So where is Oracle?

Visiting the JavaOne pavillion yesterday at CommunityOne, one thing that stood out was the absence of Oracle. This year there is no Oracle booth, which is very unusual, and a lot of people are wondering what is going on with the Sun/Oracle merger which nobody from Sun is really talking about.

My guess is that due to SEC regulations they’re not allowed to talk about it. But I’m not an expert in that area so I’m wondering if anybody knows what the rules are. However, Larry Ellison just walked in front of us a few minutes ago so we might yet see an official announcement about Sun/Oracle this morning. My guess is we wouldn’t hear about it, but then why would Ellison be here if he’s not going to speak at the podium?

(Sorry for the crappy picture, but there was no light, no flash and he zoomed by … most people in the audience don’t know he’s here … yet)

Update: As soon as I hit “publish” McNeilly stars talking about Sun/Oracle. Joking about rumors of course.

Update 2: “Don’t expect a lot of changes, just increased investment”, Ellison tries to reasure developers at this morning’s keynote. Ellison mentioned how Oracle pretty much uses Java everywhere for their products and he mentioned JavaFX a lot, plus interest in OpenOffice and mobile. For those wondering if Oracle was interested in the client side, I think Ellison has pretty much answered that very clearly.