Joan Levy over at Oracle was awesome enough to put me on the press list for OpenWorld this week. I'm not sure how much time I'm going to have to attend the sessions, but will try to walk the expo floor once or twice, and hit as many of the 7 after parties I've been told about so far.

I made it down to registration today at about 5:40 and was blown away by the enormity of it. Howard St. is shut off between 4th and 5th, covered with tents for parties. It appears bot Moscone East and Moscone West have been rented out solely for OpenWorld this week.

Oracle's press put out a caution that most hotels in downtown are booked up this week with conference attendees. Attendance is expected to peak 43,000 and there are over 1,800 sessions happening. Somebody tweeted earlier that on Thursday there are over 80 concurrent tracks going on at the same time.

Apparently Oracle is big business? I'm mainly interested to hear what Oracle's plans for the cloud are, and if the rumors are true that they're working with somebody to build a massive cloud of Oracle Database servers as a service.