Although this years event was huge, and as such a bit of a jumble at times, I enjoyed it very much.  I made many many new contacts this year, spontaneous hellos, introductions, business connections, and so on.
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There is a *LOT* of new stuff going on in the Oracle space, what with various new acquisitions, and no one person probably understands it all.

I’ll also say that I ran into an incredible number of new terms which I like to think of as reframing, or looking at things in a new way.  You might also call them buzzwords, so take your pick.  Some you may have heard before, some appear in a new context, and some are old and familiar.  At any rate go ahead,  mull over them and digest:

  • information fabric
  • information as a service
  • service oriented architecture
  • what’s the cookbook for doing that?
  • oracle by example
  • business process management – from order to cash
  • extreme transaction processing
  • data virtualization
  • coherence
  • data masking
  • it comes baked in or built in
  • moving from reactive to proactive
  • we can triage their problem
  • the democratic, approachable, modern leader
  • preintegrated
  • comprehensive
  • hot pluggable
  • go around the corner to find the treasure of an idea
  • drinking the open-source koolaid

So long Oracle OpenWorld, see you in 2008!!