The Oracle Lite Blog

A few more busy days that I ended up going to less sessions, had more business lunches, and spoke to people about Oracle Lite. There is a lot of interesting things happening in the embedded space and Oracle Lite will be playing a role in that along with TimesTen and Berkley DB. I was given the opportunity to hand out a Oracle Lite case study at the Oracle Lite demo grounds, and for those of you that are interested, you can download the case study here.

Got some great swag from the exhibit halls and seen some great demos. Went to the Ace Dinner on Tuesday night at Le Char French Bistro and I highly recommend the Fillet of Beef.

Day 4 was more of the same and topped off by the appreciation event. This year it was held at Treasure Island. The headline acts were Seal, UB40, Alan Jackson, and Elvis Costello. My colleague is an Allen Jackson fan so we stuck with that show. It was a pretty good show, and for me to say that about country music takes a lot. To give you an idea of where my music tastes are, I currently have Metallica’s Death Magnetic CD playing in my car.

I also attending a focus group on BEA WebLogic developers moving towards JDeveloper. I was part of this focus group because I am a WebLogic developer as well. BEA developers really like the Eclipse IDE, and just to sell them on JDeveloper will be a hard task. But some of the things I have seen in the newest JDeveloper release should ease their minds. I haven’t downloaded the new product yet, but one of the things I had seen in the survey that I filled out was more focus on team development. They seem to be working on an internal IM client to JDeveloper and appealed to me because often times you have different developers choosing to use their own IM client and you end up having 4 different IMs running on your machine. This would really simplify that.

Unfortunately, my laptop doesn’t have an SD card reader and I forgot to bring my SD card reader from home, thus I can’t upload and photos or videos. When I get back home, I will upload and post them.

I get home on late Thursday night, spend a weekend with my family, and then head to Michigan for customer meetings next week. Now to pack for the 5 hour flight back to Toronto followed by a 2 hour flight back to New Brunswick. Looking forward to doing this again next year.