Oracle Rant

It was absolutely packed. Over 40,000 people at the Orlando Convention Center. The keynote was Bob Muglia who is Sr VP at Microsoft in the Server and Tools division. They did a back to the future theme with Christopher Lloyd. It was pretty funny but I left early. I walked around to all the booths and got over 30+ TShirts. Yes, tons of swag. The Novell booth had the most gorgeous girl by far : ). Doubt she will read this hehe.

Oracle was there and Christian Shay did an Oracle ODP Tools for .NET presentation. I also got a chance to see a SQL Server clustering presentation. In 2005 they have some options that make it seem like Oracle. The VIP’s, private interconnects, shared storage etc that is similar to RAC. The presenter even said active / active. I thought, wow, they copied Oracle again. Well Active / Active has each node active but they run separate databases. It can just failover to the other node so it is not true RAC in the Oracle sense. Speaking of RAC, the product manager for RAC, Barb Lundhild, was out there. She will be there all week. What an awesome lady : ). I sat there and talked RAC with her for close to 45 minutes. I probably put her to sleep with all the RAC speak. Nontheless, I told her some things I would like to see changed. Afterall, who else to tell than the product manager. Is there anything you would like to see changed? If so, let me know and I’ll pass them on…

Well I need to get some sleep. I have many blog posts in the pipeline that I hope to get to shortly : ).