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OOW Day 4: Dive in, Rock out – Oracle Party & Tomy Kyte’s 12 things on Oracle 12c

Well, this last day really was funny! We met some old friends (they will recognize themselves) and also Oracle guru Jonathan Lewis. We must confess Larry Ellison really has good friends. His America’s cup boat is really amazing (see picture(…)

OOW Day 3: Oracle database 12c features review

Today, we had the opportunity to follow several sessions concerning the upcoming Oracle Database 12c release. Like Apple, Oracle keeps the secret over Oracle Database 12c, but tends to deviate from the Silicon Valley secret culture. However, we can relay(…)

OOW Day 3: Playing with Oracle 12c – new features pluggable & multitenant database

For the third day at the OOW, we had the opportunity to “play” with the beta 2 of the upcoming Oracle database release “Oracle Database 12c”. This was a Hands-on-Lab session with about 60 participants with at each seat place(…)

OOW Day 2: Oracle Linux developements & news

This second day at the Oracle Open World is hotter than the previous one! Today, we focused on Oracle Linux. Oracle Linux roadmap, the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK) release 3 is coming in summer 2013. Oracle’s strategy consists of developing(…)

OOW Day 2: Enjoying Oracle’s Real World Performance show

I have had the pleasure to go the Real World Performance presentation with the famous Tom Kyte of the Ask Tom blog, Andrew Holdsworth, Head of Oracle’s Real World Performance Team, and Graham Wood, the legendary Oracle Database performance architect.

OOW Day 2: Oracle Database as a Service

Another day in the San Francisco Bay discovering the Oracle Cloud, but without clouds in the sky :=) Today I went to a session describing a customer case study on Oracle database cloud with Enterprise Manager Cloud 12c. Prior(…)

OOW Day 1: Oracle OEM Database Express 12c & Extreme Database Management

My second session today was about Oracle Extreme Database Management with the latest generation of database technology by Leng Leng Tan, Senior Vice President of Oracle Development. The new Oracle database 12c announced yesterday by Larry Ellison is fully integrated(…)

OOW Day 1: Oracle 12c – Data Guard new features

What a sunny day at the Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco, temperatures over 30 degrees Celsius … don’t be jealous ;=) What should I start speaking about? Oracle Entreprise Manager Cloud Control 12c? Oracle VM or Oracle Database 12c? Well,(…)

OOW Day 1: Upgrading to Oracle Cloud Control 12c

Today, we had the chance to attend interesting sessions under a perfect sunny Californian weather :-). The first one was about best practices for an upgrade to Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c. The session described the real case of a US(…)

Oracle OpenWorld 2012 – the world is not enough: Larry’s keynote on Oracle 12c, etc.

I am pretty sure you are wondering what Larry Ellison announced in his Oracle OpenWorld keynote, especially concerning Oracle 12c! In fact there were three major announcements, which I will cover in this posting. But first, let’s start with Fujitsu’s(…)