I’m loading this for your reading pleasure, but it needs cleaning up, textwise — which I’ll be doing while it’s live. I’ve now done.

(Someone can correct me if this is inappropriate blogger etiquette. I’m also stripping out my accumulated “drinking game” of the number of times Ellison used the phrase, “Next slide, please.” For the completists out there — or the merely curious — he hit 25.)

Remember the Twitter-feed mantra: reverse chronological order.  The entire thing — and I warn you, it’s lengthy — is after the break.

Meanwhile, our earlier Oracle OpenWorld coverage can be found here:

• http://snurl.com/oowblog1
• http://snurl.com/oowblog2
• http://snurl.com/oowblog3
• http://snurl.com/oowblog4
• http://snurl.com/oowblog5
• http://snurl.com/oowblog6
• http://snurl.com/oowblog7

• http://snurl.com/oownews1
• http://snurl.com/oownews2
• http://snurl.com/oownews3

[UPDATE, 9/30: And a few after-the-fact stragglers, too: http://sn.im/blog092908jw and http://snurl.com/oownews4.]

@olivermarks I know! Is Netezza in need of a refresh? I don’t keep tabs on the DW market closely enough 2 know. I’d love 2 hear their response.  in reply to olivermarks

#oow08 #exadata The official press release just crossed: http://snurl.com/exadata

#oow08 #exadata Trapped in keynote hall….crowds backed up headed to Lobby. But “Exadata” banners are everywhere now.

#oow08 #LJE #X The link I provided before just went live – no longer a placeholder: http://snurl.com/3tjb3

#oow08 #LJE #X Zero hope of me getting up those stairs to Moscone North lobby – also @ HP booth in Moscone South, and at DemoGrounds in West

#oow08 #LJE #X Larry had to run out — the only way he could make it to Moscone Lobby in time, I guess was to trick us into staying here.

#oow08 #LJE #X Seriously. Wow. We’re done here.

#oow08 #LJE #X Is that it?

#oow08 #LJE #X Someone watching this via stream better be paying attention.

#oow08 #LJE #X Argh. Again with the customer IDs lost in a sea of silhouetted heads.

#oow08 #LJE #X Here comes a video….

#oow08 #LJE #X This is open technology, constantly improving, price going down, performance going up.

#oow08 #LJE #X That made little sense via twitter, but trust me – that was a new videoconferencing effect.

#oow08 #LJE #X This is an interesting videoconference effect — Ellison was looking at himself and Hurd onscreen; Hurd wasn’t really there.

#oow08 #LJE #X Here comes Mark Hurd! [electronically.]

#oow08 #LJE #X No benchmarks ready for us today on OLTP functionality.

#oow08 #LJE #X …and it runs OLTP as well as Data Warehousing – 90% of the load in an OLTP system is queries and reports.

#oow08 #LJE #X I just noticed the Netezza equipment was released in Dec. 2006. That’s a looong time ago.

#oow08 #LJE #X A feature-comparison chart: Teradata vs. Oracle vs. Netezza. “We’re the only one that has a balance between db functionality”

#oow08 #LJE #X “Netezza does very fast table scans, but their overall capability is really primitive.”

#oow08 #LJE #X “Our database has been around a long time – and Netezza is missing some very basic capabilities.”

#oow08 #LJE #X “There’s no intelligence whatsoever in the Teradata storage server.” [ummm...Ow?]

#oow08 #LJE #X The new link,according to Marketwatch: http://snurl.com/3tjb3 [still looks like a placeholder: http://www.oracle.com/exadata]

#oow08 #LJE #X “Conventional disk arrays cannot compete with this kind of set up.”

#oow08 #LJE #X This has to hurt – comparing the new machine against [[OpenWorld SPONSOR]] NetApp.

#oow08 #LJE #X …and we’re looking at Oracle’s own internal test.

#oow08 #LJE #X The numbers are flying — lots of old disk-array set-ups doing much better with the new machine.

#oow08 #LJE #X Marketwatch already has its story up about HP. http://snurl.com/3tj8l An embargo that lifted?

#oow08 #LJE #X That test customer only had a half-machine. and still avg improvement was 28x better.

#oow08 #LJE #X one customer got between a 10x – 72x improvement in speed.

#oow08 #LJE #X Testing began over a year ago — Amazon.com, Yahoo!, Countrywide (Ha!)…

#oow08 #LJE #X “Even your peer-to-peer network will have a hard time filling this up.” [Don't tempt them!]

#oow08 #LJE #X Holds 168TB of disk data. “And it holds really a lot of songs – we’re not talkin’ the iPod Nano.”

#oow08 #LJE #X There’s an “X” on the front mesh of the machine.

#oow08 #LJE #X “The world’s fastest database machine.” 3 years of work.

