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The first ever Coherence Special Interest group in the US has just been announced.  It will take place on October 9th at the Oracle offices on Madison Ave in midtown Manhattan.  We will hear presentations from a few people, including Cameron Purdy and Brian Oliver.  It will be a great opportunity to mingle with Coherence specialists, former Tangosol employees, and developers using Coherence.

For more information and to RSVP (required to get past building security) see this link.

You can find me at the Oracle Coherence booth at JavaOne Tuesday – Thursday afternoon. If you’ll be there, stop by to say hi!

Next week is the inaugural meeting of the Boston Scalability User Group started by Anthony Chaves. I have the privilege of presenting the first topic, Orchestrating Messaging, Data Grid and Database for Scalable Performance.

Speaking of data and scalability, I stumbled upon this blog post by oraclenerd a few weeks ago. It is an interesting thread of discussion, and it illustrates the context under which data grids are starting to enter into the developer vocabulary.

The NEJUG and OJUG meetings went quite well. We had 80 attendees at NEJUG (my biggest crowd yet!) and 20+ at OJUG. I had good questions and feedback from both meetings, which is always a plus.

Thanks to Mark Johnson and Mark Fisher of NEJUG and Mike Levin of OJUG for the invitations.

This month I’ll be at two user groups. This Thursday (1/17/08) I’ll be presenting Scalability for Spring applications at NEJUG, the same presentation I gave at The Spring Experience last month. On 1/24/08 I’ll be in Orlando presenting Orchestrating Messaging, Data Grid and Database for Scalable Performance. I look forward to catching up with friends and colleagues from the Orlando area next week.