Starting Preparations for Oracle Open World 2006

Tim Hall mentioned the other day that our complementary Oracle Open World full conference passes came through, courtesy of the Oracle ACE program, which was rather nice.

As both Tim and I are paying for ourselves to go over, we're trying to keep to a reasonable budget and therefore we're staying in the King George Hotel, just off of Union Square. Under the Oracle group discount, it's $149 per night which is pretty reasonable - you can easily spend $300 or more if you want to. One or two of you might remember that I stayed there the first time I went to Open World - it's pretty basic actually but close to Union Square, the shops, trams and so on, and there's some good delis and diners next door which makes eating out quite cheap. Anyway, if anyone else we know is coming along (Andrew Clarke mentioned he might book there as well) then why not book yourself in there as well, if you're from Europe we can keep each other company on the first couple of days when we all wake up at 5.00am and head out of the hotel looking for some breakfast. The other amusing thing with the hotel is that it's "British Themed" which means they have High Tea in the afternoon, if you're feeling a bit homesick.

I've also got a couple of papers submitted for Open World - one through ODTUG on how the new Oracle BI Server works (query processing, caching, semantic layer, tuning and so on), one direct through Oracle on using Oracle BI Answers, BI Dashboard and BI Delivers to deliver "next generation" reporting. Hopefully at least one will get accepted, although it might be nice actually to just go along and be a spectator for once. Along with the other ACEs, there'll be an ACEs appreciation dinner, and a "meet the experts" session in the OTN Lounge later in the week. Add to this the fact that Oracle 11g should be in beta by Open World, and there'll be 40,000+ delegates, it should be good conference.