Java Champions & JUG Leaders Meet Oracle User Group leaders at Oracle Open World 2009 -- Sun Oct 11th

Several JUG Leaders and Java Champions checked out Oracle Open World. Sunday activities were centered around events and presentations run by the various Oracle User Groups. JUG Leaders and Champions: met up with the Sun Community Program Mgr and Coordinator at check-in; attended an oracle user group session; checked-out the Hands-On Labs at Oracle Develop (Hilton); attended the Sunday Kick-Off Keynote; and, met up with the Oracle User Group Leaders (i.e. www.odtug.com) in the evening for an impromptu social mixer at the Marriott. JUG and OUG leaders had lots to talk about. Discussions centered around Java Technology, Java EE, JDeveloper, NetBeans, Eclipse, Garbage Collection, and Community building tools/websites. Blogs: Cay Horstmann "Day 0", and "Day 1" (and made some excellent observations); Bert Ertman: "Is Oracle Good For Java?"; Michael Van Riper's tweets; Abdel Remani (CSU Chico) student JUG leader's blog: Oracle/Sun Merger: A Community Prospective... (Abdel also appeared in the OOW daily newspaper). Photo slideshow:

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