#oow08 #LJE #X …just got introduced to a massive ear-blasting noise.

#oow08 #LJE #X And the HP Oracle Database Machine

#oow08 #LJE #X “Silly to be in the hardware business and have only one product”

#oow08 #LJE #X “Fusion” gets mentioned for 1st time.

#oow08 #LJE #X Others are on the way – our intent is to support *every* ORCL database.

#oow08 #LJE #X Available for immediate delivery: EPSS for the Oracle Linux database servers

#oow08 #LJE #X That’s still an astonishing number: 1GB/s, and you can have multiple grids.

#oow08 #LJE #X we’re only able to move 1GB/sec off the grid at a time — but the limiting factor is the speed of those 12 drives.

#oow08 #LJE #X 2 InfiniBand pipes connecting the storage and database grids.

#oow08 #LJE #X Fast parallel processing between the storage grid and the database grid reduces the stress on the interconnect.

#oow08 #LJE #X “We search all those drives in parallel.”

#oow08 #LJE #X [We're going to call the "Exadata Programmable Storage Server" the EPSS from here out.]

#oow08 #LJE #X Deals in query results, not blocks of data.

#oow08 #LJE #X Reduces the amount of data flowing across the database and storage servers. about 1 hour ago from web

#oow08 #LJE #X HP is in there, 4 Intel cores — putting intelligence right next to every drive in the storage system.

#oow08 #LJE #X The Exadata Programmable Storage Server – “not just a bunch of dumb disk drives”

#oow08 #LJE #X “Oracle’s going into the hardware business.”

#oow08 #LJE #X The Message: Solving the Data Bandwidth Problem. 2 solutions: Reduce the data, or have wider faswter pipes and more of them.

#oow08 #LJE #X Even the fastest fall apart at 10TB.

#oow08 #LJE #X Data warehouses start to slow at around 1TB – “that’s where the elbow is in the curve.”

#oow08 #LJE #X Lg databases are at 200 TB

#oow08 #LJE #X “We really need much more performance out of our databases than we currently get.”

#oow08 #LJE #X “It’s extreme engineering, driving extreme performance.”

#oow08 #LJE #X The new boat will do 30mph in less than 10mph of wind.

#oow08 #LJE #X “in my primary job, I’ve been trying to win the America’s Cup for th last 7 or 8 years.”

#oow08 #LJE #X Ellison only, No Mark Hurd at all.

#oow08 #LJE #X And the “Extreme Performance” metaphor is literally being drummed into our heads.

#oow08 #Livermore She’s done. We’re onto a yachting video.

#oow08 #Livermore “Hard to find two companies that offer you a stronger portfolio than HP & Oracle.”

#oow08 #Livermore winding down…here comes Mark?

#oow08 #Livermore Replacing copper with laser-light-beam-delivered information.

#oow08 #Livermore “we’re going to be able to create technologies to cut the carbon footprint of datacenters by 75%”

#oow08 #Livermore “Exo-scale datacenters — a completely new way to think about…op[timizing datacenters."

#oow08 #Livermore "We can build and ship a datacenter to you within 6 weeks."

#oow08 #Livermore 40 feet long, 22 racks, a scalable flexible environment -

#oow08 #Livermore Here's the nub: Performance Optimized Datacenters - PODs

#oow08 #Livermore "runs one of the largest Oracle grids in the world... 54 nodes supporting over 300 databases."

#oow08 #Livermore paraphrase: "We're now #2 in the IT services field."

#oow08 #Livermore Weird capitalization in these presentation slides. [sorry -- editing mode again.]

#oow08 #Livermore “Gves us a position of having a much broader portfolio — you’ll see us continue to invest heavily in R&D.”

#oow08 #Livermore Now boasting of the #HP #EDS union.

#oow08 #Livermore A bit of dead air there….

#oow08 #Livermore “The work we’re doing from a client’s perspective…2deliver security and reliability…from a virtualization per … …

Oooo. RT @ sheeri: @alexgorbachev perhaps HP is providing the hardware for Oracle to live in a virtual environment. #oow08 #X [Nice.]

#oow08 #Livermore “The bowl of spaghetti” — I still prefer #netsuite ceo Zach Nelson’s “hairball” metaphor.

#oow08 #Livermore went from “2/3 of spending to maintenance” ===> “2/3 of spending to innovation.”

#oow08 #Livermore brought IT costs down to 2% of revenue – saving $1B/year   about 1 hour ago  from web

#oow08 #Livermore HP went from 85 data center to 6 about 1 hour ago from web

#oow08 #Livermore HP boasts of “the visibility” its software provides.Too bad Anthony Lye just spent all wk saying “visib … …

#oow08 #Livermore HP servers are 45% more efficient w/o sacrificing performance.

