Just coming back from Openworld, I wanted to share what was hot this year.. It was all about Exadata 2 and active dataguard. Not much talk about DBreplay (though this is a great product).. Exadata 2 is the shiny new toy, and Active dataguard is something people have been asking for. Other hot topics were 11gr2, and all the new features. No exciting anouncements this year because all these items were known ahead of time.
There was a big focus on compression also to save money.