MSNBC reports and confirmed by Oracle that OpenWorld and Code One will be in Las Vegas for at least the next three years. I've never been to Vegas but I'll be there next October. https://t.co/nJ1pTxNco5
— Ken Fogel (@omniprof) December 10, 2019
Also: "poor street conditions" https://t.co/NeE2vK6eOW
— Matt Rosoff (@MattRosoff) December 10, 2019
OpenWorld is one of the smaller of the giant tech conferences and has been in decline for awhile, as one would expect if you know the tech sector.
— The Surrealist Side of the Street (@coolgrey) December 10, 2019
IBM Think - bigger and more in tune with the times - moved from Vegas to San Francisco last year. https://t.co/WkoVJXju4T
Oracle today confirmed that next year it’s moving OpenWorld and the 60,000 attendances to Caesars Forum, a new 550,000 square foot conference center in Las Vegas. The group estimates the hit to San Francisco‘s economy at $64 million. https://t.co/zJ56I0Z30S
— George T Bundy (@GTBundy) December 10, 2019
More outlets are writing about Oracle moving OpenWorld to Las Vegas today than have written anything that actually happened at OpenWorld in the past five years.
— Jeremy C. Owens (@jowens510) December 10, 2019
Following several years in which the convention bureau has been decrying the visible homelessness on downtown streets as a deterrent for organizers of lucrative professional conventions, SF is losing one of its big annual ones, Oracle OpenWorld. https://t.co/OBCKqpdSOr
— SFist (@SFist) December 10, 2019
The San Francisco Travel Association estimates the move will cost San Francisco $64 million a year. https://t.co/rRtsxaSJic
— HJTA.org (@HJTA) December 11, 2019
Clearly, nobody at Oracle asked its security team, otherwise they would have known that literally any other US city would have been a better choice than Las Vegas https://t.co/0V8TLrPkqu
— Catalin Cimpanu (@campuscodi) December 11, 2019
The plan is that after three years it will be small enough to move to Fresno to save even more on accommodations. #Openworld? https://t.co/mZ8t2pvLuH
— Kurt Marko??? (@krmarko) December 11, 2019
Please tell me that this will allow @OracleCodeOne become a standalone conference again. https://t.co/8g6RXimN4Q
— mike duigou (@mjduigou) December 10, 2019
Oracle Open World and Code One (nee #JavaOne) moves to Las Vegas: https://t.co/NqIW4LT601
— Arun Gupta (@arungupta) December 10, 2019
- signed three-year deal
- will cost SFO $64m
- high hotel prices and "poor street conditions" as the reasons
Democrats have turned SanFran into such a
— Jim Hanson (@JimHansonDC) December 11, 2019
Well...
Sh*thole
It is now unfit for major events & normal humanshttps://t.co/2WXDpLr2dn
San Francisco’s exorbitant prices and awful street conditions have driven out Oracle’s OpenWorld, which will cost the city $64 million a year. @rolandlisf has the story. https://t.co/tzIkQgLeCP
— Heather Knight (@hknightsf) December 10, 2019
Doesn’t take an oracle to see the sad decline of mean-streeted, overpriced #SanFrancisco but @Oracle now sees Las Vegas as a better venue for its OpenWorld conference.https://t.co/VNYPVu6MHs
— GrrrGraphics Cartoons (@GrrrGraphics) December 11, 2019
“We are sorry to see @Oracle @oracleopenworld move to Las Vegas after more than 20 years in San Francisco, but we will be booking other events to fill that space in the future.” Wow. In denial much, @SFTravelAssn? ? https://t.co/GiO7fMD1eZ
— TheMarinaTimes (@TheMarinaTimes) December 11, 2019
“Other conferences have recently left the city. Apple, Google and Facebook have all moved their developer conferences south.” https://t.co/GiO7fMD1eZ
— TheMarinaTimes (@TheMarinaTimes) December 11, 2019
Oracle is relocating its major @OracleOpenWorld tech conference, one of San Francisco’s biggest annual conferences, to Las Vegas next year. via @rolandlisf https://t.co/0SpQ5trGR5
— San Francisco Chronicle (@sfchronicle) December 10, 2019
https://t.co/qZSTsPGFaP This is a good score for Las Vegas...First the Raiders...? @VitalVegas @LasVegasLocally @LVCVA @ClarkCountyNV #LasVegas @KTNV
— Wharfrat (@JamesHo03148924) December 11, 2019
Adding more to SF problems is their mismanagement of event at Moscone. This will be the beginning of the exodus of tech conferences if the city doesn't figure it out. btw: the new Moscone is recently renovated and nice https://t.co/6ybfoO0dGj
— John Furrier (@furrier) December 11, 2019
Oracle is moving it’s annual OpenWorld conference to Las Vegas from San Francisco
— Courtney ?? (@hollandcourtney) December 11, 2019
The move is estimated to cost SF $64 million a year.
