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  Marius Ciortea

  1 year ago

  We add a FAQ for this program as well. Thanks for ENTP and Jake for getting this done.
  http://wiki.oracle.com/page/Customer+Selected+S...
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  ontarioemperor

  1 year ago

  Just a mere musing, but I wonder if the use of Mix as the vote tally mechanism will skew the voting a bit. The people who participate in Mix are more inclined toward social media, and may be more likely to vote for those types of topics. I suspect that if votes had to be submitted in XML format, a different set of sessions would be prioritized. :)
  
  Actually, this is a good idea, and we welcome the chance to participate (and I'm sure that Oracle welcomes the feedback also).
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  Jake

  1 year ago

  @Marius: We can point to that FAQ, just let me know where to seed the link.
  
  @OE: You're just mad we don't push to FriendFeed :) although we could using RSS. Luckily this isn't the only way to suggest a session. Besides, I think OOW could use more sessions on 2.0 and social stuff. Don't you?
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  ontarioemperor

  1 year ago

  I'm divided. Personally I'm obviously in favor of 2.0/social sessions, but when I receive my paycheck from my employer, my attention is miraculously concentrated on database issues. I'm trying to brainstorm some ideas for the latter.
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  davidhaimes

  1 year ago

  @ontarioemperor
  
  I don't think the vote will be too skewed, I suspect most people on mix are like you and have an interest in 2.0 but have a primary focus in a different area (such as databse, Apps, etc). The whole 2.0 in the enterprise, I want to use 2.0 tools and concepts as a tool to help me do my job better, if a tool can't do that it will never last and it'll go the same way as all the dot com craziness that I still remember clearly, but based on some valuations, wall street might not.
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  Jake

  1 year ago

  @OE: No need to worry, there will be plenty of database sessions :) The promotion done for OOW is diversifying Mix quite a bit, so I think we should get a nice variety of suggestions. Participation is a hurdle though. I guess we'll see over the next few weeks.
  
  @David: Spot on, this year's OOW will have that flavor from attendees, e.g. where can we get advice, what's Oracle doing, etc.
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  Jake

  1 year ago

  @OE: Never fear, Lewis C has already added some pure database topics for your voting pleasure. Whew.
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  Dan

  1 year ago

  What is this "cloud computing" I have hearing about for a while now and is Oracle application development tools (forms, reports, apex, jdeveloper, etc) doing something with this? Seems like SOAP is "too thick and cumbersome" and cloud computing's REST protocol is more "lightweight, secure and easier to implement". Sounds like client/server is coming back...well, maybe an "internet version" of client/server.
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  Jake

  1 year ago

  @Dan: I can't speak to the development tools and their initiatives. Carl Backstrom (http://carlback.blogspot.com/) or Tyler Muth (http://tylermuth.wordpress.com/) might know about APEX.
  
  I suppose you could look at cloud computing as Intertubes client/server. The processing happens all on the cloud side and the install is only a browser.
  
  Cloud computing does allow you as a consumer to pay for exactly what you use, which makes it more affordable.
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  carlback

  1 year ago

  @Dan @Jake We are investigating APEX as a cloud/hosted/SaaS solution. Take a look at this http://carlback.blogspot.com/2008/04/apex-as.html and we really want feedback of what people would like in that type of service offering.
  
  People are also using APEX currently in the amazon cloud environment and within companies , including Oracle , APEX is being used as a hosted development environment very successfully N number of workspaces plus N number of applications makes alot of sense to alot of people.
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