Wow....
I was standing for over 40 minutes just to get into the key not hall to listen to the key notes by two speakers; HP's EVP and Oracle's Larry. It's like, "What is he going to say or introduce that can shock the world as Steve Jobs always does at Mac World?"
I bet I was not the only one who had this thought. From the beginning, the temperate was shooting up and lights were going crazy. And then, everything started. Well, HP was a big sponsor and was very proud of their product lines and their position in the market place. I don't remember that much from there other than what sounded like only a sales pitch.
Larry Ellison followed with same kind of shirt, a black one. He was talking about the relationship and success with HP. And then he introduced two big products. One was built-in, off-the-shelf data center product which utilizes HP technology of blade servers and DB built-in. And they came X. eXaData Server which is priced at about $600,000. Larry was boasting about the performance of this server system which is as tall as he. He compared the server with most powerful servers in the market and proudly laughed at them.
If everything that he said is true, why not use it? Cheaper, faster, and bigger box? No brainer. One+ year of beta-testing with clients. Enough? I don't know. Numbers look good. Not sure whether they are truthful enough about what it is.
At least, they are trying pretty hard to be like Apple? ;-)
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