What exactly is the subject of this forum?

Is it about Oracle Financial Services Application? Or just Oracle Financials, in general?
Also, the guy that started the forum invited people to ask questions, and as near as I can tell, he has never responded to a single one of them.
What's going on, here?

Hi,
I am looking for training courses of OFSA, exact what
you mentioned below. Could someone advise me where i
can find out that kind of materials and what course
are available for OFSA?
Lien
Thanks.
I work in the Finance Dept. of a medium-sized bank.I am the DBA for three instances of Oracle Financial
Services Application (OFSA) and two Oracle Express
databases running Oracle Application Server, Oracle
Financial Analyzer, and OFSA Budgeting and Planning.
Maybe we can start to have some discussions.
Tim
The only Oracle certifed OFSA training is only run by CamArch in Sydney. They run classes in the US, UK, Asia and Middle-East as well as Australia. Info for courses is a www.camarch.com.au/education/ofsa.htm
Paul

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