I’ve been AWOL from the blogging world for quite awhile. Been busy for the past few weeks; working on another ITC white paper about RAC, assembled and delivered some internal 11g presentations and right now I’m in DC working with a client… all that has added up and kept me from blogging much.

I had the privilege to attend two days of partner training downtown in Chicago right before 11g was released. In fact Greg Pike from Piocon was in the same class with me and blogged about it a few weeks ago (part one and part two). There was quite a bit of information packed into the class and most of it is available right in the manuals on OTN so it’s fair game for blogging. I would strongly recommend reading his posts – they provide a really good overview of 11g new features.

I personally filled 16 sheets of notebook paper during the course of both days and so I’ll try to get a few of my highlights into this post.

Summary

They had a sales briefing at the very beginning but I skipped it (I’m more interested in the technical aspects). However it did seem like someone mentioned that a major theme for 11g will be agility. Trying to piggyback on the whole Agile coding thing I guess.

Here’s one way of breaking down many of new features into categories:

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Download Oracle 11g for Linux now! Looks like it just went up on OTN!!!