{"id":1450,"date":"2008-10-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/?p=1450"},"modified":"2008-10-03T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-03T12:00:00","slug":"disappointing-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/03\/disappointing-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Disappointing News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

I hope that as many people as possible can post their presentation material on their own websites.<\/p>\n

[Heavy sigh ….]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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… Continue reading Disappointing News<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":917,"url":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/03\/ukoug-2005-presentations-available-online\/","url_meta":{"origin":1450,"position":0},"title":"UKOUG 2005 Presentations Available Online","date":"November 3, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"I've just noticed that the UKOUG 2005 presentations are online. You need to go to the agenda then select the presentation you're interested in and there are download links at the bottom of the abstract. 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