Much smaller than OOW. There are 14 sessions running in parallel. There are about 4 of these parallel tracks during the day. Robert G. Freeman Oracle ACE Ask me about on-site Oracle Training! RMAN, DBA, Tuning, you name it! Author: Oracle Database 11g RMAN Backup and Recovery (Oracle Press) - ON IT'S WAY SOON! OCP: Oracle Database 11g Administrator Certified Professional Study Guide (Sybex) Oracle Database 11g New Features (Oracle Press) Oracle Database 10g New Features (Oracle Press) Other various titles Blog: http://robertgfreeman.blogspot.com ----- Original Message ---- From: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx> To: robertgfreeman@xxxxxxxxx; "oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wed, November 4, 2009 11:58:20 AM Subject: Re: Slightly OT: SQL Server conference vs. Oracle conferences... How does it compare to OOW? If i recall correctly there is a big vendor effort behind the show. On 11/4/09, Robert Freeman <robertgfreeman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm in Seattle this week attending SQL Pass (anyone else in Oracle-L here?). > I'd liken SQL Pass, somewhat, to Collaborate though it is very database > specific. I'd say there are maybe 1500 to 2000 attending here (I've seen no > numbers, this is only a guess). Yes, I'm a man who is visiting a foreign > country. I wear my Oracle shirt proudly and got a few interesting looks in > the process yesterday. > > One thing I've noticed (thus far) is the maturity at this conference (and > fairly I've been one day only so far) is NOTHING like those at the bigger > Oracle conferences such as Collaborate, RMOUG or HOTSOS. The level and depth > of the speaking at the Oracle conferences is much better than what I've seen > here. I've yet to see a presentation that wows me as I have from the likes > of Tom Kyte, Tim Gorman, Cary Millsap and the like. There is a level of > maturity that is missing here I think, both in presentations, style and > content. Anyway, I fully recognize that my Oracle bigotry might be showing, > but I'm not all that impressed. Let's see how I feel at the end of the week. > > Just thought I'd share. > > Cheers! > > RF > > Robert G. Freeman > Oracle ACE > Ask me about on-site Oracle Training! RMAN, DBA, Tuning, you name it! > Author: > Oracle Database 11g RMAN Backup and Recovery (Oracle Press) - ON IT'S WAY > SOON! > OCP: Oracle Database 11g Administrator Certified Professional Study Guide > (Sybex) > Oracle Database 11g New Features (Oracle Press) > Oracle Database 10g New Features (Oracle Press) > Other various titles > Blog: http://robertgfreeman.blogspot.com > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- Sent from my mobile device Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.orawin.info -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l