My Own Thoughts on OOW 2006
As you know Oracle OpenWorld 2006 has come and gone. This was my very first OOW
both as an employee and attendee. Well, actually it's hard to say I was
an "attendee" since I didn't manage to get to any sessions.
On one hand - that was disapointing because there were some sessions I would have liked to have gone to - on the other hand - it
made it easy to find me for OVD/directory questions :).
On the day of the closing keynote it was sort of weird because one minute I know
Larry's keynote is going on and the next, armored penguins are everywhere.
That was my clue we had announced
something with a Linux distro. Though it also marked my biggest
disapointment - because I really would have liked to have seen the on-stage march
of the penguins!
Anyway I think we had a reasonably good traffic for the OVD booth.
And we definitely got a clear
direction on what the next product we should integrate OVD with :).
I used a low-tech approach to scorekeep the most popular requests - it
was a 3x5 card. I kind of knew what people would probably ask about so
I really was just using the card to keep a counter. For new requests -
I developed Carpel-Tunnel in my thumb writing stuff to my Treo (though
the Treo turned out to be very effective way of keeping track of these kind of things).
And we really appreciate that feedback we got on our future directions with our directory products.
Finally a special thank you to those who came out and told me they
read my blog. That was very unexpected and very kindly recieved.
