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 grow" manner.
• Attendees propagating rumors about Fusion Apps being announced on Wednesday in Larry's keynote.
• Customers discussing how Oracle now leads CRM sales with CRM OnDemand before any other on-premise product.
• Dell confirmed to be selling SalesForce.com products in the SMB channel.
• EBS customers who have upgraded to 12.1 still having a tough time getting the new account and multi-org structures down right.  Many system integrators suggest that its best to do a reimplementation.
• PeopleSoft customers buzzing about the new 9.1 release.
• Oracle waiting for Sun deal to close to make next set of acquisition.  Charles Phillips tells partners, there's more to buy.
• The roving Rimini Street billboard is back!

Your POV.
We'll be roving around asking some questions during Open World.  If you get a chance, let us know:

• Which Oracle products do you use?
• What release of Oracle DB are you on? When will you migrate?
• Are you using Oracle BI Tools with non-Oracle data? or vice versa?
• Do you use RAC? Do you use RAC? Do you know about Exadata and would you consider it?
• When will you consider Fusion Apps?
• Is the delay in Fusion Apps, affecting your timing for software upgrades?
• Are recent maintenance price hikes having an impact?
• When do you plan to adopt Fusion Middleware?
• How much will Fusion cost you in reimplementations?

Feel free to post your comments here or send me an email at rwang0 at gmail dot com or r at softwareinsider dot org.