On Wednesday I attended Oracle’s free breakfast session: “Web 2.0 Technology Demo Session & Customer Case Study by Thiess.”
Thank you, Oracle!
In hindsight, I don’t think that I am a member of the target audience for this sort of presentation.
I’d hoped/expected to find out about things like AJAX/JSF2.0 and where JDeveloper/Netbeans/Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse 11g/… were going. I probably misread the announcement.
Nonetheless, I have to confess to sitting there thinking things like: “Surely everyone knows about Single Sign-On by now!” It is frustrating. I see a definite disconnect in the industry these days: on one hand, the actual technology and tools and techniques are improving quite dramatically. On the other hand, it seems to be getting harder and harder to actually get adoption of all the ‘good stuff.’
Maybe there is so much ‘good stuff’ around that it is overwhelming?
(It could also be just another example of the fact that I am getting ever older and grumpier…)
I found Theiss’ comment that they had actually bought into J. D. Edwards and had “sort of got Oracle by default” (paraphrasing) hilarious. Images of feet being shot went through my mind :-)
I’ve also written about all these vendor Mea Culpas before.
Tough crowd, eh!
Still, once again: thank you Oracle!
