Day 4 Special @ OOW'09 - Keynotes from Kris and Larry Ellison!
This afternoon at Oracle Open World, over 10000 people packed into the large hall at the Mascone North convention centre witnessed two very different kind of Keynotes
Kris, our CEO talked about the trends that will shape the future while Larry Ellison did a great sales job of selling his company's products. The contrast was very visible.
Kris talked about the need for simplification of IT systems at corporate and Larry talked about product support process, Kris talked about the need for adaptive architecture in organizations and Larry talked about how we can buy a quarter box or half box or full box of his database machine. Kris talked about IT led revolution and how they shape the future while Larry talked about the fusion applications which will be released in near future!
One was a clear thought leadership and another was pure salesmanship, both were key notes! Kris demonstrated beyond doubt why he has been chosen as one of the top 20 influential management thinkers and Larry was no short in demonstrating why he is one of the top billionaires..!
Surprise element was the entry of Arnold Schwarzenegger, the governor of California state who talked passionately about impact of IT on his own life and how he likes Hi-Tech or bio-tech or clean-tech or green-tech.... anything that is linked to technology..! He did no nonsense selling of his state of California and appealed earnestly to the audience not to go back and keep spending in California..! He was honest and straight in his selling...!
The comfort that was conveyed to the audience in the third part of Larry's key note was that the existing applications such as PeopleSoft or Siebel and the Fusion application which are the next generation applications can coexist. It looked people were relieved that they will not be forced to upgrade or migrate to Fusion when they are not ready or when they do not need.
Kris clearly emerged stronger and left his influence on 10,000 strong crowd through his content rich, well thought out deserving key note.
Kakal
Comments
This was the last day of the exhibition hall and we were busy at our booths to give our final best shot.
We did manage to have our booths busy till noon and as expected we did not have any crowd post noon, as it was the time for the most awaited event of the conference. It was the keynotes session from Kris and Larry!
What a wonderful experience it was listening to the two big leaders! The best part was Kris opening up the session with such a thoughtful note. Larry’s key notes was informative/educative on the new ORACLE products. Arnold’s entry was a surprise to everybody and the greater surprise was the way he addressed the crowd and how he appreciated IT in every part of his life.
We closed our shop in the evening with another eventful exhibition and great experience.
Posted by: Ashwini Begur Nadiger | November 4, 2009 3:28 PM