SFist: Oracle Open World Chaos to Commence

Oracle

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:23:14 -0800

I’m attending OpenWorld for the second time. It’s actually a fun time, excellent technical information for my job and the vendor cocktail parties, lunches, dinners and entertainment are great. San Francisco is nice place and makes a ton of money off this event. Sure there is going to be some traffic but I would guess there is still traffic here with out us. You claim to have been called a fag twice but you don’t have any problem calling people dork, bitches and bastards, seems a little hypocritical. Instead of worrying about the traffic try helping out the multitude of homeless people here get off the streets. Just remember the next time your text’ing, watching HDTV, emailing or standing in front of the cash register at Bloomingdales its technology that makes it happen…

suckafree

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 10:47:54 -0800

ouch, you're right rincon. this guy is the king of all douches: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Ellison how embarrassing to work for a guy like that.

RinconHillSF

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 20:05:26 -0800

Sucka - I'd hardly count giving $100 million to charity by court order as Larry Ellison giving to charity. He did some Martha Stewart a la Immclone style trading on his own stock, it sounds like, and he got nailed in the process. The $100 million to charity doesn't appear to be voluntary on his part, according to that article. "The suit was settled in November in San Mateo Superior Court -- Ellison agreed to donate $100 million to charity and pay $22 million to lawyers out of his own pocket -- but the settlement is being appealed by a shareholder. "

fizzandpop

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 18:58:52 -0800

Wow I bet those booths are really interesting. Please save me some of those handouts. Do they have leftover whitepapers? This will be the most exciting thing to hit SF until those wild boys from the Medical Equipment Leasing Solutions show comes to town. Can't they do this in Modesto? If I can't get a table at Townhall because some enterprise solutions VP has the place booked, I'll start keying BMWs in Woodside again.

Brock Keeling

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:54:12 -0800

except for your mother, jess, of course. (sorry!)

Jess Drake

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:52:07 -0800

Thought*

Jess Drake

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:51:44 -0800

My mom manages many of the booths for this show :) Though I'd let you all know...

fizzandpop

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 16:06:13 -0800

I disagree. My cab driver the other night must have been about 140. He stopped at all the green lights on Pine. I think he was on the lookout for a Mexican navy press gang or some of those "Orientals who are building the railroad". I swear he was the guy who shot Mayor Washington Allon Bartlett. Agent 510: I could care less about the greater good of the city. It's all about me and my hatred of Sketchers worn as dress shoes.

wsanders

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 15:27:09 -0800

There are no 97 year old drivers in SF ready to go all Santa Barbara on us. They've all been run over.

suckafree

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 15:10:10 -0800

i'm no larry fanboy but he does give 100 million a year away. gotta say big ups to that: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/01/31/MNG62H06991.DTL

KatyG

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 15:00:14 -0800

We lawngilanders say that Billy Joel stopped being cool after ... well, shit, after he divorced Christy Brinkley I guess. He's just another rich jerk who built a house he never lived in and crashes into Suffolk's finest flora and fauna. As for our Oracle friends, well, I say we get a few clap-laden pros working around Moscone this year. Really give them something to remember San Francisco by...

KWillets

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:30:41 -0800

When will these anti-car fanatics cease their war against everything that is good and holy? If you can get into the keynote speech, you'll see enterprise-level douchiness when Larry Ellison speaks.

Brock Keeling

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:20:04 -0800

Agent510, i don't think i made myself clear, and for that i apologize. see: they're not upsetting a large group of people; they're upsetting ME. clearly, that's why they should stop the show immediately.

Agent510

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:14:16 -0800

Oh, for crying out loud. Imagine if the city made decisions this way. "Hey Oracle, it's great that your convention makes a lot of money for the city and all, but we think you guys are kind of dorky and tacky, and your bad musical taste is diluting our city's hipper-than-thou factor. So take Oracle Open World 2007 somewhere else, SUCKAS!"

fizzandpop

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:14:03 -0800

All it takes is a 97 year old driver to go barrelling through the baricades and into the tent to stop this thing coming back next year. Gentlemen, start your Oldsmobiles.

Akit

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:06:40 -0800

I used to go to these events because anyone can go into the exhibit hall for free if they register early enough. All I'd do is just get all the free crap they can give me, from nice shopping bags to flashlights.

wsanders

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 13:56:49 -0800

They did this last year. Yawn. BTW best way to get across Market after 3 PM: Take 7th all the way to Leavenworth. Don't even think about any lesser-numbered street. This applies even when nothing is going on at Moscone.

RinconHillSF

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 13:51:35 -0800

Does Larry Ellison donate any of his billions to the Glide Foundation's Thanksgiving Dinner? Hmmm.... he's too busy ordering boats that are specifically longer than Paul Allen's (Microsoft's co-founder) boats.

fizzandpop

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 13:48:52 -0800

Worse than dorks, database dorks. Personally I really hate the celebration of the mundane. Yes nothing would work without Oracle, but the world would collapse without bleach too, where's the big BleachFest 2007? Dorks, your place in the natural order of things is to toil away in the background making the lives of the golden gods like myself, that much easier. We don't want to see you, we don't need to know you exist. Get back below decks and keep shovelling coal into the boiler, you're standing in the way of the my moonlit view. Ooooh look, an iceberg. And Billy Joel is cool actually. He drives a 2CV whilst drunk. Ha, ha, midget Lenny Kravitz playing to a room full of sweaty database engineers. Lisa Bonnet just keeps sticking those pins in the voodoo doll, eh Lenny?

periqueblend

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 13:28:57 -0800

Am I reading this correctly? Did you expect a rash of comments about Billy Joel being cool? That would only happen in Long Island, 5 years ago. As for the other thing, I believe you said it best "So, if any of you bastards planned on driving to Bloomingdale's, the Metreon, the St. Regis, or Yerba Buena Gardens, you're out of luck."

mdw0526

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 13:23:35 -0800

Jesus Christ, relax about the conference. Why is it allowed to go on? Because it's huge, and great for the city. I work right nearby and last year, it wasn't that big of a deal. You shouldn't be driving down here anyway. Take the bus or take a cab.