A Software Insider's Point of View

Day 1 Brings 40,000 Oracle Faithful Into San Francisco For Red Stack Indoctrination

(Source: R Wang & Software Insider POV, Copyright © 2009  All rights reserved.)
Interesting tidbits from Day 1 include:

Oracle tells SaaS providers they can use a new SaaS/Cloud computing model to purchase a limited number of Oracle products in a “pay as you [...]

Oracle Gets More Serious About Meeting Partner Needs

(Source: R Wang & Software Insider POV, Copyright © 2009  All rights reserved.)
Oracle Open World kicked off today with major announcements that beef up the 21,000 member strong Oracle Partner program.   Throughout the day, Oracle executives kept reminding everyone that path to success would be specialization and [...]

(Photo: The “new” modern and spacious Bengaluru (BLR) airport.  Copyright © 2008 R Wang. All rights reserved.)

New airport symbolic of Bengaluru’s on-going transformation.

Arrival into Bangalore was quite a treat with mild 75 degree (25C) weather, less humidity, and a spanking new airport built by Zurich Airport, Siemens and India’s renown Larsen & Toubro for a [...]

(Photo: The “average” tree in the middle of a recently constructed Mumbai highway.  Copyright © 2008 R Wang. All rights reserved.)

Terrorist attacks impact business travellers but not locales and battle hardened road warriors

The trip to India was a tough decision to make.  After intense discussions with the family, I left for the airport just as [...]