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Here are some of my random thoughts about the OAUG event this year.

I found it interesting the Oracle significantly played down the Fusion Applications at this event. I was certainly expecting more focus on what it is and what it will do. The CRM versions have been announced but early versions of the other Fusion Application modules are being demonstrated privately. The use of embedded operational analytics within the applications has been discussed publicly and Oracle is delivering on that.

The winner of the OAUG trip to Las Vegas was an attendee from Japan. I wonder if they budgeted enough monies for her trip across the Pacific? They probably assumed it would be someone in the upper 48 states.

As noted in another post, AIA got a lot of sessions and attention by Oracle presenters. Someone in OAUG confirmed that this change in emphasis began in the last 60 days before OAUG. Based on my previous posts on this blog I’m feeling very aligned with Oracle this week.

The brief snow on Wednesday was nice. I was up on the 35th floor and got a nice view of the results as it settled in during the afternoon. It was gone quickly the next morning but the trees were beautiful on my drive in.

The OAUG sessions in the Wells Fargo Theatre were good, but it was painful to watch the speakers try to read the teleprompters which were located below the stage. I suggest they toss them for next year. The attempts at humor fell flat and every video shot showed the speakers looking down to determine what to do next. Kudo’s to Floyd Teter and Steve Romeo who managed to make it look the most natural.

I was pleasantly surprised with the attendance at my session. Since it was the last session period of the week and many attenders were already hoofing it to the airport I was expecting two or three in the audience. When over 30 people showed up I was re-energized. The session went well but I managed to leave my cellular USB stick in the room somewhere. I’m still depressed about that.

My tiny rental car for the week morphed into a dual-cab RAM pickup truck that required me using a handle to get up into the vehicle. The wind had been blowing out of the north when we arrived in Denver. It carried the strong scent of manure which stayed with the interior of the vehicle all week. Maneuvering “the beast” around town was a challenge. I never realized how narrow the lanes are on most streets and for a real test of courage try getting down one of those spiral drives in a parking garage. Once I figured out I had a whole 6 inches of clearance in the garage I was much more confident but I’ve never felt so claustrophobic in a vehicle.

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