Quest Q and A Spring 2010 : Page 19
oracle wanted java; it’s the backbone to their next generation applications. oracle has bet heavily on java – it’s taught in school, there’s a vast pool of well-trained but realistic-salary-expecting developers, and these skills are transferrable. they’re not proprietary like oracle forms or peoplesoft tools. oracle wants to ensure java does not go off at a tangent, and they unveiled plans to work on the mobile versions of java which have already started to move that way, with a slightly different version for each device. they intend to move to a write-once, deploy-many concept, which was very well received. “Oracle has a proven track record in supporting open standards.” the area that had most press was mysQl. since it’s open source, many people – and especially the european commission – were worried the healthy competition between mysQl and oracle database would be eroded. I am the deputy chair of the ukouG, and our chair, ronan miles, along with Ian abramson of IouG, travelled to brussels to address the european commission. miles said, “oracle has a proven track record in supporting open standards.” (you can read their input at http://www.ukoug.org/news/ show_news.jsp?id=12606.) true to their word, oracle announced improvements for mysQl and that it would remain a separate Global business unit. oracle did a great job talking about what specific products would move into existing oracle portfolios, like sun role manager, analytics for your security moving into the oracle security family and the records software sun master Index joining the master data management suite. as they said, oracle had a nine month delay, waiting for approval – they used the time to plan. as soon as they got the go ahead, the oracle machine set rolling – it resulted in a great, thorough and in-depth update of what they will do with sun. with every acquisition, the acquired customers are understandably nervous, and with each acquisition oracle has proven they can improve on customer satisfaction. this is why Quest and all other user groups believe the acquisition is good for both existing and new customers, and why we backed the acquisition. a successful oracle is good for user group members, and so whatever oracle product you use, you will benefit from another successful acquisition. your user group will help ensure that happens. when larry ellison held his amusing Q&a at the end of the day, heli helskyaho, president of the finish user Group and the joint spokesperson for the emea oracle user Group community, stood up and said, “we as user groups made the decision to support you on sun. please don’t let us down.” Hear the Oracle Sun presentations: Charles Phillips: Welcome and Oracle + Sun: Transforming the Industry View the Webcast (43 min.) Download the presentation (PDF) John Fowler: Hardware Strategy View the Webcast (39 min.) Download the presentation (PDF) Thomas Kurian: Software Strategy View the Webcast (48 min.) Download the presentation (PDF) Edward Screven: Operating Systems and Virtualization View the Webcast (19 min.) Download the presentation (PDF) Juergen Rottler: Customer Service and Support Strategy View the Webcast (23 min.) Download the presentation (PDF) Jeff Epstein: Operational Strategy View the Webcast (8 min.) Download the presentation (PDF) Larry Ellison: Oracle + Sun View the Webcast (59 min.) Download the presentation (PDF) 19
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