Menage a Trois: In bed with Microsoft, Oracle and Open Source technologies

Menage a Trois: Mixing Microsoft, Oracle and Open Source technologies – a “non techie perspective”

Speaker: Simon Ellis: Date: 02-Dec-08: Time: 13:05 - 13:50

Hall: 6

Historically many Oracle implementers have expressed fear and loathing of Microsoft technology, and furthermore, have hardly understood the realms of “Open Source”. This presentation workshop provides recent experiences both good and bad of ”mashing up” different components of Microsoft, Open Source and Oracle technologies, and provides some firsthand experiences, and advice for those “non too technical” Oracle implementation teams.

Menage a Trois: A living arrangement comprising three people (not all of the same sex) in a sexual relationship. Alternatively, a sexual liaison between such a group of people. In this case the unlikely bed fellows of Microsoft, Oracle and Open Source.

Simon Ellis
Senior Business Solution Architect with extensive experience working at board level within the business and IT departments. Simon has experience across multiple market sectors including Retail, Public Sector, Manufacturing and Distribution.

His extensive experience working with customers to provide Oracle based solutions for Business Problems providing specialist advice and guidance on how to optimise current and/or planned use of Oracle from both a commercial and implementation perspective. Simon has managed large multi-skilled consulting practices as well as working with customers from project inception through to post implementation support - the full project lifecycle.

Simon understands IT operational business change in order to support large scale Oracle implementations and ongoing support/enhancement.