Even if you've never visited the Oracle headquarters campus in Redwood Shores, California (about 20 miles south of San Francisco), you are in still in luck. Using Google Maps and their just released new integration with the Keyhole satellite mapping technology they acquired last year, you can get a helicopter's eye view of the place from about a hundred meters away by trying this:
- Visit http://maps.google.com
- Enter "200 Oracle Parkway, 94065" and click (Search)
- Zoom in to the most closeup level on the Map view
- Then, click the "Satellite" link in the upper-right corner
Wow.
You can drag to pan the satellite view just like the regular map view. If you drag up and right you can bring the nearby "four-leaf clover" intersection into view that Oracle employees use to get onto Highway 101. If you could just zoom in a little bit closer and tilt the view, you could probably read the advertising billboard that IBM inherited when they acquired nearby Informix Software. It sits right at the onramp to northbound highway 101, and antagonizes Oracle employees heading home with (surely, untrue!) claims about DB2 being better than Oracle.
Nicely done again, Google!
4:10:01 PM 
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