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Oracle Open World Around The Corner...
Oracle Open World starts September 21st... That's just 2 months away! Woot! Goosebumps, I tell you.
The conference last year was a bit chaotic for me... when I'm presenting, I never feel like I have enough time... And with 60,000 attendees, it can get a little crazy. This year will probably be similar. I'm doing a variation on my introduction to integrating with Stellent talk, because it was one of the top ten talks at Collaborate 08 a few months back. Nice... The IOUG folks were kind enough to score a spot for me, and I'm gonna soup up the talk a bit. Andy and I will probably also giving an ECM business-strategy presentation that aligns with our upcoming book.
Then I can relax!
I haven't looked at too many of the other presentation yet, but the ones that won Jake's "pick a session" contest on Oracle Mix all look good. I'm glad to see that Dan Norris will be presenting on how to be an Oracle ACE... also, Lonneke Dikmans will be presenting a shootout between Oracle WebCenter and BEA Weblogic.
I'm sure that last one will be hyper political...
Its also good to see Eric Marcoux presenting on a comparison between Oracle Portal, Oracle WebCenter, and Stellent... its nice to see a Stellent presentation make the top 25. Although it will be tough to give a decent comparison of all 4 Oracle Portal Products PLUS Stellent in one talk... Good luck to Eric.
Your turn: are you going to Open World? If so, what would you like to see?
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I would love to go, right now it is still up in the air. I went with several others to the one last year and there was not as much Stellent related content as we would have liked. We WERE spoiled you know with Crescendo, so it was some culture shock to go and see the breadth of stuff from Oracle and to see something so important to us be reduced to reality. Anyway, I'd like to go again, it was very impressive, very informative, almost exhausting.
The note I will leave for others: I was pleased at the approachability of the former Stellent folks who hung out at the demo grounds. We got conversations in with Alan and Vijay. I can only imagine how busy those folks were so I was tickled to see them go through the effort to try to be available for people to talk to. If you can go then get there. And there is enough time between that and collaborate ’09 it won’t be just a repeat of info from Open World.
the demo pods are the place to be...
I second Jason's suggestion for hanging out near the Stellent demo pods. If you want a high concentration of Stellent folks, that's where to hang out... especially towards the end of the day. I think there were about 15-20 demos running, and at least 5 Stellent folks there all the time... as a result, it was kind of where people wound up to see who was doing what at the conference.
I really liked how IOUG Collaborate worked: Stellent had a conference-within-a-conference, and all talks were in the same 3 rooms. I wish Open World would do the same, but odds are against it.
Personally, if all you want is Stellent stuff, Collaborate 09 might be a better bet than Open World 08. However, if you'd also like info about the new BEA products and how they work with Stellent, and you'd like to learn more about what other products Oracle has, then Open World has more options.
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