{"id":270,"date":"2008-09-26T08:57:13","date_gmt":"2008-09-26T15:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/2008\/09\/26\/oracle-ace-in-absentia\/"},"modified":"2008-09-26T08:57:13","modified_gmt":"2008-09-26T15:57:13","slug":"oracle-ace-in-absentia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/2008\/09\/26\/oracle-ace-in-absentia\/","title":{"rendered":"Oracle ACE: In Absentia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So&#8230; A few years back I spent a LOT of time with Oracle ETL and BI products.  I learned them inside and out, gave some user conference presentations, wrote a bunch of blogs, even Alpha tested a version of Oracle Warehouse Builder.  Then I found &#8220;Open Source BI&#8221; and I&#8217;ve been heading breakneck into the world of MySQL, Pentaho, &#8230;  A choice I do NOT regret &#8211; my consultancy is busier than ever and I love the Open Source BI play.<\/p>\n<p>However &#8211; I miss seeing some of the old Oracle peeps at Open World.  This year, I even registered for my free ACE pass to OOW but didn&#8217;t make it because I started two new projects this week.  What I realized this year, was that I&#8217;m WAY out of touch with what&#8217;s going on in the land of Big Red O.  The words and products for BI whiz past me &#8211; they don&#8217;t even look anything like they did just a couple of years back.<\/p>\n<p>I hope everyone had a good time at OOW this year!  I don&#8217;t see a path back to the land of Oracle anytime soon for me.  \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So&#8230; A few years back I spent a LOT of time with Oracle ETL and BI products. I learned them inside and out, gave some user conference presentations, wrote a bunch of blogs, even Alpha tested a version of Oracle Warehouse Builder. Then I found &#8220;Open Source BI&#8221; and I&#8217;ve been heading breakneck into the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,10,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}