Oracle cited SF’s high hotel prices & "poor street conditions" as reasons that attendees were unhappy with the city. https://t.co/KusfEVeXcW
Oracle担当とJava技術者があつまる、Oracle Open World。これまでずっとサンフランシスコで開催されてきたけど、来年からはラスベガスのCaesarsに引っ越し。OOW側はホテルの高さと"Poor Street Condition"を理由にしている。サンフランシスコ市は年$64M(70億円)の税収を失う。https://t.co/RpMzcbO4J6
— Masayoshi Nakamura (@masayang) December 11, 2019
Oracle moving OpenWorld from San Francisco to Las Vegas Caesars Forum https://t.co/r0mngdymCH
— Julian Dontcheff (@JulianDontcheff) December 10, 2019
Oracle moving its OpenWorld to Las Vegas from SF
— Cali Roots- Taxes = high gas prices (@CaliConsNews) December 11, 2019
Estimates the move will cost SF $64 million/year
Oracle cited San Francisco's high hotel prices and 'poor street conditions' as reasons that attendees were unhappy with the city
#RecallGavinNewsomhttps://t.co/TURB6LCFXV
SF loses major annual conference due to high hotel costs and "poor street conditions." SF imposes a 14% hotel tax plus a "Tourism Improvement District" assessment that ranges from 1% to 1.5%. 1/2https://t.co/2H1VGKvMjb
— CalTax (@CalTax) December 11, 2019
Welcome to Las #Vegas! Happy to host @Oracle and those who will attend the Open World conference to the Las Vegas Strip. It's one of the biggest events booked at the Caesars Forum. The new @CaesarsEnt conference center opens in 2020.
— Clark County Nevada (@ClarkCountyNV) December 10, 2019
Read more from @CNBC: https://t.co/7fZszleJvk pic.twitter.com/pwsLlI6k1M
Oracle will move its annual OpenWorld conference to Las Vegas because San Francisco is too expensive https://t.co/yqhIQCIkfk
— Markus Eisele (@myfear) December 10, 2019
^^
Hehe. About time. Wish I'd had a chance to go to Vegas.
.@OracleCodeOne is moving to Las Vegas https://t.co/aOmtBFhlbU
— David R. Heffelfinger (@ensode) December 11, 2019
Oracle will move its annual OpenWorld conference to Las Vegas because San Francisco is too expensivehttps://t.co/EvKhKrdiEL
— Kamran Agayev A. (@KamranAgayev) December 11, 2019
Oracle is moving OpenWorld to Las Vegas next year because San Francisco is getting too expensivehttps://t.co/W8HOzznxm1
— Steve Kovach (@stevekovach) December 10, 2019
New location for #Oracle #OpenWorld https://t.co/hNc6UVxa22 #orclepm @oracleace #cnbc
— Eric Erikson (@ericerikson) December 10, 2019
Vegas Baby! https://t.co/ELgK1srO3h @Oracle
— Martin Berger (@martinberger_ch) December 10, 2019
#Oracle will move its annual #OpenWorld conference to #LasVegas because #SanFrancisco is too expensive.
— Ahmed (@Ahmed_Aboulnaga) December 10, 2019
Complaints involve high hotel prices and poor street conditions.
San Francisco to lose $64 million.https://t.co/hRFtvYgZDj
CodeOne (JavaOne) is moving to Vegas. Maybe the Duke's Cafe can make a return. https://t.co/dTedgebpqj
— Rafael Winterhalter (@rafaelcodes) December 10, 2019
A lot of publicity over night on #OOW20 being moved to #LasVegas #OOW #Codeone #Vegas https://t.co/IUyeDGyBGZ
— Chris Mason (@ChrisMasonNamos) December 11, 2019
The San Francisco Travel Association estimates the move will cost San Francisco $64 million a year. https://t.co/rRtsxaSJic
— HJTA.org (@HJTA) December 11, 2019
Oracle moving OpenWorld from San Francisco to Las Vegas Caesars Forum https://t.co/4wBQ0QcRaY
— Ron Ekins (@RonEkins) December 10, 2019
Oracle's 60,000 person OpenWorld conference, one of SF's biggest events, is leaving for Vegas: https://t.co/BflpiFV6SC
— Roland Li (@rolandlisf) December 10, 2019
"Poor street conditions" is the kindest way of saying that the trash, needles, feces, and general filth littering the streets from the addiction crisis were a major factor in the decision to no longer hold the conference in SF. This will cost SF $64M/yr: https://t.co/8AzEKJrO2C
— Frustrated In SF (@alesscleverguy) December 10, 2019
https://t.co/ugzdZkcJji@SpeakerPelosi district lost this money maker because of pee in the streets, dirty needles, crime and the homeless! Still think democrats deserve to be re-elected?
— Nina??⭐️⭐️⭐️ (@nina14p) December 11, 2019
SF loses Oracle's huge OpenWorld tech conference to Las Vegas https://t.co/bnaZXUJNNd pic.twitter.com/I7emnGKiSk
— Rich Tehrani (@rtehrani) December 11, 2019
Vegas here we come! @OracleCodeOne https://t.co/aI6cERjTSX
— Dirk Lemmermann (@dlemmermann) December 10, 2019
Oracle will move its annual OpenWorld conference to Las Vegas because #SanFrancisco is too expensive https://t.co/xMAOfXmecz #TechJunkieNews pic.twitter.com/0FPNjZW5qn
— Tech Junkie (@techjunkiejh) December 12, 2019
"Vegas is too expensive!"
— Vital Vegas (@VitalVegas) December 10, 2019
"Um." ~Oraclehttps://t.co/cdGbE2iAzH
Please @salesforce please. Sadly It's such a poor customer experience in San Fran now. Hard to believe you are being one upped by Oracle...
— Mike (@goformike) December 11, 2019
Oracle moving OpenWorld from San Francisco to Las Vegas Caesars Forum https://t.co/4zY0S0wmQB
Thank you @LondonBreed! Let's see if Oracle OpenWorld moving to Vegas is the beginning of an exodus due to scenes like this one. I suspect it's just the first domino... https://t.co/z5V7dQ0ZfZ
— Christina J. (@robotwalksinbar) December 11, 2019