Oracle Technology Network Stats and a Tweet

Reader's Comments

1. Pete Finnigan | 11 Oct 2007 1:49 am

   Hi Eddie,

   Perhaps the diagram and description in the link are not brilliant but from the diagram connect looks suspiciously like linked-in. why re-invent the wheel why not use a hugely successful solcial network that already exists to connect people interested in Oracle, there are of course many others as well already out there.

   cheers

   Pete

2. Eddie Awad | 11 Oct 2007 8:22 am

   Hi Pete,

   Maybe Connect has features specific to Oracle and not available in other social networks like linked-in and Facebook. I do not know. But, I agree with you, why reinvent the wheel if they are the same.

   Cheers

3. Jake | 12 Oct 2007 1:26 pm

   LinkedIn doesn’t have the Oracle employee directory. It also does not have the trust level of being inside the Oracle firewall. We’re not reinventing the wheel. We repurposing it. Jake

4. Don Burleson | 15 Oct 2007 6:54 am

   Hi Eddie,

   >> Countries containing OTN members: 255

   Er, aren’t there only 196 countries?

   http://www.google.com/search?&q=196+countries

   I wonder where the other 59 are?

5. Eddie Awad | 15 Oct 2007 12:43 pm

   Good catch Don. Based on this website, the number is 194. In any case, it’s not 255 unless we count other planets and galaxies

6. Justin Kestelyn | 15 Oct 2007 12:49 pm

   OK, that should be 255 countries “and territories”.

7. Don Burleson | 16 Oct 2007 5:39 am

   >> it’s not 255 unless we count other planets and galaxies

   Um, but discounting Peteria and Galgamax, it’s still suspicous that it says 255! That’s awful close to a power of two (2**8) . . . .