I agree with Jared. Also wanted to add that there was more openness, more confidence and less fluff (except for exadata imho!) If you are a EM GC site, expect much more than just db monitoring. John On 9/26/08, Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Ahbaid Gaffoor <ahbaid@xxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Indeed! >> >> I signed up for the free pass and live about an hr from SFO, I didn't >> attend, I just could not stand the marketing hype, yes there are a few >> excellent presentations, but Oracle Open World is becoming more marketing >> oriented. I've reduced myself to only attending if a new release was >> issued >> that year. I could not convince myself to go to SFO to hear and see the >> hype. >> >> > > There was actually a great deal of technical database content in many > sessions. > > Not so in the past, this year was different. > > -- > Jared Still > Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist > -- Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com John Kanagaraj <>< http://www.linkedin.com/in/johnkanagaraj http://jkanagaraj.wordpress.com (Sorry - not an Oracle blog!) ** The opinions and facts contained in this message are entirely mine and do not reflect those of my employer or customers ** -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l