Oracle Open World 2008, Day 1 : "The X is Coming"

I was just walking back from the Thirsty Bear with Tim Hall, when we saw this teaser advert inside the Moscone Center:

Presumably this is the new Database Accelerator that hit the blogs and news sites last week, and that Oracle wouldn't talk about at the ACE Director briefing today. If you follow the threads on the various postings you'll get a few ideas - some of the talk is around the filters used to select rows for a query being pushed down to the storage controller hardware, some of it is around Oracle releasing some sort of column-store database, some of it is around a shared-nothing architecture. Who knows, as Oracle are strictly embargoing any news - we'll have to wait until Larry's session later in the week to find out more.