It’s a Wrap…

Sitting in the SFO airport, waiting to board flight 668, and thought I would add some miscellaneous rambling from the conference.

I saw this and thought what a great idea, using the stairs for advertising.  Everyone takes the escalators so the ad is always visible.

I attended a session on TimesTen, an in-memory database ( way cool stuff but this is a rambling page), and noticed the room was above one of the exhibit areas.  This is what it looks like when they are taking things down.  Amazing what goes on to put something on this big.

After all of the sessions ended yesterday evening, they has a small party in the Yerba Buena gardens with a local band.  They played a number of cover songs and the lead singer is an employee of Oracle.  I guess this is the 4^th or 5^th year they have been doing this.  It was sponsored by Tsingtao so I had to have a couple,( beers :-). 

  

 I found out the group is The Five Hundreds and the lead is Tom Geck.


I know I posted how much I enjoyed riding BART from Berkeley to San Francisco and back every day for Oracle Open World conference and because the nice working folks at BART knew what enjoyment I was having, they gave me a parting gift..