Oracle OpenWorld Convention Engulfs San Francisco

The New York Times (Oct 2 2011)

1. Commuters driving into this city on Monday morning will discover major downtown thoroughfares closed. More than 129,000 square feet of tents will have sprouted around the city’s convention center, where 4.25 miles of power cables, 300 miles of phone and Internet wires and enough beer trucks to sate 45,000 people are in place. Enlarge This Image Jim Wilson/The New York Times The Oracle OpenWorld convention last year in San Francisco. Related Bits Blog: Conventional Data From Oracle OpenWorld (October 2, 2011) This is not for a political convention or even this week’s introduction of the new iPhone. All this is for Oracle, a company that sells database management software. In a city of this size — 805,000 people — Oracle’s OpenWorld convention really takes over. The production, which runs through Thursday, requires a quarter-million cups of coffee and 14,700 hotel rooms, filling the ... (Read Full Article)

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