More than 40 000 delegates gathered for the opening of Oracle OpenWorld 2009, at the Moscone Centre, in San Francisco, on Sunday.
The opening keynote, by Sun Microsystems chairman and co-founder Scott McNealy, kicked off the week, with a light-hearted look at engineers gone wild. It then switched to a more serious discussion on Sun's technological innovations.
McNealy described Sun as a products company that places considerable resources in research and development.
Following McNealy, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison spoke of Sun's innovations, and said the company's aim is to merge all the innovative technologies and tackle even larger problems by delivering revolutionary systems.
He also stressed Oracle's commitment to Sun customer technologies and open source software, and said Oracle had increased investment in both.
He added that Oracle is going to increase Sun's investment in MySQL, and that the company has a history of doing that with other open source acquisitions.
Ellison said Oracle is looking forward to competing with IBM in the systems business, and talked about a new advertisement that states: "Win $10 million if your database application does not run twice as fast on Sun hardware. IBM, you're welcome to enter."
According to Oracle, thought leadership, technology sneak previews, and new-product demonstrations will come together during the additional keynotes this week.
“Some of the biggest names in technology will reveal what's on the horizon in products and services. Developments geared toward bringing more efficiency, security, agility and sustainability to business will be covered by top Oracle executives and the company's partners.”
OpenWorld 2009 will feature over 1 900 varying sessions, ranging from industry-specific sessions, to applications and technologies. In addition, delegates can view 400 partner exhibits in the exhibition hall.
According to Oracle, OpenWorld 2009 provides: “A broad range of programming and products, services and industry sessions, [which] will help conference attendees get the most out of this year's conference.”
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