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Woke up bright and early here in San Francisco. 4:00 am to be exact. The jet leg is working as expected. The flight was a bumpy ride, other then 10 minutes of feeling like I was on a ride at the amusement park, it wasn’t bad. Watched Iron Man on the flight. Anyhow, to OpenWorld stuff. Went to 3 sessions today. 1st session was on Oracle Fusion Middleware by speaker George Trujillo. Very good session that was cut short because of time. Even though I am an Oracle Lite developer, I am also a J2EE developer and I can see SOA playing a bigger part in my career path. So, this was a very good session for tying into SOA and BPEL. Second session was one that I stumbled across and it was on XMLDB by Marco Gralike from AMIS. This could be a technology that I can see growing, but at this time, I can’t see me using it in the near future. The last session this afternoon was by the popular Tom Kyte from Ask Tom. The session was on effective schema design. You think you know stuff, and then you spend a hour with Tom and you realize, you don’t know enough. Great presentation!

Last session today is with James Carville and Mary Matalin. I have seen them on CNN and know they are political analysts, but am not too familiar with them.

If I am not too sleepy tonight, I will check out the kick-off session at 7:30, which translates to 12:30 am Atlantic time.