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It's now only a week! All the session abstracts and details at posted at this site: http://ioug.itconvergence.com/pls/apex/f?p=219:77:139866668583012::NO So if you are heading there, please make your personal schedule as the event will be packed with 4 keynotes and sessions in 6 || tracks along with the hands-on-lab. This year IBM is the Platinum vendor who will showcase their Optimised Warehouse Initiative i.e. how to run Oracle DW's very fast on the IBM hardware. While there will be a fair amount of focus on the Oracle HP Database Platform, each one has its own niche. If you are a 1 TB to say 25 TB customer and have standardised on a non-HP hardware platform, then you will look at the Optimised Warehouse Initiative (OWI) space. You will find all major H/W vendors such as Sun, IBM, HP etc shipping you a reference or tested configuration with Oracle instance ready for use in DW. Typically, if you have standardised on HP hardware or are pushing over 25 TB, then Oracle HP Databas...

Now we stand 4 weeks from the Summit, 4 keynotes, 50+ sessions, ~ 10 hands on Labs. Attend a Webcast on Wed Nov 5, 2008 to learn why you should attend the BIWA Summit. See details at http://OracleBIWA.org Learn about Oracle BI, Data Warehousing. Learn about Optimized Data Warehouse, Learn about Exadata (Oracle HP Database Platform) Still time to grap good flight deals, or the hotel near the Oracle Head Quarters. Spend 2 days at the conference, speand some time visiting San Francisco Downtown or the nearby beaches.