Part of the JavaOne conference this week was a huge party by Oracle on Treasure Island, San Francisco. It featured a live concert (photos) from around 8pm to 1am with Kings of Leon, Pearl Jam and a band that was apparently big in the US indie scene in the 80s called “X”.

I enjoyed Kings of Leon – who had the unenviable task of warming up a crowd of thousand of mostly male IT dudes, then a great Pearl Jam gig and stayed to see and dance to X, until in the end Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder reappeared and joined X on stage …