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Tuesday Feb 21, 2012

We're here live at HIMSS 2012. I did a post a few weeks ago where I
described how we'd be hosting the Oracle demos during the show, and I'm
pleased to say it's a huge success!

Oracle has 12 demo pods showcasing our healthcare solutions.
Things like "Accountable Care and Health Engagement", "Leveraging Data
for Translational Research", "Next-Generation Healthcare Solutions",
"Connected Health Platform", and 8 others. The exciting thing for us is
that every single one of these demo pods is powered by a server-hosted
virtual desktop machine running on Oracle Virtual Desktop
Infrastructure. Each pod has dual 21-inch monitors and a Sun Ray 3 Plus
Client, and we have several Apple iPads in the booth that can demo any
of the Oracle solutions using the Oracle Virtual Desktop Client.

In fact, one of the more interesting things I've done today involves the iPad, too. Right now, I'm composing this blog post on a Windows XP virtual machine provided by the booth infrastructure we created using Oracle desktop virtualization. It's displayed on my iPad2 and I'm using a Bluetooth keyboard to type. It's a pretty cool and portable way to work with a full desktop and I'm not slowed down by using a virtual keyboard.