Oracle OpenWorld Nerd Invasion
Funny post by Bikes and the City:
While roaming around the Yerba Buena Gardens, I realized the Oracle convention is going on. That only means one thing: Nerd-traffic-congestion. Altogether. I don’t really mind all the oraclelings around with their black portfolio bags, silly badges and bright red tarps, but I saw this display in the below image.
So many bikes and so little information! I think Oracle is up to something bikes-software… Maybe to get a smaller belly for all those computer programmers? or correct their posture? Team up with some kinda gadget phone? Will Bill Gates and Seinfeld be on a bike next? Argh, the security guard wouldn’t let me ask or get closer either. Oh well.
Oracle’s San Francisco OpenWorld event gets more than 40,000 visitors, shuts down a block in downtown, and generally packs hotel and restaurant venues in and around the Moscone Center, where it is held.
It turns out Oracle was doing quite a bit of Green stuff. The bikes that Meligrosa, of Bikes and the City, saw were stationary bikes that Oracle was using to help generate power for the convention:
If you see people pedaling stationary bicycles this week in Yerba Buena Gardens, they won’t just be exercising - they’ll be charging the laptops and cell phones they brought to Oracle OpenWorld, the annual customer conference sponsored by the Redwood City database giant.
If they pedal hard enough, these folks will generate extra energy that Oracle will capture and use to help power the conference, which has grown to occupy all of Moscone Center and several surrounding hotels.
I think it would have been great if Oracle provided some type of bicycle-sharing facility, but maybe it’ll be even better if bike-sharing is provided by the City of San Francisco in time for next year’s OpenWorld.
The OpenWorld servers appear to be having all sorts of trouble at the moment, so if you get an error, just reload.
More on OpenWorld’s Green Program here.
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