Tuesday was sort of a pre-day for GlueCon. I flew out a day early both to try beating jet lag and to learn a bit more from the conference than I otherwise might. Travel Fun I flew on Southwest because, well, it’s cheaper. And I got what I paid for. The flight into Midway was [...]
Yesterday, Scott and I went up to Charm City to sit in on tutorial day of RailsConf 2011. It was a good enough day. As I don’t know Rails — at all — I went to the Rails for Idiots track. Otherwise known as Rails For Zombies and a live review of the Ruby on [...]
Today, I flew up to Boston and spoke at the Gilbane Boston conference. It was a long day, full of way more planes and taxis than I would like in eight hours and I learned several things today; some good, some not so good, but lessons none the less. Apparently, This Was An Off Year [...]
As this is being published, I am probably on stage at Gilbane Boston, participating in the Applications Of Search In Sharepoint panel discussion. Which is interesting, as I am not a SharePoint person. I do know data, though, so I’m talking using federated queries to search both structured and unstructured data. In a departure from [...]
Now that both Hadoop World and Open World are done, let’s compare and contrast: Cost To Go $300 $1800 and that’s early bird Location NYC, NY San Francisco, CA Number Of Attendees 900 41,000 % of women 5%. At most 30-40% Laptop Use During Talks 33% 10% Typical Dress Jeans & Company / Logo Polo [...]
Today was Hadoop World 2010 in NYC. Put together by the good folk at Cloudera, this conference was a long day focusing on big data, analytics and the Hadoop ecosystem. All in all, this was a good conference. Hadoop and I were decent friends before today, with me being pretty good on how it could [...]
Oracle releases their recap of the last five years of Open World highlights. Strangely, they left Beehive off. Sorry guys, I was there; you were pushing it pretty hard. That it didn’t work out doesn’t excuse airbrushing away that little speck of unfortunately history…
Sorry for the delay in this post; I was a big jetlagged this morning from a late flight into IAD. Anyhoo…
I spent some time on Monday and Tuesday wandering through the exhibition floors of Oracle’s OpenWorld. From that, I can safely make two conclusions: 1) Oracle has largely sucked the oxygen out for most companies trying to create database bolt-ons. 2) Oracle’s applications (eBusiness, Hyperion, JD Edwards, etc.) have significant issues. Let’s start with the [...]
If you were to go on the exhibition floor of Oracle’s Open World this year, you might think that everyone was giving away an iPad. That’s because lots of them are: specifically, 55 vendors are giving away at least one iPad and 10 more are giving away various other Apple products (Nanoes, iTouches). I saw [...]
In what I believe to be one of the biggest announcements from Oracle’s Open World this year, Oracle has announced they will be forking Linux into their own kernel. Called the Unbreakable Linux Kernel, Oracle’s intention is to “speed up the deployment of enhancements into Linux”. Read here, the deployment of enhancements to Linux that [...]
At his Sunday night keynote, Larry Ellison announced a new software/hardware package from Oracle called Exalogic. Basically an appliance intended to address enterprise class web deployments as a forklift install (and for only about a million bucks list price), the Exalogic is the next step to the Exadata platform. Oracle wants to claim this as [...]
Today was the first day of Oracle OpenWorld 2010. A good day, all in all. Recap after the jump…
I’ll be at Oracle OpenWorld for the nest five days or so. I’ll try to do nightly updates of salient points and items learned during the day. You can also follow my real time reactions on Twitter.
After one day at NoSQL East, I believe I can do a quick compare & contrast with OpenWorld. Cost To Go $600 $2500 Location Atlanta GA San Francisco CA Number of Attendees 125 40,000 Laptop % in use during talks ~95% ~10% Typical dress T-shirt & jeans Business Casual/Suits & no ties General Content Much [...]
It’s looking like October’s going to be a travel month. First, Oracle OpenWorld out in SF for a week, then to Atlanta for NoSQL. OpenWorld should be interesting; I’ve been a time or two before. Usually, they have a big thing to push (NetPC, 10g, 11g, etc.). I’m not sure as to what it’s going [...]
A while back, I submitted a topic to the CSI conference in DC. My topic was on DRM and ways of making it work, and it seems as if I wasn’t accepted for this go ’round (probably a good thing, as I’ve found a wealth of opposition papers pointing out a number of flaws in [...]
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