I received confirmation recently that the OOW 2008 presentations will only be available to registered attendees. Whilst I can understand that Oracle might not want to give away presentations when they can sell them on DVD and want to encourage attendance, I’m very disappointed in this change from previous years. When I’ve been blogging about presentations, I’ve assumed that readers who work for companies who won’t send them will at least be able to put some of their own time into digging around the presentations.
I hope that as many people as possible can post their presentation material on their own websites.
[Heavy sigh ….]
Thats’ weird because I can download the presentation in PDF (The one published) with the username/password you’ve provided and that are the same as the one from last year.
I think that is the password for looking at the PDFs, but how do you get to the content catalog in the first place without registering?
Maybe I’m wrong, but I know a few people had problems so I checked with Oracle and heard that it’s only ok for registered attendees.
I too tried the posted link with ID and password last week and it did not work. I was unable to get to the catalog.
I just tried it again and it now works. I can get into the catalog and view presentations.
Mike
Oh, cool – that’s excellent news.
Whatever the situation; to be sure, I updated/uploaded mine on my website