Oracle Open World 2010

Oracle is all about offering “Complete integrated stack” of IT infrastructure to its customers. After the Sun acquisition, this is the first OOW and the company showed the synergy of its wide range of products. Some of the highlights that caught my attention were…

• Larry talked a bit about Cloud Computing. In general Oracle agrees with Amazon on the Cloud Computing where the Platform provides the infrastructure to run Applications, Tools, Guest OS on Virtual Machine and Databases. In short, the could infrastructure must be a combination of Software and Hardware.
• Exadata database machine is a huge success. And the new announcement in this OOW is the Exalogic Elastic Application Machine. In general, Exadata is the Database machine and Exalogic the Application machine. Exalogic is optimized for the Java, Weblogic and several applications like PeopleSoft and JDE are optimized for this.
• Larry says that Oracle invests $4 billion on R&D that will also push the Fusions Middleware and Fusion Applications.
• Exadata Easy Patching – Announced by Larry, This brings in a great advantage for the customers where they just get a single patch file and it will take care of all the applications, OS, virtual machines, databases and middleware updates. In practice, this is brilliant. The fact that Oracle owns the complete Software + Hardware makes it possible to take this advantage.
• All the Fusion applications are engineered for …
  • Performance
  • Availability
  • Security
  • Management
• Tomas Kuruan talked in little more detail about the Cloud Computing. The definition of Cloud Computing translates to 2 important things.
  • Software Delivered as Service
  • Modern Data Center Architecture
• Getting rid of many small machienes and consolidating data center architecture. Deliver software applications over the network or web as a service.
• The Sun integration brings the advantage that Oracle can test the Storage, Servers, Applications, Middleware and databases all together. This gives the customer unprecedented advantage over other vendors.
• Hardware is consolidated and Software is optimized for Hardware.
• Complete Integrated Stack from Oracle means… (this is a bliss to IT departments. everything one one vendor)
  • Applications
  • Middleware
  • Database
  • Operating Systems
  • Virtual Machines
  • Servers
  • Storage
• In general, Oracle showed its commitment to Open Source offerings like Linux and MySQL. It showed a great product roadmap with increased spendings on the MySQL betterment and optimizations for MySQL on Windows.

This indeed is a great OOW and i am sure the future is a lot more exciting. Especially the fact that Oracle brings so much of value for the IT departments with Integrated  Hardware and Software approach.

Disclaimer : These are my personal views and does not correspond or transform to any of my current or my previous employers.