This year’s Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference was attended by a record-breaking 34 Oracle employees, making Oracle the top 7th organization by registration, ahead of Facebook, IBM and SAP. In total almost 3000 people from 34 countries attended the conference, which was held Nov. 9 - 11 in Portland, OR. Oracle was a Silver Sponsor and Oracle employees were organizers, speakers and committee members of the conference.

Keynote speakers at the conference were Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, and the Honorable Shirley Ann Jackson, president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, who currently serves on the President’s Council of …

As part of the Grace Hopper Conference on Women in Computing, I attended a workshop on risk taking led by Dee McCrorey. The emphasis was on giving practical ideas for personal and professional reinvention.  It was a very thought provoking talk. 

Leaders need to be capable of navigating and managing “inflection points” (organizational & personal) in order to grow and sustain innovation. This requires the leaders to have the courage to take risks. The personal skills evolve with the times and conditions. New rules are needed for success. Risk taking in the new world needs collaboration and partnering with colleagues …

Oracle Solaris Cluster 3.3 launched today. It is wonderful to see yet another release go out on schedule and the hard work reflected in a solid product that is used across the globe.  The press and several other news sites picked up the news.

The details of Oracle Solaris Cluster 3.3 release are here. There is also a new whitepaper “Oracle Solaris and Oracle Solaris Cluster: Extending Oracle Solaris for Business Continuity” that you will find useful.

Latest book on Oracle Solaris Cluster

Tim Read, one of the Solaris Cluster engineers has written a new book called “Oracle Solaris Cluster Essentials“. This …

Solaris Cluster 11/09 is launched today. It is wonderful to see yet another release go out on schedule. It is nice to see business partners sending notes reading about it in Yahoo Finance and several other news sites. More details about the product can be read on Oasis.

The team has successfully done three product releases in 2009! In January SC3.2 1/09; in June OHAC 2009.06 and in Dec SC3.2 11/09.

I work with a wonderful set of people and am very proud to be part of this team and to steer it forward.

It was wonderful to meet with my panelists and be able to put a name to the face. We had been communicating occasionally prior to the conference. Face-to-face contact adds a completely new dimension to an interaction. It was a pleasure meeting all of the panelists!

(L->R): Kristin Rozier (NASA); Sumitha Prashanth (Sun Microsystems-India); Radha Ratnaparkhi (IBM); Claudia Galvan (Microsoft); Bev Crair (Quantum); Meenakshi Kaul-Basu (Sun Microsystems); Lydia Ash (Google)

The discussion went very well.  I had prepped the panelists on some questions that I  would ask to seed the discussion. Otherwise, I preferred to keep …