Information Everywhere

Last Friday i attended the Oracle Technology Day. The Oracle keynote speaker, Steve Illingworth, talked about the use of Oracle database as a file server which can keep all stuffs including files, email, voice mails, every piece of information. Interfaced the database with a portal and connected to the internet, everyone can access its information seamlessly over the world. He pointed out the use of one single brand database - Oracle - get rid of many headaches about interfacing among new, legacy systems operating in different databases, file systems. At last he talked about his love topic - data mining, demostrated the present capacity of database and analytical softwares to provide instant analysis by a few number of clicks. Such work was done in old age by taking few days to collect data piece-by-piece and doing manual analysis in another few days.

Now information becomes available everywhere. Whenever you have a small gagget connected to internet with a browser, information is at your hand regardless you are in Hong Kong, US, Europe.