Oracle Open World Day 3 – Blogger Meetup
October 25th, 2006 by Mark Rittman
Tonight was the night that we organized our second annual Oracle Open World blogger meetup, this time at the Thirsty Bear bar next door to the Moscone. For a variety of reasons I’ve ended up in the Thirsty Bear every night since I’ve been here (and I’ll be there tonight, for the Oracle Press event) but it’s a big old place and we managed to find a few tables in a corner. Anyway, here’s a few photos:
- The “Team Photo”
- Lewis Cunningham
- Lucas Jellema (AMIS)
- Peter K, Lucas, Eddie Awad
- Laurent Schneider, Dimitri Gellis
- Steve Karam
- Eddie Awad
- Michael Siebert
- Henry Collingwood
- Tim Hall, making love to the camera
After a couple of hours about half of the attendees went on down to the Appreciation night at the Cow Palace, the rest of us went in search of a curry and ended up at a classy 24-hour self-service curry restaurant just around the corner from the Hilton. Here’s Andrew Clarke picking the Vindaloo and Laurent drinking a bottle of wine out of a brown paper bag. Let no-one say we can’t end the night in style.
Finally, a couple of Oracle press releases (how about that for an unexpected change of context). First off is the official announcement of Oracle BI Enterprise Edition 10.1.3.2 aka “Maui” (“scheduled for general availability in the next 12 months”, so don’t get too excited) and the new Web Center, extensively blogged about here, here and here, although at $50k per CPU on top of Application Server, it’s going to face competition from cheaper Web 2.0 suites out there. Looks a lot more funky than Portal though.
Next up along with Debra Lilley I’ve got a meeting with Chris Leone, then it’s a session on What’s New with Oracle BI Suite EE 10.1.3.2, followed by “Next-Generation Oracle Database Performance and Scalability: A Sneak Preview” which sounds very interesting. After that, I’ve got a bit of a clash – there’s an Oracle Server Technology Beta Program appreciation event, on at the same time as “The Making of the World’s Fastest and Most Scalable Database: A Look Under the Hood of Oracle Database 10g”, and with the Oracle Press appreciation event at the same time. So, the question is – Networking, or geeking out…?
October 25th, 2006 at 7:07 pm
You’ve got a real talent for taking ‘flattering’ photos of all of us, Mark. I can’t decide which is worse – the fact that I look like I’m 3 sheets to the wind, or the fact that I’m holding a guest pass to the Huster Club.
October 25th, 2006 at 7:49 pm
I’m guessing the first might explain the second, Michael?
October 25th, 2006 at 7:55 pm
LOL. Possibly. Let’s just say the woman passing out the cards had a rather large stack – of free pass cards that is. At least I still have the card to prove I didn’t actually redeem it.
October 25th, 2006 at 8:10 pm
Yeah, really flattering.
You can see on the pictures that I hadn’t my first brewery stout yet ;-)
Cheers!
October 28th, 2006 at 5:24 pm
[…] After the CERN session, it was time for a quick break (and rest my weary feet) before heading to Blogger Meetup which was held at the Thirsty Bear bar (which took some finding, although typically when Dimitri stopped to ask someone directions we were about 100 feet away from it. I have to admit, I feel a bit of a ‘fraud’ going to a Bloggers meetup, since it’s only recently that I’ve started writing my blog and don’t have that much ‘content’ to it yet, especially compared to the other people who were there. I met up with a lot of people whose blogs I’ve read for quite some time, I’d already met up with Tim Hall earlier in the week and he was his usual, very friendly self and we again chatted for quite a while. I also met Mark Rittman, Eddie Awad (who is a very nice guy, very very funny too), Andrew Clark and many many more (sorry for not listing everyone). Mark Rittman has some good photos on his blog […]