Unsuggest-a-session - the things we didn't know back in the summer

Someone recently sent me a link to Greg Rahn's June post about this year's "Suggest-a-Session" for Oracle OpenWorld. You may recall that after Jake Kuramoto and Brian "Bex" Huff wrote about this, I ended up writing about it myself.

In retrospect, one of the definitive statements that I made in my July post turned out to be not-so-definitive. When describing the various ways in which you can present at Oracle OpenWorld, I included the following:

Pay a ton of money to be an Oracle sponsor and get a keynote slot.

As we now know, this does not guarantee that you'll get a keynote slot.