OK, I know last week I promised you a program featuring Oracle ACE Directors Mike van Alst (IT-Eye) and Jordan Braunstein (TUSC) and The Definitive Guide to SOA: Oracle Service Bus author Jeff Davies. But things happen.

In this case, what happened was Collaborate 10 in Las Vegas. Prior to the event I asked Oracle ACE Director and OAUG board member Floyd Teter to see if he could round up a couple of people at the event for an impromtu interview over Skype (I was here in Cleveland) to get their impressions of the event.

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Floyd, armed with his brand new iPad, went above and beyond the call of duty. At the appointed hour, which turned out to be about hour after the close of Collaborate 10,  Floyd had gathered nine other people to join him in a meeting room somewhere in the Mandalay Bay Convention Center.

Here’s the entire roster:

1. Floyd Teter - Project Manager at Jet Propulsion Lab, OAUG Board
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2. Mark Rittman - EMEA Technical Director and Co-Founder, Rittman Mead,  ODTUG Board
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3. Chet Justice - OBI Consultant at BI Wizards
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4. Elke Phelps - Oracle Applications DBA at Humana, OAUG SIG Chair
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5. Paul Jackson - Oracle Applications DBA at Humana
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6. Srini Chavali - Enterprise Database & Tools Leader at Cummins, Inc
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7. Dave Ferguson – President, Oracle Applications Users Group
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8. John King - Owner, King Training Resources
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9. Gavyn Whyte - Project Portfolio Manager at iFactory Consulting
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10. John Nicholson - Channels & Alliances at Greenlight Technologies
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Big thanks to Floyd for assembling the panelists and handling the on-scene MC/hosting duties. 

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On a technical note, this discussion was conducted over Skype, using Floyd’s iPad, placed in the middle of the table.  During the call the audio was fantastic – the iPad did a remarkable job.

Sadly, the Technology Gods were not smiling on me that day. The audio set-up that I tested successfully before the call failed to deliver when we first connected – I could hear the folks in Vegas, but they couldn’t hear me. A frantic, last-minute adjustment appeared to have fixed that problem, and the audio in my headphones from both sides of the conversation was loud and clear.  It wasn’t until I listened to the playback that I realized that something was wrong. So the audio for Vegas side of the discussion has about the same fidelity as a cell phone. It’s listenable, but disappointing when compared to what it sounded like during the discussion.

Still, this was a one shot deal, and the roster of panelists and the resulting conversation was too good and too much fun to scrap just because of an unfortunate technical glitch.  

Part 2 of this Collaborate 10 Wrap-Up will run next week. After that, it’s back on track with the previously scheduled program.

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