Oracle OpenWorld

From Oracle FAQ

Oracle OpenWorld (OOW) is an annual Oracle conference event for business decision-makers, IT management, and line of business end users. It is held in major cities around the world, with its main conference being held in the USA (normally close to Oracle's HQ).

Contents 1 The 2008 conference 1.1 Major announcements 2 The 2007 conference 2.1 Major announcements 2.2 Also see 3 The 2006 conference 4 The 2005 conference 5 History 6 External links

The 2008 conference

The Oracle OpenWorld 2008 conference was held from 21 to 25 September in the Moscone Centre, San Francisco, California, USA.

Major announcements

• The Exadata storage and database machine
• New collaboration tool called Oracle Beehive
• RMAN can backup to cloud storage
• Availability of the first patch set for Oracle 11g, 11.1.0.7
• Oracle Forms can be converted to APEX

The 2007 conference

The 2007 OpenWorld Conference was held in the Moscone Center, San Fransisco from November 11-15, 2007.

The 2007 conference, for the first time, featured an unconference. An unconference is a conference organized, structured and led by the people attending it. Instead of passive listening, all attendees are encouraged to present and ask questions.

Major announcements

• Oracle VM - virtualization software similar to VMWare
• Optimzed Warehouse for SUN - warehouse in a box (Oracle Enterprise Edition + Partitioning + RAC) - sized for 10TB of data
• Availability of the Oracle 11g database on most popular platforms, including Solaris, AIX and HP-UX
• Oracle Process Integration Packs (PIP) - integrations across Oracle ERP, CRM and industry applications
• Fusion Middleware 11g
• Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g beta

Also see

• Oracle OpenWorld 2007 Photos
• YouTube group openworld07

The 2006 conference

• October 22 - 26, 2006
• Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA USA
• Oracle OpenWorld 2006 Photos

Major Announcements

• Oracle Enterprise Linux

The 2005 conference

• September 17 - 22, 2005
• Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA USA
• Oracle OpenWorld 2005 Photos

History

Almost 500 Oracle users gathered in San Francisco in 1986 for the first International Oracle Users Week (IOUW) conference. IOUW attendance continued to grow throughout the years. Oracle saw this as an opportunity to create even more marketing sessions to further increase growth. In 1996 Oracle announced that starting in 1997, it would take control of the user conference and call it Oracle OpenWorld.

External links

• Oracle OpenWorld Home Page
• Oracle Calendar of Events (this site)