Insider #71: Highlights: SAP certifies additional products on IDS 10; Conference survey

IIUG Insider (Issue #71) May 2006 Highlights: SAP certifies additional products on IDS 10; Conference survey 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 * Highlights SAP certifies additional products on IDS 10 Conference survey * Conference corner IDUG/IIUG Europe Conference Vienna, October 2-6, 2006 $400 Off Information On Demand 2006 Conference Tickets Until June 30 IDUG/IIUG 2006 - North America Recap * IIUG Board of Directors corner IIUG Annual General Meeting Informix Special Interest Groups (SIGs) The 2005 IIUG member survey is yours for the browsing * Education Informix Infobahns are back! Register today for an event in your region! RAID5 versus RAID10 Attention gurus! Publish your Informix technical success stories on IBM developerWorks! Register today for the 2006 International EGL User Conference - August 1-2 IDS is IDS is IDS More on developerWorks Chat with the Lab * Developer corner Informix PHP PDO Driver now in Standard Distribution * Calendar of events * Useful links * Closing and credits ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Editorial ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The IDUG/IIUG conference in Tampa was a huge success. The attendance, the quantity and quality of sessions, the networking and social events were all outstanding. 2006 is going to be a great year from an educational point of view. In addition to the Tampa conference IBM will have the first ever Information on demand conference grouping all information management conferences into one spectacular event. And of course the IIUG in conjunction with IDUG are continuing the collaboration that started in Denver last year and continued in Tampa this year, to have the first DB2 and Informix conference in Europe. Due to circumstances beyond our control the conference has changed dates and location to Vienna October 2-6, 2006. I must add a personal comment about the dates. I am well aware of Monday October 2 being Yom Kipur. Naturally I will not eat or work that day but I can assure you we had no other alternative and as a member of the conference planning committee I know it first-hand. Gary Ben-Israel IIUG Insider Editor IIUG Board of Directors gary@iiug.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Highlights ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SAP CERTIFIES ADDITIONAL PRODUCTS ON IDS 10 SAP recently announced certification of all version 6.40 and 4.6D products on IDS 10. This includes Netweaver 04 SR1, SAP R/3 and other products. This is an excellent opportunity to upgrade your existing infrastructure to the latest offerings from SAP and IBM Informix. For more details please visit the SAP Product Availability Matrix @ http://service.sap.com/pam or call your local IBM sales representative or IBM Business Partner. CONFERENCE SURVEY HELP. Please give us feedback about our Informix conferences. We would like you to please complete our IIUG survey about Informix conferences. If you went to the North American IIUG/IDUG conference in Tampa please take time to complete the survey. Also, if you DIDN'T go to the Tampa conference, please complete the survey. We need to hear from all of you. Here is the link you need http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=328092163910. The survey is very short, at the most there is only 15 questions to answer. It will take you less than 5 minutes. What's it about? We want feedback from you who went to Tampa about the value you got from the event, the subjects that you would like added and any concerns you may have. More importantly, we want feedback from you who, for various reasons did not go to Tampa. Perhaps it was too expensive. Perhaps you could not get your managers support. Perhaps you live outside of the US. Perhaps it was the wrong time of year. Whatever the reason we want to know. What will happen once the survey is closed. Obviously, the results will go to our conference planning teams. But we will also publish the results of the survey in the Insider. Again. Please do the survey NOW. It is fast and simple, and really useful. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=328092163910 Kind regards, David Fraser Survey monkey ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Conference corner ----------------------------------------------------------------------- IDUG/IIUG EUROPE CONFERENCE VIENNA, OCTOBER 2-6, 2006 IIUG is getting closer to Europe, and the IIUG conference is now closer to our European members.Stay tuned! Use the following link for Conference Information and Registration: http://www.iiug.org/conf For our European members who have not attended the US conferences we have sessions like: Understanding New & Sparsely Documented onstats, Point in Time Table Level Restore, Dive into the Depths of Variable-Length Data Types by John Miller and Open Source and Informix Dynamic Server, Using Column Level Encryption in IDS 10, Is your DBA Paranoid enough? By Jonathan Leffler. Along with these highly rated presentations there will be first time presentations like: Datablade Memory Management, Making Best Use of IDS 10 New Features by Cosmo and IDS Internals for Windows, Application Optimization, JDBC, JSP and J/foundation by Guy Bowerman. Mark your calendars. This is a conference you must attend. Cheers,Paul Watson and Gary Ben-IsraelIIUG Europe Conference Planning CommitteeIIUG Board of Directors $400 OFF INFORMATION ON DEMAND 2006 CONFERENCE TICKETS UNTIL JUNE 30 It's an exclusive early bird offer for IIUG members! IBM is offering a limited-time price of $1,495 - that's a $400 discount, the deepest discount available - to IIUG members who register to attend IBM Information On Demand 2006 by June 30, 2006. Register now at http://www.ibm.com/events/InformationOnDemand and enter Promotion Code "DKU23" under the "Company Information" section of the enrollment form. The IBM Information On Demand 2006 global conference will be held in Anaheim, California, October 15-20, 2006. It is the premier information management event for business and IT executives, managers, professionals, DBA's and developers. The conference features over 650 technical education sessions as well as hands on lab workshops and free certification testing. IDUG/IIUG 2006 - NORTH AMERICA RECAP Pre-eminent annual conference for DB2 and Informix professionals exceeds expectations More than 1,200 members of the worldwide DB2 and Informix user communities gathered together for IDUG 2006 - North America, May 7-11 at the Tampa Convention Center, Tampa, Fla., USA. Representing an estimated 10 percent increase in attendance from the 2005 conference, the gathered community enjoyed an exceptional week of education, learning, solution sharing and peer networking. On Sunday, May 7, the conference commenced with a series of full-day and half-day educational seminars presented by several of th

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