Larry's keynote at OOW 2007
This year we got to listen to two keynotes from Larry Ellision, first one on Sunday and then on Wed. I had recently gotten a chance to learn about the history of Oracle in a talk titled "How Oracle Came to Rule the World" by Richard Neimeic at BIWA Summit, but it was great to listen from Larry himself as he describes how he put his house on stake to get Oracle going some 30 years ago. In today's keynote, Larry did a quick recap of the Linux support and then talked about Oracle VM. The part I liked most was the story of Sales Prospector and how data mining is the core of that product. Interestingly, Larry used the Amazon example to describe use of data mining in everyday life. I had used the same example on my Data Mining talk titled "Machine Learning about Human Learning" on Sunday at the BIWA SIG session. As Charlie Berger the Product Manager of Oracle Data Mining would say it, "it is moving up the maturity curve of BI." It is great that the first o...