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AMIS Query – Verslag van Oracle Open World 2009 – dinsdag 27 oktober (uitnodiging)
Oct 23rd
Vorige week was in San Francisco het hoogtepunt van het Oracle jaar: Oracle Open World 2009, de grootste IT conferentie ter wereld. Tijdens deze conferentie ontvouwde Oracle haar strategie en visie voor de komende periode, lieten product managers de nabije toekomst zien van bestaande en nieuwe producten, deelden honderden specialisten hun ervaringen en toonden leveranciers en Oracle engineers op de demo-grounds de nieuwste snufjes. Ca. 40.000 bezoekers waren aanwezig in het hart van San Francisco om zich vijf dagen lang te laten overvoeren met Oracle weetjes.
Als je er bij was vind je het misschien leuk nog eens herinneringen op te halen en ervaringen te bespreken. Als je er niet bij was ben je misschien geinteresseerd in de belangrijkste aankondigingen, de mooiste demo’s en wetenswaardigste feiten. Dat kan, aanstaande dinsdag op de AMIS Query – Verslag van Oracle Open World 2009. In deze (gratis) sessie doet de AMIS-delegatie naar OOW (Marco Gralike, Peter Ebell en Lucas Jellema) verslag van de conferentie. Je bent van harte welkom om daarbij aanwezig te zijn. Vanaf 17.30 serveren wij een diner, om 18.30 start de sessie die duurt tot pakweg 21.00 uur. Om je aan te melden, ga naar: registreren AMIS Query OOW 2009.
In deze sessie komen onder andere de volgende onderwerpen aan bod:
OOW 2009: James Gosling speaking at Oracle Open World
Oct 13th
James Gosling, the "father of Java", is the hero, the star, the god of many Java conferences such as JavaOne. I have seen the adoration and worship, as recently as four months ago at JavaOne 2009. Yesterday I witnessed a performance by James Gosling in a very different setting. At Oracle Open World (at least three times the size of JavaOne) he is seen by many as ‘just an interesting looking gray haired fellow in a T-Shirt and jeans’.
They are somewhat surprised that Ted Farrell, chief architect of Oracle middleware development technology, makes way for this old geezer. And some even leave the room – how interesting can his story be. After the session, I run into James on the escalators, wearing his jeans, T-Shirt and bagpack with laptop – just like 1000s of other attendants on this conference. Of course he is still recognized by many, but he is slightly out of the universe that revolves around him in a setting that has yet to get to know him and appreciate him. I can imagine that must be tough. Or a nice challenge, see how to win this audience over too. One way of doing that is of course by throwing gadgets into the audience – a favorite stunt of his – and he donated a few dozen Dukes this time.
Anyway, he did a good job of explaining to this developer audience what Sun was doing, what the scale is of Java activity around the world and across technology platforms. He fondly plugged NetBeans – standing next to guy who is responsible for Oracle JDeveloper as well as the extensive range of Oracle tooling for Eclipse – indicating how it has specializations in many different areas, JEE and also the other languages that run on the JVM. He stated that magic of Java is not in the programming language as such, but is in he JVM. In saying so he seemed to warmly embrace languages such as Ruby/Rails, Groovy/Grails, Scala, Pyhton, PHP and others that can run on the JVM- and integrate together in the JVM. Gosling at this point also plugged Kenai – a cloud based developer environment, a much advanced version of SourceForge.
