{"id":31,"date":"2009-10-18T22:17:24","date_gmt":"2009-10-18T22:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oracle-internals.com\/blog\/?p=31"},"modified":"2014-01-26T22:18:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-26T22:18:00","slug":"openworld-2009-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oracle-internals.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/18\/openworld-2009-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenWorld 2009 Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having now had several days to recover from, and reflect on, my trip to beautiful\u00a0San Francisco<\/a>\u00a0for\u00a0Oracle OpenWorld 2009<\/a>, I wanted to follow up with a blog post describing my experience.<\/p>\n

First, before anything else, I went to\u00a0In-N-Out Burger<\/a>\u00a0where I had my usual Double-Double with fries animal style; oh, how I missed thee.<\/p>\n

Next, with the exception of\u00a0Larry\u2019s keynote on Wednesday<\/a>, I skipped the rest of keynotes.\u00a0 While I wanted to attend Michael Dell\u2019s, I was hungry and decided on breakfast at\u00a0Mel\u2019s Drive-in<\/a>\u00a0instead.\u00a0 Out of coincidence, I ended up sitting next to\u00a0Mark Prichard<\/a>, Senior Principal Product Manager for WebLogic at Oracle; we ended up discussing\u00a0Tuxedo<\/a>\u00a0and some of the features Oracle has been adding to it since the BEA acquisition.\u00a0 A bit later, I visited the Tuxedo booth to learn more and was quite happy to see Oracle putting more resources into developing such a great product as Tuxedo.<\/p>\n

Day-By-Day<\/strong>
\nOn Monday, I attended a couple sessions, including one on TimesTen caching for Oracle, as well as the OTN Night event.\u00a0 At the event, I had a great discussion with several cool Oracle users and, with the exception of a few incorrect answers to questions for \u201cOracle Jeopardy\u201d, it was a great night.<\/p>\n

Tuesday was a busy day.\u00a0 Surprisingly, during\u00a0my session<\/a>\u00a0I saw former\u00a0EnterpriseDB<\/a>\u00a0colleague, fellowPostgres<\/a>\u00a0developer, and new Google employee\u00a0Greg Stark<\/a>.\u00a0 We discussed several different database-related topics during lunch and then attended\u00a0the Hybrid Columnar Compression session<\/a>\u00a0given by\u00a0Bill Hodak<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Amit Ganesh<\/a>.\u00a0 Based on the simplified diagram displayed in the session, my guess is thatHybrid Columnar Compression<\/a>\u00a0is implemented using some of the in-block table\/row directory functionality with the compression unit header containing the number of blocks in the unit as well as pointers to which block(s) within the compression unit contain which fields.\u00a0 More to come on that topic in a future blog post :-)<\/p>\n

Tuesday night, I attended the Pythian Bloggers Meetup event and met fellow bloggers\u00a0Alex Gorbachev<\/a>,Markus Eisele<\/a>,\u00a0Robyn Sands<\/a>,\u00a0Arjen Visser<\/a>,\u00a0Fuad Arshad<\/a>,\u00a0Raimonds Simanovskis<\/a>,\u00a0V\u00edt \u0160pinka<\/a>, Steve Lemme, and many others.\u00a0 Unfortunately, I was unable to meet up with\u00a0Justin Kestelyn<\/a>,\u00a0Doug Burns<\/a>, and\u00a0Tim Bray<\/a>.\u00a0 After the meetup, a few of us went over to Chevy\u2019s and talked shop for awhile.<\/p>\n

Wednesday was similarly busy.\u00a0 Fortunately, before I left, I was able to meet long-time online friend and colleage\u00a0Jonathan Gennick<\/a>.\u00a0 Jonathan invited me to meet him at one of\u00a0Mogens N\u00f8rgaaard\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0Oracle Closed World sessions where I was also able to meet\u00a0Graham Wood<\/a>\u00a0and several other well-known Oracle\/OakTable guys.\u00a0 It was at OCW that I was able to watch one of the best, non-marketing-oriented Cloud Computing presentations given by\u00a0Jeremiah Wilton<\/a>.\u00a0 After the OCW session, I enqueued myself to see Larry\u2019s keynote which I enjoyed.<\/p>\n

All in all, I spent a great deal of time talking to some of the developers and technical guys at the Oracle database DEMOgrounds including\u00a0Stephan Haisley<\/a>,\u00a0Mark Williams<\/a>, Advanced Security developers, Advanced Compression developers, Optimizer guys, some of the BerkeleyDB guys, and several members of the Data Access group.\u00a0 While I primarily visited the Exadata exhibit hoping to meet up with\u00a0Kevin Closson<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Greg Rahn<\/a>, I was able to have a few great discussions regarding the architecture of Exadata as well as watch that machine perform an amazing amount of data processing in a very short amount of time.<\/p>\n

In short, OpenWorld was great!\u00a0 If you didn\u2019t attend, I would suggest that you buy access to\u00a0Oracle OpenWorld On Demand<\/a>, there\u2019s a ton of great content in there and it\u2019s definitely worth it.<\/p>\n

Lastly, I\u2019d like to thank Oracle for inviting me to speak and I hope to be back next year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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