Insider #63: Highlights: IIUG Survey, Conference corner, Chat
IIUG Insider (Issue #63) September 2005 Highlights: IIUG Survey, Conference corner, Chat wit the lab, LUGs Welcome to the International Informix Users Group (IIUG) Insider! Designed for IIUG members and Informix user group leaders, this publication contains timely and relevant information for the IBM Informix community. Contents: * Editorial... * The IIUG Survey * Mark Scranton's world tour * Chat with the Lab * Conference Corner * The hidden values of a Tech Conference * Informix User Forum 2005 * New Informix User Group in Taiwan * Gillani's Recent Encounter with the 4GL to EGL Conversion Tool * IBM developerWorks Informix zone * Calendar of events * Useful links * Closing and credits =================================================================== Editorial... =================================================================== I am in my new comfortable apartment but editing the IIUG Insider is still a struggle. Getting feedback from readers always makes me feel good. Any feedback is better than not knowing if anyone cares. Of course I prefer positive feedback :) In October the IIUG board of directors will meet to review what has been accomplished this year, revise our priorities and set our future goals. If you have any ideas or concerns you would like me to present to the board please mail them to me before October 6. In the October issue I will report from our meeting. I will be on a private trip to Brazil with my family during the month of October. I will do my best to stay online but am aware of the fact it will be hard to achieve. So once again I am turning to you for help. Take a minute to think what you would like to read in the Insider and if you think you can contribute please do. If you go to http://www.webopedia.com and enter "Informix" you will find the following: Though still much smaller than its chief rival, Oracle, Informix has been able to make large market-share gains recently due to its innovative technology. Wishful thinking? I hope not. Enjoy your reading. My email address is still: gary@iiug.org Gary Ben-Israel IIUG Insider Editor IIUG Board of Directors =================================================================== The IIUG Survey =================================================================== The IIUG would like to thank all our members that took the survey. If you have not, please take a moment now to complete the survey; it will only be online for a limited time. It can be found at: http://www.iiug.org/cgi-bin/survey_Annual_Member_2005.cgi The survey will ask you about your company's current dealings with IBM, database plans, and your perceptions about the future of Informix. It will be used by IBM to better understand and react to the needs of its dedicated Informix community. Thank you! About the survey This survey is being conducted by the IIUG to provide valuable input to IBM from you, the Informix user community. Please answer the questions based on your currently active Informix environment(s). Most questions allow only one response: please select the response that best applies to your environment. We greatly value your input! The survey should take 8-15 minutes. Privacy notice - what we do with the results After the survey is closed, we will collect the results and provide them to IBM on a summarized basis - no individual names will be associated with any response. If you provide additional comments, they will be provided anonymously to IBM together with other user comments. =================================================================== Mark Scranton's world tour =================================================================== Mark Scranton is circling the globe for some time meeting local Informix users and management lecturing, preaching, consulting and talking Informix. For those of you who do not know him (just in case there are any of you out there), Mark works for IBM World Wide Tech Enablement - Informix Products and is a member of the IIUG Board of Directors. The tour is not only a big success in educating the Informix user community and tightening its relationship with IBM, but also demonstrates IBM's strong commitment to Informix. If anyone had doubts, Informix is here to stay. In the following issues we promise to bring you more details. In the meantime if you were lucky to be part of this tour please share your experience with us. If not and you need help justifying Informix to your management or would like to educate your local user group you may contact Mark directly at mark.scranton@us.ibm.com. =================================================================== Chat with the Lab =================================================================== Informix Chat with the Lab - 5 October 2005 11 a.m. Eastern 10 a.m. Central 9 a.m. Mountain 8 a.m. Pacific For 90 minutes "Advances in DBMS Tools for Automating Administration and Performance Management of IDS" Our next chat will address significant advances in the upcoming release of Server Studio JE with Sentinel - the premier feature-rich, powerful and compact suite of professional database management tools that IBM supplies with IDS. We will discuss new functionality, designed to help develop, deploy, manage and maintain reliable enterprise database infrastructure without expensive downtime or interruption to vital business operations. Special emphasis will be given to the wide-ranging array of sophisticated analytical and automation tools to productively monitor, diagnose and efficiently resolve database performance degradation and availability problems. Our speakers are: Jerry Keesee, Director of the Informix Lab and Anatole Vishon, CEO of AGS Ltd. Please RSVP to: https://ww4.premconf.com/webrsvp/register?conf_id=3220874 This Chat will be a Web Conference. How to prepare for the web conference Customers, business partners and vendors: * When joining the web conference, you will be asked for an IBM ID and password. * To verify an existing IBM ID and password, please visit http://www.ibm.com/account/profile to ensure valid sign in credentials and review your registration information. * If you need a new IBM ID and password, visit http://www.ibm.com/account/profile/us?page=reg to register. The ID should be active for usage on http://www.ibm.com/collaboration/collaboratenowauth/ within 10 minutes of submission. * If this is your first IBM Web Conference, attend the special "test" meeting to make sure that you can join easily. Please visit http://www.ibm.com/collaboration/collaboratenowauth/ and click "test meeting" * To join the conference, a Windows 2000 or Windows XP computer is required. IBM employees: * Please use your w3.ibm.com intranet ID and password. * If this is your first IBM Web Conference, attend the special "test" meeting to make sure that you can join easily. Please visit http://w3.ibm.com/e-meetings/webconferences and click "Connectivity Test". The next Chat will be 2 November. =================================================================== Conference Corner =================================================================== IDUG 2006 - North America In conjunction with the International Informix Users Group