The 2011 Oracle Open World Opening Keynotes kicked off with Judith Sim, Senior VP and Chief Marketing Officer of Oracle, giving some amazing statistics about the company’s annual event.  For example, Oracle Open World has built the largest technology conference in the world: 475 exhibiting partners on show fl0or, 400 Oracle demo ground stations, 520,000 square feet of exhibit space, three exhibit show floors, 2,400 sessions, and 1,600 customer speakers.

However, even with those extraordinary numbers from Oracle Open World,  the most impressive stats came from CEO, Larry Ellison, as he was presented a World Championship ring from San Francisco Giants’s owner and President, Larry Baer, just before his Opening Keynotes Sunday night.  It was well deserved.  Ellison remarked to the bewildered audience, “A lot of people are probably a little surprised that I’m getting this ring, but if you were paying attention, you would realize that I did hit .305 last year, and I was 2nd in the voting for he Golden Glove”.

The performance numbers were even more impressive with the Oracle Customer Care studies.  Sometimes up to 50X -60X better in performance improvement.

Just like the World Championship San Francisco Giants’ proudly display banners of their  All-Stars at AT&T Park, Oracle has done the same this year by putting their super products, “Exadata” and  “Exalogic”, and now their latest, the “SPARC SuperCluster”, on busses, billboards and banners that adorn the Moscone Center and are decorated throughout the city.

Last year, at Oracle’s Open World, their banners prominently read “Software Hardware Complete”.   This year it reads, “Hardware and Software – Engineered to Work Together”.

“The acquisition of Sun transforms the IT industry, combining best-in-class enterprise software and mission-critical computing systems,” remarked Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, after the Sun Microsystems purchase nearly three years ago. “Our customers benefit as their systems integration costs go down while system performance, reliability and security go up.”

After returning to the stage after the “ring ceremony”, Ellison explained how Oracle was able to achieve two main goals:  to make their hardware faster and cheaper, comparing it against IBM’s fastest computer; the IBM 795.

“Parallel Everything…the idea of engineering the hardware and the software, all of it, so it works together, should give us the opportunity to deliver better performance, and a lower cost, better ease of use, better security, better reliability, across the board, if we engineer all the separate pieces  to work together.  That’s the whole idea behind “Exadata”, “Exalogic”, and all of these engineered systems”.

In addition, hybrid columnar compression is used.

“If you compress the data, magic things happen .  We move 1/10 as much data ten times faster.  That means we’re moving from a logical data standpoint, moving data off of storage and into database processors 100X faster.”

Ellison also announced the latest “SPARC SuperCluster”,  which also features “Parallel Everything Architecture”.  It also has the latest SPARC T4 microprocessor, which is faster for Java compared to the IBM P7, and runs on the latest Solaris 11 operating system, but is also backwards compatible with the Solaris 10.

By the way, the “SPARC SuperCluster” is twice as fast for a quarter of the price.

Lastly, Ellison also unveiled Oracle’s latest engineering system; the “Exalytics Business Intelligence Machine”, which provides instantaneous speed of thought analytics, and a powerful new user interface.

Perhaps, next fall, the Major League Baseball commissioner should come by and pay a visit to the Moscone Center to present Ellison the MVP award for the numbers he put up at this years Opening Keynotes address.  They were quite impressive, indeed.

• Watch Oracle OpenWorld Live on Oracle.com or youtube.com.

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In addition to the opening Keynote with CEO, Larry Ellison, the rest of the week’s keynotes is as follows:

Monday, October 3rd, 8am to 9:45am: Mark Hurd, President of Oracle and Thomas Kurian, Excutive VP, Product Development of Oracle give their Keynote “Extreme Innovation” and Joseph M. Tucci, Chairman, President, and ECO of EMC will  give his keynote on “Cloud + Big Data – Massive Change + Massive Opportunity”.

Tuesday, October 4th, 8am to 9:45am: Michael Dell, Chairman and CEO of Dell, Inc will give the Dell Keynote, and John Fowler, Excutive VP, Systems and Edward Screvan, Chief Corporate Architect from Oracle will give their keynote, “Engineered Systems”.

Wednesday, October 5th at 8am to 9:45am: Steve Miranda, Senior VP, Applications Development at Oracle will give the keynote, “Oracle Applications: Complete Solutions, Complete Choices”, and John Chambers, Chairman and CEO of Cisco, will give his keynote, “Empowering Customers Through Datacenter Transformation.  Together we Innovate”.

Wednesday, October 5th at 2:45pm to 4:30: Larry Ellison will make another keynote appearance and speak about “Oracle Cloud Computing”, and S.D. Shibulal, CEO and Managing Director at Infosys will give his keynote, “Accelerating Growth: New Paradigms”.