CMIS is a classic example of what happens when a control-oriented interface is slapped onto an HTTP-based protocol instead of redesigning the interface to be data-oriented.

In the end, Fielding posits the following:

My bet is that the document repository vendors will continue to focus on making their own native HTTP interfaces more efficient, since that is how customers will evaluate their performance when integrated within heterogeneous architectures.

So I guess he's adopting a wait and see attitude like so many others.

I wonder what BEX and Craig have to say

UPDATE: Sam Ruby has a response here.

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Oracle hardware in the form of the O. Database Machine.
Larry announces the Oracle database machine. Yep, Oracle hardware.
The specs on the performance is HUGE! Aprox 30x performance benefit over similar storage. The X doesn't use traditional storage array. It balances storage service and incredibly fast interconnect.

LISTS for less than 14K per TB out the door. Much less than other vendors. More comparable to disk array prices.

Prediction: this kind of performance is not simply an efficiency enhancement, it opens the gateway to new, more intelligent, more responsive, more process/analytic/query intensive applications.

Please Join Me, Vince and Jean at the Oracle Open World Bookstore today at 2:30pm for a very special book signing. We are releasing our new book: Reshaping Your Business With Web 2.0 today.

If you can, come to our session about the book and its themes at Marriott Salon 05 at 1pm.

We Hope To See You There!

Keep refreshing for updates.

Intel President and CEO Paul S. Otellini has a theme of time.
The performance results around the Intel processors is pretty impressive. I'm not a processor guy but I'm sufficiently wowed. One thing that a guy like me does get into from Intel is their Mash Maker software. Check it out.

Now Up: TK. Theme: Putting Information to Work. Sharing. (playing nice with others and eating your vegetables to be covered next year)

Information Integration: tap heterogeneous sources, improve quality, manage relationships. How: Oracle Data Integrator (with Profiling), Hyperion Data Relationship Manager, Oracle BI.

(Lost wifi again - dang...)

The rest of the entry blogged in TextPad and posted later today.

On to Business Intelligence. Laundry list of features and capabilities.
BI desktop gadgets are cool. Viewing KPIs on my iPhone. Curiosity or Value Add?
BI Publisher, EE and Essbase is a nice analytics package. Add in UCM to store and manage BI Publisher reports and templates and you've got a keen match.

Now (drum roll....) Performance Management: New Product EPM Architect. Predictive Analytics is hip and cool. Crystal Ball allows scenario or gaming based outcomes that can then inform your budget and planning.
Annotations and Collaboration in the financial planning technology to "help during the closing process". Secure collaboration is cool. Annotations are important. They should be stored securely in an auditable management system.

(Lost wifi again! !@#*&^#)

The Gallup BI testimonial video was quite good. It provided some nice context and business cases that made the technology value proposition more "real".

Sharing information is also key.
Unstructured information storage: Oracle Universal Content Management
Overview of conversion technology, storage capabilities, digital image and video management, scan and capture, retention and records policy enforcement, and archiving.

Nice shout out to SES.

Great promo of Redstack Solution Packs (integration of FMW with Apps to content enable them).

Rick Schultz does a demo of the WebCenter, UCM, and Beehive working together. WebCenter is the central group area. Beehive is task oriented collaboration space. When docs are done being worked on, they're promoted to UCM. UCM manages all the unstructured information and surfaces it up through WebCenter, Portal, and WCM.

Information Sharing with people: Oracle WebCenter and Beehive.
TK promotes portals capability for participation, interaction, and communities.
Rick demos WebCenter and UCM again. This time he shows the WebCenter task and activity stream and how users can do all their tasks right from the WebCenter UI.
WebCenter doesn't just surface information from transactional systems (e.g. Siebel), it also allows workers to interact with those back office systems right from the context of WebCenter spaces.
When combined with UCM's capabilities for web and digital asset management a Siebel task informs web presence and is updated all from the same place. Folios capabilities are shown which makes collaborative content creation easy and managed.

Nice demo of tagging and linking of UCM content from within WebCenter.

Information security: Oracle Identity Management
As information becomes increasingly accessible, authorization and security is much more important.
OID has nicely integrated authentication and authorization capabilities.

off to the next thing...

The seminar was an opportunity for Oracle executives to brief the publishers of what is out, what is coming and what the opportunities for new books may be. Ultimately the publishers (and authors) figure out what they want to write. But the briefings were detailed and very informative. We heard presentations and briefings from Andy Mendelson, Steve Miranda, and others.

Overall there seem to be opportunities to write and educate and inform on:
-Using oracle in the cloud
-Compositing with SOA and BPM and Fusion Middleware
-Development tools
-Building Web 2.0 applications
-Enterprise Security
-Fusion Apps (yes, they're out and continuing to come out)
-Oracle Enterprise Manager and the new coolness in there

I have to give a shout out to Frank Buytendijk though. His presentation on Management Excellence was fantastic. The crux of the presentation was that operational excellence is expected these days. While we continue to push operational efficiency and while gains continue to be made on the operational side, there is substantial competitive and economic advantage to bringing intelligence and capability to management. If the pillars of operational excellence are Cost, Quality and Speed, then the pillars of Managerial excellence are Intelligence, Agility and Alignment.

Take a look at his book.

