First Day in Birmingham

Yesterday was the first day of the UK Oracle User group conference in Birmingham – my home town.  The best presentation I attended was by Sten Vesterli entitled “What’s Hot and What’s Not – an Overview of Oracle Development Tools”.  This gave a very realistic assessment of the options open to Oracle developers when choosing a development tool.  He also pointed out something that we all need to remember – Use the right tool for the job.  This was a theme that was later reinforced by Tom Kyte in his outstanding keynote on “The best way …” who made a strong case for understanding multiple IT languages to have access to the right tools, observing that understanding multiple languages allows you to have access to different ways of thinking.  Today I have a presentation around choosing the right Fusion Middleware component for the job.  Unfortunately I am up against Mike Lehman so I suspect my attendance will be low.

If you are at the UKOUG stop by my presentation tomorrow (Wednesday) on using a SOA maturity model to drive project selection.