com (Faiz Askari) In a pair of online surveys that were jointly conducted between May and August of last year by the International Oracle Users Group (IOUG) and Oracle, only 26% of the 150-plus respondents said that their companies required the software vendor's quarterly patch updates to be applied on all systems as soon as they're released.
But somewhere in the 1990s, they took the initiative, annexed the major users' conferences (for example, the International Oracle Users Group annual get together became the vendor's own Oracle Open-World), and undermined their power.
He is the chair of the OAUG Fusion Council, a member of the Oracle Usability Advisory Board, involved in several OAUG SIGs and a member of the International Oracle Users Group Community (IOUC) Product Development Committee.
During her opening speech, Patricia Dues, president of the OAUG, discussed the continued efforts of the OAUG to collaborate with other Oracle-related groups such as Quest and the International Oracle Users Group (IOUG), the significance of the OAUG's Fusion Council and how the OAUG works with Oracle Corp.
The International Oracle Users Group (IOUG), a leading Oracle database and applications user group; the Oracle(R) Applications Users Group (OAUG), the world's largest user knowledgebase for Oracle Applications users; and the Quest International Users Group, an independent, not-for-profit association serving PeopleSoft and JD Edwards users; today announced an agreement for a collaborative annual user group conference in 2006.
Active in the international Oracle user community, Abbey is the director of conferences for and serves on the board of directors of the International Oracle Users Group (IOUG).
An active member of the business intelligence and data warehousing community, de Vera has given presentations at several industry and academic venues, including: Oracle World, Oracle Open World, International Oracle Users Group, First State Oracle Users Group, MicroStrategy World, DAMA, SQL PASS, Hyperion Solutions and Blue Cross Blue Shield Information Management Symposium.
