Oracle Technology Network Stats and a Tweet

Here are some interesting statistics about the Oracle Technology Network community as of June 2007:

Number of registrations: 5.5 million+
Number of discussion forum threads: 480,000+
Number of discussion forum messages: 1.6 million+
Number of published technical articles/notes: 650
Countries/Territories containing OTN members: 255
Country/Territory with most members: U.S., with 1.7 million and counting
Country/Territory with fewest members: Myanmar, with 2 and counting

On a related topic, Justin recently twittered about “an exciting community-related project in the works with an OpenWorld deadline of course”. Could it be that they are going to open up Connect, Oracle’s internal social network, to the outside, allowing Oracle customers and OTN members to join in?

Filed in Oracle with 7 Comments | Tags: otn

Oracle Technology Network (OTN) is the Largest Developer Community

According to this SDA Asia Magazine article:

OTN has reportedly bumped pass the four hundred thousand member point making it the largest developer community for Oracle in the Asia Pacific region and second largest worldwide… OTNâ€™s new position in the India market also translates to an increase in Oracleâ€™s total online community in the country – comprising customers, partners, students, developers, technical specialists among others – to almost seven hundred thousand members.

Even though the article does not list the source for this information, judging from the increase in the number of Oracle related websites and blogs, the online Oracle community is indeed expanding.

By the way, is MSDN the largest developer community?

Filed in Oracle, Technology with 2 Comments | Tags: otn

A Sneak Preview of The New OTN Special Edition Web Site

Back in early October, Justin blogged about a new project called “OTN, Special Edition”. He also mentioned that it might be called “MyOTN – Beta Edition”.

…Imagine a completely RSS-based version of OTN that allows you to filter your view based on tag (topic) or contributor, for Website content as well as discussion forum threads… Think of it as an “interactive” search process, with the relevant keywords being supplied to you, instead of the other way around.

That’s how Justin described the new project. As a teaser, he posted three low resolution screenshots and did not provide a link to the new OTN site.

Well, I was lucky enough to stumble upon the “OTN, Special Edition” demo URL. I will not publish the URL because it is not hosted on Oracle.com and it will most likely change when OTN goes public with its Special Edition. But, I have recorded a screencast of the new OTN site. I have also taken a few high resolution screenshots. All I can say is that it is really cool.