. On Sunday Larry Ellison and Safra Katz where going over 30 years of Oracle history and how their pizza boy became Oracle’s first CFO.

• Yesterday Charles Phillips started OpenWorld officially with his keynote. No spectacular announcements but here is a small list:
  Application Integration Architecture 2.0 (with new process integration packs
• Database Vault & Audit Vault
• Oracle Agile PLM (Product Lifecycle)

After the introduction Chuck Rozwat (responsible for the development of Fusion Middleware) gave a couple of demo’s on stage of Fusion Middleware parts.

• BPA Suite to BPEL transformation
• Enterprise Manager based on Services
• Database Vault & Audit Vault

Use this link to view all keynotes: http://www.oracle.com/openworld/2007/keynotes.html

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