From reading the article you linked to, it looks like Obummer's primary goal in going out there was to pimp for campaign cash...
Employees in the high-tech industry contributed $8.5 million to Obamas 2008 campaign, compared with $1.5 million for Republican nominee John McCain, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a Washington-based research group. No 2008 candidate received more money than Obama from industry employees. Obama won more than 70 percent of the vote in 2008 in the area where the dinner is taking place.
I’m sure it may be nothing. Just struck me as a little odd that Oracle was present in the mix if it was just to put a computer in every pot.