Re: IOUG and Quest Oracle Community - Merger

RMOUG in February always has a good lineup of talks by and for DBAs;  same with GLOC in May.

On 7/8/19 13:15, Leroy Kemnitz wrote:
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> I am ‘giving up’ on conferences for DBAs.  I agree that Collaborate is
> less and less for DBAs – I attended the conference for many years and
> enjoyed it in the past.
>
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> *On Behalf Of *Tyfanie Wineriter
> *Sent:* Monday, July 8, 2019 2:07 PM
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> *Subject:* RE: IOUG and Quest Oracle Community - Merger
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> Out of curiosity, now that Quest swallowed IOUG, and Collaborate is
> significantly less DBA-Focused (I agree with Jeff, it was already
> becoming less and less for DBAs), what conferences are DBAs going to
> instead?  Is there a good DBA-Focused conference, besides OpenWorld?
>
> I wanted to do a “MySQL For the Oracle RAC DBA” presentation, since
> that’s what I was looking for at the last Collaborate. :D
>
> ~ Tyfanie Wineriter ~
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> <mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org>> *On Behalf Of *Jeff Chirco
> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 5, 2019 5:06 PM
> *To:* Alfredo Abate <alfredo.abate_at_gmail.com
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> *Subject:* Re: IOUG and Quest Oracle Community - Merger
>
> To be honest was not a fan but also doesn't matter too much as this
> was the first year I decided to not renew my membership. I wasn't
> finding any value in the membership, the webinars seemed to be less
> and less, I stopped reading the Select Journal when it moved to an
> electronic format (just personal preference), and the website had a
> lack of community involvement.  I've attended Collaborate 3 times, and
> as a DBA in a company that does not have any Oracle "Apps" nor have
> any plans to use Oracle Cloud the conference was providing less of a
> value. It seemed the DBA related sessions were less and less and
> mostly focused on the Cloud. Which I get as that is Oracle's push, but
> just not for our company until maybe one day we are forced.  Also I
> always felt overwhelmed by the disproportion amount of "apps" people
> from Quest and OAUG versus the DBA's from IOUG. Was harder to find
> good conversations. I was kind of hoping IOUG would go the other way
> and own its own from the conference perspective.  If I attend another
> conference it will probably be RMOUG or ODTUG as those just seem to
> make more sense for what we focus on. But I've meet some great people
> through IOUG and it could actually be better under Quest. Just my two
> cents. I'll continue to keep and eye on it as it goes.
>
> Jeff
>
> On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 8:57 AM Alfredo Abate <alfredo.abate_at_gmail.com
> <mailto:alfredo.abate_at_gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> In case you haven't heard, the IOUG is now part of the Quest
> Oracle Community.
>
> https://questoraclecommunity.org/better-together
>
> Alfredo
>

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