The biggest and greatest Oracle Open World ever! OOW13 my personal view

Oracle HQThis year Oracle Open World was different. It started the week prior to the show at Oracle Headquarter. Why was that? Oracle Technology Network invited Oracle ACE Directors from all over the world to attend a briefing prior to OOW13, from all the Product Management teams including Thomas Kurian, Executive Vice President of Product Development. That briefing was under a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) and that’s why all the tweets and communication during these 2 days was just about a few items that we were able to talk about.

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Oracle OpenWorld Is Only One Week Away

OOW13 Join MeWe’re less than one week away to one of the biggest events of the year. And it keeps getting bigger and bigger.

The key concept that Oracle is pushing at OpenWorld this year is “Simplifying IT is transforming enterprises around the world.” The concept might be sound overly ambitious but it creates the atmosphere that gets to the heart of what concerns IT Executives the most.
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Oracle and Salesforce.com a love story

Larry & Mark

We’re familiar with Oracle acquiring companies. We’ve heard so many over the last 5 years that we just read the press release and try to understand how that will impact our investment (if you’re a customer) or your business (if you’re a partner or work in the Oracle ecosystem).

June 2013 will be remembered as the biggest month for cloud partnerships in the history, probably short but good enough to bring “enemies” to “allies”.  It might sound too harsh the word enemy but let me take you a few years back and try to understand how this new partnership between these two giant companies can change your world.

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Redes sociales ayudando a los gobiernos

socialmedia-2Llego a mis manos, quizás a través de alguna red social, el “Manual para participar en las redes sociales” realizado por el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID) y el gobierno de Brasil.

Si bien, llamarlo manual suena un tanto pomposo, creo que es un buen comienzo para dar a conocer los cambios que se estan generando en el flujo de información y como los gobiernos pueden adaptarse a estos.

Pablo Valenti, uno de los autores del libro, enuncia 3 cambios que surgieron con el advenimiento de la Web 2.0 y las redes sociales:

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