Since we're sitting in these sweet seats, I figured I'd better liveblog the event.
So here we go. Keep refreshing for updates.

Safra kicks things off with a yay-rah about how big OOW is. (it's big)
Larry's keynote is Wednesday. Michael Phelps will be here tomorrow morning.
Right now we're starting off with mayor Gavin Newsom. Yay rah San Fran.

Ed Begley Jr talks now. Yay green business. Yay recycling. Yay for public transportation. SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT. Be smart about what you're using. Don't waste. Business and the environment are not competitive endeavors, they are complementary.

James Carville and Mary Matalin are being introduced now by Safra. Conversational approach. Sitting in lounge chairs on stage. Lots of jokes and marriage tips.

Mary Matalin points out that in their combined years of experience they've never seen anything like this year in the ways people are so emotionally invested in one candidate or the other. From an information technology standpoint Mary points out that the campaign staffs are perpetually behind the 8-ball because they're always trying to pull things together every 4 years with teams of volunteers.

Mary talks about the "internal structural shift" of the polls. She suggests looking at polling aggregators rather than one poll or another. There is a fundamental shift in polling "internals" that is making this race look more and more like a conventional race. Toss up states are much more of toss ups than usually. Republicans are doing better than they should in core constituents.

"Democrats expected Sarah Palin's nomination to shake things up but not to the degree and extent that it has. ... No one expected to be where they are." -Matalin.

Mary Matalin is making the points that you control what you can. The political realm is rife with examples of how what you cannot control can wildy affect your outcomes. She suggests that the debates will not affect opinions unless someone really screws up. The internal structures will not change if both candidates are "just good". What will change the internals, what will affect outcomes is the way the the candidates respond to the unknown and demonstrate leadership. The way both candidates handled the financial bailouts was wrong. They both responded politically and the country wants not just "political" responses.

Mary's advice to both candidates is to stop being political and start (again) being yourself. People can smell through the politics.

Her introduction of Carville was fun.

Carville pokes some good fun at George Bush and Dan Quayle. "The clinton's are behind Obama and that's good because Hillary can get the woman's vote and Bill can get the other woman's vote"

Carville agrees with Matalin that this is not merely "historical" it absolutely outstanding. "History is being made right in front of us." A senator will be president (the last one was JFK). We will either elect an African American or someone over 70 (neither been done before).

Carville thinks that the debates will matter this year. The debate on friday which is supposed to focus on foreign policy will be dominated by the news cycle. Whatever is dominating the news cycle (even domestic economy items) will be the issue of focus.

By and large, the big news of the election will be a generational divide like we have never seen before. "I think that, in the end, if you look at the polls, the big thing is, in what numbers will the young people turn out?" If they turn out in the numbers I think they will this will change the face of american politics. 18-29 year olds typically carry about 12-14%. Carville thinks that they can run as high as 60% this year. There is an enormous generational gap in this country. How that plays in the election will determine the election.

Carville and Matalin take questions now.
Question 1: does it really matter who we vote for when the Wash lobbyists will end up buying whatever they want from whomever wins?
Answer: Matalin - like anything there are good lobbyists and bad lobbyists. Influence buying is bad. Issue education and requests are really proxies for you and your issues. The government is set up to allow the people to petition the government. Anyone. What is bad is not that lobbyists are there but rather the lack of transparency. Carville - if you want career advice, become a banking lobbyist. They will be crawling all over washington.

Question 2:as two people who live and breathe media, what do you think of the job John Stewart and Steven Colbert are doing on Comedy Central?
Answer: Matalin - the statistics show that upwards of 40% of folks get their info from comedy sources (Stewart, Colbert, South Park, SNL). Comedy sucks if there is not a touch of truth there. Why aren't more politicians doing that? Because they're not that clever. Carville - I love the Onion! Look at the numbers of people who are watching. They're not getting *all* their info from those sources. This election especially people are so very engaged it's amazing. Look at the numbers of people who tuned in to the Conventions - largest ever in history. The new paradigm is the information flow and cycle.

Question 3:Has the media become so blatently liberal that it's not helping the people.
Answer: Matalin - it's the paradox of the information age. Columbia University has studied and analyzed the media production and there is definitely a herd or pack mentality. The issue is that the amount of sources out there allows us to all go to where we want to go to validate our own assumptions. There are more sources of information but less variety. Carville - it's true, most journalists are liberal. As women get higher education. 75% of women with post graduate degrees are democrats. Matalin - The liberal bent started with Watergate. It's a 40 year trend. It's not due to more women in journalism. More and more people believe that the press are advocating not reporting.

Question 4: If Obama can't flip the south and if he's in Ohio how can he win?
Answer: Matalin - well... yeah, you're right. The south was key for Clinton. Obama has to flip some of the south states. Carville - in the 28 states where you have to register in a party (so they're they only ones we know) there are 2.2 million more registered democrats than republicans. That number should increase. Combine that with momentum and you should win. McCain's voting base are whites who are over 50. They vote. The under 30's (whites and non whites) typically don't vote in large numbers.

Question 5: Are we going to go to bed on election night knowing who the next president is?
Answer: Matalin - Oh Lord have mercy. I hope so. Carville - I think we're going to know on election night but I could be wrong.

battery died. sad... heading to the blogger meetup.

Video Postcards from the FMW lounge are there too...