Due to other commitments, I only made it to 2 presentations today…
Executive Panel: Oracle and Open Source:
The session was a seeded question and answer session to highlight Oracles commitment to “Free” software downloads, Open Source and Open Standards. If you follow the subject areas, I guess you know the score. The standout points for me [...]
Update: I had to change the time slot…
I’ve signed up to do an Unconference session on Wednesday 10:00 in Overlook C. The session is called, “Virtualization: What is it and why should you care?”
It will be about 30 minutes presentation, then a discussion. It’s an overview session and not product-specific. Hopefully it will [...]
I’ve found out what the big announcement at Oracle OpenWorld is. They’ve built in support for the Wiimote!
Keep it under your hat…
Tim…
Today was the Oracle ACE Directors meeting from 10:00-16:00.
Database:
As far as the database was concerned, I was hoping we would get a sneak preview of the much hailed “Big Announcement” planned for Larry Ellison’s keynote speech on Wednesday. Unfortunately all attempts to draw something out of Mark Townsend resulted in phrases like, “Wait until Wednesday!”
This [...]
Actually I do know when I will be back, but I wanted to carry on with the line from the song.
Just thought I would write to say article production and forum duties will probably be very limited over the next couple of months as I’m doing a bunch of conferences. Sorry if this [...]
Sun have announced their revolutionary new product xVM. It’s an open source Xen derivative that installs on bare-metal.
Wait a minute… That sounds remarkably like what Oracle did with Oracle VM, which was released about a year ago…
So now we have four big players wanting a share of the market:
VMware ESX (ESXi) Server - A proprietory, [...]
Today has been a bit of a rare day…
I hurt my back last night at Karate. I managed to get in on a cancellation at my osteopath, so off I went this morning to get everything straightened out.
I left the osteopath just in time to get to the Prometric test center down the road to [...]
I passed the Oracle Database 11g: New Features for Administrators (1Z0-050) exam today. It’s a bit of a relief because I feel like I’ve been preparing for this exam for a year. My first OCP revision article was written about 1 year ago, when I was hoping to be ready for the beta exam. Unfortunately, all the [...]
It looks like those possible VMware ESX articles I mentioned yesterday are now on the VIOPS site.
10g RAC on RHEL4 using ESX Server and NFS
11g RAC on RHEL5 using ESX Server and NFS
If you’re interested in the enterprise VMware kit it’s worth taking a look at the site. New stuff is being added all [...]
I realize I’ve been a little quiet of late, but life has been really busy and something had to give…
Flights for my conference dates are now sorted. Big thanks to Victoria, LaShon and Sylia. I better get on the case and book my hotels. The plan is:
Birmingham > Frankfurt > San Francisco > Auckland > [...]