Now that openworld 2010 has finished and a lot of the smoke has settled, here is what I think the main messages were, based on the wednesday keynote of Larry Ellison.
Introduction
Elastic Cloud
Exadata
Linux
Solaris
MySQL
FusionApps
Conclusion
Oracle offers a complete stack, iron up to the application and is able to make sure all components work very well together. The customers do no longer have to worry about integration issues but can buy the complete solution. A second observation is that Oracle is definately more of a tech company than an application company. Or maybe this is just Larry Ellison. The proportion of sessions focussed on application versus sessions focussed on middleware, database, operating system and hardware was a lot smaller. However this does not mean that Oracle will not be able to deliver a superb fusion application in a couple of years.
Later I will publish a timeline: My personal taken on when will Fusion be available and what functionality will be available when. I will also include thoughts on what this would mean for Oracle EnterpriseOne users today.
When searching through documents on metalink, it may be helpfull to use some special search criteria by using phrases that Oracle put in documents.
There is a very easy way to make sure EnterpriseOne users only see the menu options they should see, without using security (which is not recommended by Oracle anyway). The following step-by-step explanation takes you through the process of creating a user role, associating a user with this role and [...]
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