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Oracle Database Developer Choice Awards: the voting has begun!


The Oracle Database Developer Choice Awards celebrate and recognize technical expertise and contributions in the Oracle Database community. As longtime and new users of Oracle Database move to the Cloud and take advantage of this exciting new architecture, community experts will play a critical role in helping them succeed.

Panels of (mostly) Oracle ACE judges have now selected their finalists, and the time for public voting has begun! From 15 September to 15 October, we call on all members of the Oracle Database developer community to check out the finalists for each of these categories and vote for those you think deserve worldwide recognition for their work.

You can vote for as many finalists as you like, but you can register only one vote per finalist (even those of us living in Chicago).

And if you would like to help us generate buzz for the awards program via Twitter and other social media platforms, please use the #odevchoice hashtag.

Congratulations to all our finalists! Even if you do not take home an award, making it onto this list is a substantial achievement in and of itself.

SQL Finalists
  • Stew Ashton
  • Justin Cave
  • Kim Berg Hansen
  • Sayan Malashinov
  • Emrah Mete
  • Matthias Rogel
  • Erik van Roon
  • Sean Stuber
PL/SQL Finalists
  • Patrick Barel
  • Adrian Billington
  • Morten Braten
  • Bill Coulam
  • Kim Berg Hansen
  • Sean Stuber
  • Roger Troller
Oracle REST Data Services Finalists
  • Dietmar Aust
  • Morten Braten
  • Dimitri Gielis
  • Anton Nielsen
  • Kiran Pawar
  • Tim St. Hilaire
Oracle Application Express Finalists 
  • Morten Braten
  • Karen Cannell
  • Jari Laine
  • Paul MacMillan
  • Kiran Pawar
  • Trent Schafer
  • Juergen Schuster
Database Design Finalists
  • Heli Helskyaho
  • Mark Hoxey
  • Michelle Kolbe
  • Rob Lockard
The winners of the Oracle Database Developer Choice Awards will be announced at the YesSQL! Celebration on 27 October, during Oracle OpenWorld 2015.



Comments

  1. AnonymousSeptember 16, 2015 at 6:33 AM

    Good luck to all finalists.

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  2. Stew AshtonSeptember 16, 2015 at 7:55 AM

    Steven,

    Can you explain the "down vote" phenomenon?

    Many of us had 0 points but 8 votes this morning (France time). Some think voters are voting finalists down but I wonder if it's not a technical issue in most cases.

    Strange to have a "down vote" option and to show a running tally.

    Anyway, off to "down vote" my nearest competitors - kidding!!!

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    1. Sayan MalakshinovSeptember 16, 2015 at 2:21 PM

      At start it was quite easy to find out who downvoted - i saw all voters list and in their accounts we can see for whom they upvoted(system adds points for upvotes), and the system doesn't show downvotes in account info.

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  3. Steven FeuersteinSeptember 16, 2015 at 8:18 AM

    I don't know if I can explain it, Stew, except to say: I wish that it weren't possible to down vote. But we could not turn that off. I hope and fully expect that as the vote tallies accumulate, the relatively small number of down votes (caused perhaps by the most ardent supports of another finalist? Like our primary system, drawing out the most "extreme"(ly supportive) voters?) will be overwhelmed by the up votes.

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  4. Stew AshtonSeptember 16, 2015 at 8:26 AM

    Thanks, Steven. Hope it's all a big success.

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  5. Morten BratenSeptember 22, 2015 at 7:35 AM

    Steven, quick question: Is it okay to ask family, friends and coworkers (who might not have OTN logins already) to vote for me? I had a quick look in the official rules, but got lost in the legalese... :-)

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  6. Steven FeuersteinSeptember 22, 2015 at 7:47 AM

    Is it OK? Hmmm, well, first of all, if a member of your family or a friend or a co-worker is not a government employee, does live in Quebec or Italy, does not work for Oracle, was not an awards judge, they are eligible to vote. So no violation of the rule and it is OK from that regard.

    Is it OK to campaign for your award and ask your community, however you define it, to support you? Absolutely.

    Would it be wonderful if one person happened to be related distantly to Genghis Khan and therefore had "family" numbering in the millions (http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2010/08/1-in-200-men-direct-descendants-of-genghis-khan/#.VgFpWItXP6Q) and they all voted and thus this person won an award?

    Maybe not so wonderful.

    The objective of the awards program is to give to our Oracle Database Developer community, and to highlight the achievements of more of the leaders in that community.

    So far it is doing just that and we have overall high expectations for the impact of this awards program.

    Hope that helps.

    Congratulations, by the way, Morten, on your triple nomination!

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