Joel:

# Every OpenWorld (or equivalent) some people say they won't go
because they saw too much hype at the last one - I specifically
remember people I worked with saying that 15 and 10 years ago.

If you want cheap non scalable solutions then Oracle probably is not
your tool of choice.

The marketing hype that we saw 15 odd years back seems to mostly have
turned into accomplishments and acquisitions.

Wish I had me an Exadata machine!