Java Day 2012. Impressions
I want to tell you a little about Java Day , which happened on February 10. I’ll explain right away why I’m publishing so late - initially the idea was to compare Java Day with the Red Hat workshop (read in my next post ), but the events turned out to be so different that there was no point in writing “mixed up” about them. In fact, the post will be not so much a description of what happened there ( this has already been published ), but about the impressions that I have left.
I already visited Sun Tech Days before, but then the event was held “under the wing” of Sun, so, frankly, I went to see how much Oracle messed up. :-) Fortunately, I did not have to be very disappointed, although the influence of the new owner of Java was still very noticeable.
An event was held at the Holiday Inn Hotel. I don’t know why, but for some reason large corporations believe that hotels are very successful for their conferences. Personally, I don’t really like such places because of excessive pomp, but this is quite in the spirit of Oracle, so I'm not surprised. A bit corny, yes, but everything went without organizational overhead. In general, the event has less “drive” and corporate rigor (compared to what it was in the days of Sun Microsystems).
Long wandering around in search of a venue for Java Day 2012 was not necessary.
As I said, there were no “shoals" in the organizational plan - there were signs, everyone had enough space, there was no crush anywhere, they handed out the conference program (surprisingly, sometimes the organizers sometimes think that visitors do not need it) and fed them tasty sandwiches and coffee (this is also often forgotten, and sitting all day hungry is not a very happy prospect). Although they were handing out pen-paper, they were from a hotel, not from Oracle. It seems a trifle, but already "not that."
This is what the plenary report looked like from the audience.
I would like to note the presence of a large number of young, enthusiastic people and what is especially nice - a lot of pretty girls. The prospects for Java with such popularity among young people are not very bad. ;-) The sufficiently large hall was almost completely filled. I thought that a lot less people would want to come.
A decent sized room was almost full.
Judging by Oracle's presentations, the main "trend" for the next few years, both in development and in use, can definitely be called cloud computing. I think that this is precisely the area where the most complete embodiment can find the full potential of the platform. By the way, more recently, Larry Ellison laughed at those who spoke about cloud computing, and now this is the main direction of Java development. That's how it happens. :-)
The future of Java is in cloud computing.
Despite the fact that the words flickered on community quite often in the presentations and even the products of competitors were mentioned, there were no Oracle competitors among the speakers. In other words, it was not Java Day, but Oracle Java Day. And since I began to talk about the shortcomings, I cannot but say that the reports that were in the main part were read in English for some reason. I admit, I do not perceive English speech very well, so it would be more convenient for me to listen to reports in my native language. Not sure if I was the only one there.
But in general, I repeat, the event was successful. Everyone was satisfied. Both speakers and listeners received positive emotions. I think many people brought out something useful for themselves from this event, which means that they did not attend the conference for a reason. Many thanks to the organizers.
I already visited Sun Tech Days before, but then the event was held “under the wing” of Sun, so, frankly, I went to see how much Oracle messed up. :-) Fortunately, I did not have to be very disappointed, although the influence of the new owner of Java was still very noticeable.
An event was held at the Holiday Inn Hotel. I don’t know why, but for some reason large corporations believe that hotels are very successful for their conferences. Personally, I don’t really like such places because of excessive pomp, but this is quite in the spirit of Oracle, so I'm not surprised. A bit corny, yes, but everything went without organizational overhead. In general, the event has less “drive” and corporate rigor (compared to what it was in the days of Sun Microsystems).
Long wandering around in search of a venue for Java Day 2012 was not necessary.
As I said, there were no “shoals" in the organizational plan - there were signs, everyone had enough space, there was no crush anywhere, they handed out the conference program (surprisingly, sometimes the organizers sometimes think that visitors do not need it) and fed them tasty sandwiches and coffee (this is also often forgotten, and sitting all day hungry is not a very happy prospect). Although they were handing out pen-paper, they were from a hotel, not from Oracle. It seems a trifle, but already "not that."
This is what the plenary report looked like from the audience.
I would like to note the presence of a large number of young, enthusiastic people and what is especially nice - a lot of pretty girls. The prospects for Java with such popularity among young people are not very bad. ;-) The sufficiently large hall was almost completely filled. I thought that a lot less people would want to come.
A decent sized room was almost full.
Judging by Oracle's presentations, the main "trend" for the next few years, both in development and in use, can definitely be called cloud computing. I think that this is precisely the area where the most complete embodiment can find the full potential of the platform. By the way, more recently, Larry Ellison laughed at those who spoke about cloud computing, and now this is the main direction of Java development. That's how it happens. :-)
The future of Java is in cloud computing.
Despite the fact that the words flickered on community quite often in the presentations and even the products of competitors were mentioned, there were no Oracle competitors among the speakers. In other words, it was not Java Day, but Oracle Java Day. And since I began to talk about the shortcomings, I cannot but say that the reports that were in the main part were read in English for some reason. I admit, I do not perceive English speech very well, so it would be more convenient for me to listen to reports in my native language. Not sure if I was the only one there.
But in general, I repeat, the event was successful. Everyone was satisfied. Both speakers and listeners received positive emotions. I think many people brought out something useful for themselves from this event, which means that they did not attend the conference for a reason. Many thanks to the organizers.