Comments on: Suggest a Session Topic for OpenWorld

By: Session proposal for OOW - Using Ruby on Rails with Oracle E-Business Suite « ray_apps_blog

Sun, 04 May 2008 15:29:14 +0000

[...] rails, ruby — Raimonds Simanovskis @ 5:28 pm mix.oracle.com team created opportunity to suggest and vote for sessions at Oracle OpenWorld conference. Therefore I will also try this opportunity and will suggest topic [...]

By: carlback

carlback — Sun, 04 May 2008 00:05:42 +0000

@Dan @Jake We are investigating APEX as a cloud/hosted/SaaS solution. Take a look at this http://carlback.blogspot.com/2008/04/apex-as.html and we really want feedback of what people would like in that type of service offering.

People are also using APEX currently in the amazon cloud environment and within companies , including Oracle , APEX is being used as a hosted development environment very successfully N number of workspaces plus N number of applications makes alot of sense to alot of people.

By: Jake

Jake — Sat, 03 May 2008 21:49:19 +0000

@Dan: I can't speak to the development tools and their initiatives. Carl Backstrom (http://carlback.blogspot.com/) or Tyler Muth (http://tylermuth.wordpress.com/) might know about APEX.

I suppose you could look at cloud computing as Intertubes client/server. The processing happens all on the cloud side and the install is only a browser.

Cloud computing does allow you as a consumer to pay for exactly what you use, which makes it more affordable.

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 03 May 2008 09:41:38 +0000

What is this “cloud computing” I have hearing about for a while now and is Oracle application development tools (forms, reports, apex, jdeveloper, etc) doing something with this? Seems like SOAP is “too thick and cumbersome” and cloud computing's REST protocol is more “lightweight, secure and easier to implement”. Sounds like client/server is coming back…well, maybe an “internet version” of client/server.

By: Jake

Jake — Sat, 03 May 2008 02:23:20 +0000

@OE: Never fear, Lewis C has already added some pure database topics for your voting pleasure. Whew.

By: Jake

Jake — Sat, 03 May 2008 01:24:01 +0000

@OE: No need to worry, there will be plenty of database sessions The promotion done for OOW is diversifying Mix quite a bit, so I think we should get a nice variety of suggestions. Participation is a hurdle though. I guess we'll see over the next few weeks.

@David: Spot on, this year's OOW will have that flavor from attendees, e.g. where can we get advice, what's Oracle doing, etc.

By: davidhaimes

davidhaimes — Sat, 03 May 2008 00:05:38 +0000

@ontarioemperor

I don't think the vote will be too skewed, I suspect most people on mix are like you and have an interest in 2.0 but have a primary focus in a different area (such as databse, Apps, etc). The whole 2.0 in the enterprise, I want to use 2.0 tools and concepts as a tool to help me do my job better, if a tool can't do that it will never last and it'll go the same way as all the dot com craziness that I still remember clearly, but based on some valuations, wall street might not.

By: ontarioemperor

ontarioemperor — Fri, 02 May 2008 23:53:10 +0000

I'm divided. Personally I'm obviously in favor of 2.0/social sessions, but when I receive my paycheck from my employer, my attention is miraculously concentrated on database issues. I'm trying to brainstorm some ideas for the latter.

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 02 May 2008 23:40:32 +0000

@Marius: We can point to that FAQ, just let me know where to seed the link.

@OE: You're just mad we don't push to FriendFeed although we could using RSS. Luckily this isn't the only way to suggest a session. Besides, I think OOW could use more sessions on 2.0 and social stuff. Don't you?

By: ontarioemperor

ontarioemperor — Fri, 02 May 2008 23:17:56 +0000

Just a mere musing, but I wonder if the use of Mix as the vote tally mechanism will skew the voting a bit. The people who participate in Mix are more inclined toward social media, and may be more likely to vote for those types of topics. I suspect that if votes had to be submitted in XML format, a different set of sessions would be prioritized.

Actually, this is a good idea, and we welcome the chance to participate (and I'm sure that Oracle welcomes the feedback also).

By: Marius Ciortea

Marius Ciortea — Fri, 02 May 2008 22:59:07 +0000

We add a FAQ for this program as well. Thanks for ENTP and Jake for getting this done.
http://wiki.oracle.com/page/Customer+Selected+S...