#oow08 #HP Blades represent a “highly adaptable, 24/7, lights-out system”

#oow08 #Livermore [I love that HP empty-skull logo - it's the light-green color I don't get.]

#oow08 #Livermore “We’re implementing and using our own products.” Here comes a video clip.

#oow08 #Livermore “We’ve all lived through the discussion of things that are not quite real.”

#oow08 #Livermore “The future state = assets operating as a single virtual infrastructure.”

#oow08 #Livermore “transformng the data center” — a prologue to X?

#oow08 #Livermore foundation of HP’s portfolio = Servers/Storage + Services + Software

#oow08 #Livermore “We’re serious about storage.”

#oow08 #Livermore “We ship a server every 13 seconds.” [did I hear that right?]

#oow08 #Livermore shout-outs to CEO Mark Hurd (ex-Teradata) and CIO Randy Mott (ex-Dell and ex-Wal-mart)

#oow08 #Livermore “Aging infrastructure just flat-out can’t keep up with demands.”

#oow08 #Livermore Digital content doubling every 18 months – a new Moore’s Law?

#oow08 #Livermore [Is she replacing Mark Hurd, or just a preamble to him?]

#oow08 #Livermore [Didn't know she was going to present, btw.] “Lots of people have problems in their data centers” By 2010, m … …

#oow08 #Livermore HP just upgraded from Siebel 7.5 to 8.0

#oow08 #Livermore “Our global HR system is PSFT HCM.” it’ll be 300,000+ with EDS on board.

#oow08 #Livermore “over 85% of our supply chain has Oracle soultions as part of it”

#oow08 #Livermore Rule #1, never ask the audience for a show of hands unless you KNOW they’re gonna raise ‘em.

#oow08 #Catz And it’s Catz, people — not Katz. (Wanted to make a LOL Catz joke, but I restrained myself.)

#oow08 #Catz Introducing Ann Livermore HP Technology Solutions Group EVP

#oow08 #Catz HP = “closest partner,” largest technology company in the world. [Really?]

[NOTE: Apparently not—Lauren also has in her notes that Catz introduced HP that way, but Livermore later said that, by software revenue, HP is "the 6th-largest company." Either way, this is a fact that needs verification.]

#oow08 #LJE Here we go. Safra Catz coming on now

@NishantK Easy: They’re in the cloud. Virtual, parallel — but secure and integrated. =) #oow08 #LJE in reply to NishantK

RT @NishantK: #IdM #OOW08: Riddle me this – how do you fit 43,000 into a keynote hall that fits 15,000?

@fuadar I think you’re right http://snurl.com/oowblog7 #oow08 #LJE  in reply to fuadar

#oow08 #LJE @mkrigsman I don’t think we’re gonna hear “Fusion.” http://snurl.com/oowblog7

#oow08 Given ORCL’s newly robust Amazon.com connections, wonder if the daily Oracle Newspaper is available via Kindle…?(Not that I have 1)

#oow08 The list of things I didn’t get2this week is (far) longer than the other list. @olivermarks may have a pt. http://snurl.com/oowmarks

#oow08 #LJE A 3rd wave of attendees seemingly just jumped the barricades; the aisles just flooded with bodies.

#oow08 #LJE Appropriate song (& one I recognize): “Everybody here comes from somewhere” R.E.M.

#oow08 #LJE Wondering if these Digital Conversation threads r being archived somewhere. Be interesting to apply Social CRM to the responses.

#oow08 #LJE Ahhhhh…the elusive @eddieawad found me. I’m so relieved. I’d merely been envying his 24Mbps from afar. Hope we connect later.

#oow08 #LJE The soundtrack, 4 those playing along, is much harder than other keynotes this wk. Amping the crowd, no doubt. (I don’t know’em)

RT #oow08 #LJE RT @Mrgareth: RT @kwalsh streaming live from Oracle Openworld http://snurl.com/oowwalsh

#oow08 #LJE realizing no one has any human hope of squeezing out to the Moscone lobby at 4.15pPT for the X announcement.

#oow08 #Ellison #LJE Choosing at the last minute to change hashtags – #LJE seems to be catching on, and is much shorter.

#oow08 #Ellison @laurenmizzou was holding down the fort this a.m. while I tended to dead-tree concerns, but the live-tweeting begins anew.

#oow08 #Ellison Thank goodness 4 @eyemsusie @joanlevy + the whole Oracle [&Blanc+Otus] CorpComm & MediaRelations team; I’d be on Mission St.

#oow08 #Ellison Amazing turnout for this thing – line was extended even further than the opener;Oracle Club Gold level folks got ushered in

#oow08 #Ellison RT @eyemsusie lje and hp keynote line insane! [eep! better get there myself!]