Virtual Identity Dialogue

Saw this post today from one of our partners speaking on Oracle's "Green" initiatives from an employee perspective.

First - let me say I'm not a tree-hugging environmentalist. I am clearly in the Lombard school of environmentalism (meaning - the threat of Global Warming is overblown, there are much bigger problems and fear-mongering of the type Gore has used in his movie hurts more than helps - in particular the actual science that is going on).

That being said - one of the interesting things we're doing at OOW 2007 this year is at least for the Oracle booth's -we are moving to electronic delivery of our collateral materials. This is a good thing on a number of fronts. Sure it does mean less printing which is good from an environmental perspective (at the very least we cut down on the amount of trash that can pile up in places) but there are other benefits that I think that are even better. It also means less things to carry around the conference (and potentially lose).

This means that we can actually provide more material instead of having to pick and choose based on physical space. For example - I am now able to make sure customer's get our Enterprise User Security Use Case guide instead of just the EUS datasheet. That is something that just wouldn't be practical otherwise.

So if you are visiting Oracle booth's - make sure to get your badge scanned. This will insure that you get the proper materials sent to you (via a link in an email).

Hopefully we'll be able to do something similar for other conferences.