This has been a long day. It started with gathering some news about Enterprise Manager 12c and finished with a huge concert on Treasure Island. However, the highlight of the day was clearly Larry Ellison's Keynote. Since this afternoon (pacific time), Oracle is officially offering a public cloud integrating an Oracle social network!

In my second blog posting about OpenWorld, I wrote about the Engineered Solutions portfolio that just got enhanced with Exalytics. Today I'm going to focus a bit more on Oracle Database Appliance and how this new box works. I had the chance to go to a session called "New! Database Appliance: secrets revealed", which provided more information on its architecture and functionality. After that I went to a highly interesting use case by Dell on the brand new Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c for Cloud computing. But first let's have a look at the Database Appliance secrets...

So the first day of the Oracle OpenWorld 2011 is over. This introduction day was dedicated to Oracle Users, Oracle Partner Forums, and the Welcome Keynote. It already showed some interesting stuff and finished with a new announcement.