[Novalug] January Meeting Topic(Oracle Poll)

[Peter Larsen]

Doug Needham wrote:
> I don't go to the regular meetings very often, since I live in 
> Fredericksburg. However, if one of the meetings had an Oracle segment 
> and we had an opportunity for all of the Oracle DBA's to at least say 
> hello, that would be cool.  Maybe we could add on a bit to discuss open 
> source alternatives to things like TOAD and ERwin. I am currently 
> working with an open source ETL tool (Pentaho Data Integrator) that is 
> an alternative to things like Informatica and Oracle Warehouse Builder. 
> I may be able to talk about that. Should we shoot for an "Oracle" topic 
> in Feb or March. I think the person that wants to do the Oracle topic 
> said they can't do it in Jan anyway.
> 
> Thoughts?

I'm all for a local Oracle group. Man, I thought I was the ONLY Oracle 
professional living in Fredericksburg! Glad to know I was wrong. I like 
your ideas for discussion subjects; but it strikes me that we may want 
to have a special "oracle club" for some of discussions like the ones 
above?  Besides, there are local Oracle user groups, like SEOUG. I can 
recommend using them for these kind of tools discussions.

Where I lack on these groups is frequent face to face talks. If there 
are enough of us here, I think we should put our heads together at next 
NOVALUG meeting and figure out where we want to take this?

Regards
   Peter Larsen