Oracle World Keynote

I'm here. What the hell. I might as well "live blog."

• Intro stuff - no amount of trance music will make a slideshow seem more interesting.
• Animated intro - A 3D rendering of a guy running through stacks of organized data and hardware. Eventually everything explodes. I'm not positive this is the message they mean to convey.
• Mark Hurd takes the stage. How is it possible he resigned in disgrace from HP and, three weeks later, is opening the Oracle keynote? It's against all that's right in the world.
• Mr. Hurd has introduced the Infosys CEO guy. He's talking about how awesome it is to outsource IT, HRO, etc to India. This is clearly a message intended for the CIOs in the audience, not the DBA flunkies.
• Infosys says that people and enterprises are all interconnected (and will become more-so). Their graph shows a funneling of this into some kinda "new paradigm." Good to see they have their finger on the pulse of the world.
• Now they're showing an anime slide. The character is wearing glasses with much HUD information in it. Evidently this represents "the future interconnected youth with information and shopping."
• They've now introduced a new dude. Ming Sei? A middle aged guy in a suit should not be introduced with grinding guitar riffs.
• He's making Twitter jokes. Yay.
• Now he's talking about how "the screen" (displays in general) are attention grabbing. He's illustrating his point with photos of many photos of people staring at screens.
• They're showing a video of the Interconnected Slater family. The theme is "everything is interconnected - or will be." They're calling it "Three Screen Convergence" meaning the small, medium and large screens.
• Wow. A recycled Harvey Shore George HW Bush joke. "Not gonna' do it. Wouldn't be prudent."
• Neat. He just gave an example of having a group of friends geographically separated virtually watching a football game together. NFL licensing would preclude this if any of them were in blackout areas.
• Turns out Infosys feels that with modern technology Enterprises finally have a way to directly hear feedback from their customers. He's introduced another dude to talk about this. Also introduced with generic guitar riffs. Also a bad idea.
• Infosys (iEngage) has a Social Media marketing platform designed to help customers live in the online world. Customer portals, social networking push/pull, issue tracking, etc. It amazes me to see all these platforms/solutions that Netscape had in the late 1990s. What was old is new again. Also, the music in their illustrative video makes me really badly want glow sticks, some ecstasy and a pacifier.

Gah. This is just an expensive product presentation from Infosys.