After a two-hour delay at the airport due to heavy fog in San Francisco, we're now on the ground and ready for Larry Ellison's keynote Sunday afternoon. We went down to the Mascone Convention Center to pick up our registration and also to walk around and get an idea of how Oracle will be marketing the conference.
After walking around, the focus is clear: Oracle is a key component for every major company and its influence is only growing with its new engineered systems, namely the Exadata (database appliance) and Exalogic (Weblogic appliance). Oracle's purchase of Sun gave them a strong hardware stack to merge with their already dominant software platform, and references to Exa- products are everywhere. Many of the posters around the Moscone Convention Center have the Twitter hashtag #Exa - although a search of that phrase doesn't currently bring up much Oracle-centric information.
Oracle also has some compelling stats on their market penetration. While everyone's to hearing things like, "200 of the top 500 companies use product X," Oracle is upping the ante with signs stating that, "20 out of 20 of the top
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