Re: OT: openworld

Here is the scoop as to why I'm not going to openworld:

Oracle Corp promised to IOUG-A that the conference committee people(those of us
who went thru hundreds of abstracts to work out who would present from the technical
side), would get the airfare and hotel accommadations free as "payment" for our
services.

Being part of the committee, the developer track, I sold management on the concept that
it would be relatively cheap for them to send me and that I was going to do 2
presentations on logminer.

Well Oracle decided that they are NOT going to pay and we will need to cough up the
$$$ ourselves. Well all the hotels are pretty much filled up but they have blocks
of rooms( at > $200/night) and since its so late airfare is way up.

So I checked w/management and decided the "dog and pony" show that oracle puts on
is not worth the $$$ and I pulled my papers from the agenda and decided not to go.

It appears to me Oracle's stand on conferences is this:

"Openworld is the only sanctioned conference and the rest don't count".

So thats the scoop.

Joe

Tamara Swilley wrote:

> Yes,
> What's the scoop?
>
> Tamara
>
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> Oh, geez. Now you have my curiosity up (as I'm sure that of hundreds of
> others).
> What is the scoop on why you're not going to Openworld? I was thinking
> about
> going.
>
> Cherie
>
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