Oracle executives, including President Charles Phillips, EVP of Hardware Engineering John Fowler, EVP of Product Development Thomas Kurian, and Chief Financial Officer Jeff Epstein, addressed a standing-room-only audience at Oracle’s on-campus auditorium here on the western shore of the San Francisco Bay.
The press and media presentation was to last a full five hours. Oracle seemed to have no problem whatsoever filling up the time slot.
Because Oracle is now one of the world’s elite full-service information technology providers — the most prominent others being IBM and Hewlett-Packard — topics at the nearly daylong press event ran the gamut of IT: from SOA to storage, from chips to content management, and from portals to patch management.
Phillips, who made a different kind of news during the past several days through the public revelation that he had an extramarital affair for eight years, was the designated welcomer for media and analysts.
To his credit, he immediately diffused the issue about his embarrassing — and well-publicised — personal peccadillo by simply saying: “Welcome. Hopefully you all had a smoother week than I did.”
There was a lot of new information — if not pure news — for enterprise IT people brought to the stage by Fowler, Kurian, and Chief Corporate Architect Edward Screven.
Key points from the presentation:
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