HOUG 2020
HOUG 2020 November 12, 2020 Interesting Facts,Conference As the spring HOUG (Hungarian Oracle User Group) conference was cancelled, much to my regret - where I would have been one of the speakers - the autumn event was fortunately held. I have mixed feelings about professional conferences in general, especially given the current dumping of presentations online, with more [...]
APEX@Home 2020
APEX@Home 2020 April 21, 2020 Conference In my more than 20 years of professional career, I have encountered many different approaches. I myself am doing my third degree and often teach, but I see the issue of learning as very controversial. The APEX@Home 2020 event presented 24 presentations in 24 hours from 24 speakers in just one day. The list of presentations is available here, [...]
Oracle Open World London
Oracle Open World London February 17, 2020 Conference To be honest, I didn't save any time or money, this was the first time I attended a professional conference abroad. I have no regrets. The size of the event, the organisation, the number of attendees and presentations was far beyond anything I had ever seen before.There were at least eight simultaneous presentations and [...]
Customer, experience
Customer, experience November 6, 2019 Interesting Fact The latest buzzword that companies are starting to spend a lot of money on (no, I don't mean public companies) is customer experience. But doing business or shopping could be an experience without spending extra money. All it would take would be a little more humanity, kindness and attention to me, the customer, the buyer. I have been to another lecture. [...]
Faces that do not exist
Faces that don't exist October 17, 2019 Interesting Facts,Conference Believe it or not, none of the above pictures belong to a person who ever lived. They are all the product of machine learning and artificial intelligence. Today, I attended the annual event of the Hungarian Oracle Users' Association (HOUG), where, among other things, this was the topic of the [...]
The cloud above all
The cloud above all else October 3, 2019 Applications I didn't think I'd be blogging about the cloud for the third time.It just so happened that - perhaps because my company is already in the (Google) cloud - I was invited to "The Cloud made for Hungary" event. Of course it was a buy our product type of presentation, but maybe [...]
Why not go to the cloud?
Why not go to the cloud? May 21, 2024 Applications A few days ago I attended a free presentation by a company where they explained the advantages of living in the cloud over having a server under the kitchen table. I myself have been through the bumpy road of external winchester, CD then DVD, pen drive, NAS, rented storage POP3 versus IMAP mail for the last 20 years, [...]
The cloud be with you
Let the cloud be with you September 21, 2019 Interesting Fact Just a week ago at this year's Oracle OpenWorld, Larry Ellison announced the Always Free program for businesses. You get an immediate 85,000 HUF buy-down, but there's a very big bet that you'll be able to use the free services without restriction after the 30-day trial period. We'll see. This [...]
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