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While Oracle OpenWorld is still hot in our memories, I’m going to be presenting two of my OOW11 sessions at the Toronto Oracle User Group’s DD Day 2011 on 28-Oct-2011 — in just a bit over 2 weeks. Last time I presented for TOUG at their summer meeting in 2008 which makes it a tad over 3 years ago. It was a good fun and I’m looking forward to see many of you there again.

By the way, I think it’s quite a deal at $140 for non-members and $90 for TOUG members for a one day conference like that, especially if you are interested in the topics presented.

I have two sessions to present:
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It’s a busy summer at Pythian, with our continuing wave of speaking sessions at upcoming community and regional industry events.

Coming to a city near you, watch for Pythian presenting hot Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server database topics:
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Building a successful, profitable business isn’t easy. If you’re thinking about it, best to get advice from the “voice of experience”, people who have been in the trenches, fought the startup battle and won.

In an interview with Startup 3.0, Pythian Founder, Paul Vallee tells the tale of how Pythian started and how he built his management team by appointing Andrew Waitman, accomplished businessman and venture capitalist, to the role of CEO. Paul talks candidly about what it takes to build a successful business, provides advice to budding entrepreneurs, and shares the latest Pythian news of being named one of Canada’s fastest-growing companies & opening Pythian’s newest office to bring a new wave of Oracle, MySQL & SQL Server database expertise to Toronto.

Read the full interview.

PYTHIAN NEWS UPDATE

For the second year in a row, Pythian is proud to be named to the prestigious Profit 200 Ranking of Canada’s Fastest Growing Companies.

Ranking Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies by five-year revenue growth, the PROFIT 200 profiles the country’s most successful growth companies. Published in the Summer issue of PROFIT and online at PROFITguide.com, the PROFIT 200 is Canada’s largest annual celebration of entrepreneurial achievement.

Pythian is also happy to announce the official opening of our Toronto, Canada office and the expansion of our local GTA team to include Regional Sales Director, Colin Thompson (previously with Oracle).

PYTHIAN NEWS UPDATE

The Pythian Group, Inc., a leading provider of remote database infrastructure services, is pleased to announce its selection as one of Canada’s fastest-growing companies. Measured against a running five-year revenue growth, Pythian is listed in the NEXT 100, making it one the top 200 companies overall in the 22nd annual PROFIT 100 ranking of Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies by PROFIT Magazine.

“We are ecstatic to have our organization achieve the a position on the Profit 100, Next 100 list” said Andrew Waitman, Pythian’s Chief Executive Officer. “Our revenue growth is a true testament to our talented team of industry experts and the hours of hard work we put in for our clients.”

Paul Vallee, Pythian’s Founder and Executive Chairman attributes the success to the company’s unique, flexible outsourcing engagement model. “The world is different today. Rapid economic changes brought about by global economic forces require businesses to be agile, and able to rapidly respond to increases or decreases in demand. Service provider models must also adapt to the needs and demands of today’s customer.”
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Small local user group meetings have their own beauty because of the special intimate atmosphere. We expected somewhat higher attendance but it seems that people were already in the holiday mode — it’s been a somewhat hot day and school kids had their last classes yesterday — so we’ve got about half of expected 50 attendees.

I should say that it’s been a nice and relaxing day for me. I started the morning reviewing my slides and then continued at the airport and on the flight. My flight to Toronto arrived just a bit late but I had plenty of time so I arrived quarter to one at the Oracle office building in Toronto (technically, Mississauga).

Djordje Jankovic and Carol Legros, who invited me there in the first place, were already there and, being a nice host, Djordje took me downstairs for a quick lunch. When we were back, the audience was almost ready so I just few 5 minutes to hook my laptops up which is more than enough — I know my Mac well enough now to avoid any surprises. Kenotes even managed to display few PowerPoint slides that Djordje used starting the meeting. By the way, he admitted that Keynotes is way cooler than PowerPoint. Well, that’s no brainer!
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Today I’m doing a presentation at the Toronto Oracle User Group meeting. It’ll be my first time there and I’m really looking forward to it.

My session is called Oracle 11g New Features Out of the Box. It went pretty well at Collaborate 08 and I think it will be the right audience at the TOUG meeting. I’m reviewing the slides at the moment — usual last minute tweaks but it’s time to leave to the airport — my flight is in 1.5 hour.

I have already checked-in on both the flight to Toronto and return. I didn’t know that you can check-in online on the return flight without completing one-way first. Well, I like technology advancing. :)