Results of my poll so far... User conferences... are they too expensive?

Well the results of my poll (which can be reached from my Blog) seem  very interesting. I'll share one result with you right now:

The question is:

1. Which of the following (if any) Oracle DBA conferences do you feel you get the most benefit out of?

The front running answer, which surprised me a bit, is:

User conferences? Who has the money?

Out in front at 24% of the respondents!!

So, we user conferences really overly priced? If so, what do we do  about that?

Cheers!!   

Robert G. Freeman
Author:
Oracle Database 11g New Features (Oracle Press) Portable DBA: Oracle (Oracle Press)
Oracle Database 10g New Features (Oracle Press) Oracle9i RMAN Backup and Recovery (Oracle Press) Oracle9i New Feature
Blog: http://robertgfreeman.blogspot.com (Oracle Press)

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