I recently attended Oracle Events at Westin Hotel here in Ebisu. My topic of interest was to see what’s the future for a product we’re using that now has been acquired by Oracle.
Quite interestingly the first session from a senior, hi-ranking Oracle official failed to woo me. I mean, c’mon. Just piggybacking on stuff that’s so prevalent nowadays with Apple doesn’t really make a case for Oracle to progress ahead. Big words were just thrown out on every page, every sentence. I sometimes wonder do these guys actually value much as far as the company is concerned. Oracle seems to be calling their new (but nothing novel) buzz as “Oracle Experience” to demonstrate an end to end service to their customers. Every experience you know about purchasing a thing is the exact same thing Oracle wants to offer?
Just what is the customer these days? A lump of flesh, an idiot, or a baby who needs your constant attention, and love to continue using your product? Much recently, the Apple has garnered alot of attention, craze, hysteria within the so call consumer market. Now everyone wants to try it out – suddenly everyone’s got ‘it’.
The Oracle Event was a prelude to their sudden attention to their customers. Surprisingly, I didn’t come across a single presentation that meant anything for the ‘customer’. Every statement was proclaimed as seen from where Oracle stands. At times I felt trouble just bearing the innate nonsense these guys keep churning about every keynote presentation they make.
Make a genuinely good product that last forever, satisfy what the customer needs, and …
just stay out of the way for f*k’s sake.