At Oracle Open World I had after the keynote from Larry Ellison the opportunity to see the machines where everybody was talking about. Marco (the XMLDB guy) found out where they were, so Marco and me went to Moscone North and found the machines in their full glory… (a bit exaggeration, but to be honest as a former worker at IBM it still gives me a good feeling to see this kind of technology…).
At the moment we really went close to the machines, a security officer gave us some signs that we were not allowed to cross a line I didn’t see before. Anyway still looking at the machines from a small distance and making many pictures…