RE: Musings on the IIUG Conference 2008

I think you were in the wrong sessions :) being in the 40-ish age bracket myself, unless my eyes deceived me, I thought I saw an interesting number of younger folks. seriously, if you have contacts at universities or other youth oriented venues and would like some focus there, get in touch with me. I had some serious discussions with IBM at the conference regarding this very topic. thanks much, Norma Jean Sebastian ________________________________ From: informix-list-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:informix-list-bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of Jörg Volz Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 3:40 PM To: Neil Truby; Informix list Subject: AW: Musings on the IIUG Conference 2008 I totally agree, with my nearly 40 years I felt very young. But who says that only the young guys can do IT? So think positive, when the younger DBAs have a family, kids and rediscover their hobbys again, they will move from Oracle to Informix to get the time they need. ;-) But: I was (positive!) surprised about the percentage of women attending the meeting. Joerg Volz (sorry for the big automatic disclaimer, but in Germany it´s law) ________________________________ Von: informix-list-bounces@iiug.org im Auftrag von Neil Truby Gesendet: Mi 07.05.2008 22:27 An: informix-list@iiug.org Betreff: Re: Musings on the IIUG Conference 2008 <mark.scranton@gmail.com> wrote in message news:b3cdbbd9-8ce3-459d-8dfe-4e4f7350a6ea@c58g2000hsc.googlegroups.com... One observation that I omitted for some reason, but several people commented upon it, was the high average age of the attendees. Robert, who also attended from Ardenta, is in his his early thirties and I wuld say he was very comfortably in the bottom decile of the age distribution. I have one Informix specialist at Ardenta who is still not 30, but he seems to be an aberraton in this respsect, and a good 10-15 years younger than the average Informix expert. I think this is quite a worrying demographic for Informix - clearly many years have gone past since youngsters think it worth studying - and this is an important thing to counter if Informix is to regain its pomp under the renewed vigour of IBM's promotion. _______________________________________________ Informix-list mailing list Informix-list@iiug.org http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list IT Handel und Beratung Jörg Volz Bernhard-Früh-Str. 7 77855 Achern GERMANY Tel: 07841-681651 Fax: 07841-681654 Mobil: 0170-2989757 Ust-ID: DE201383541 http://www.it-volz.de ============================================================ The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any reproduction, dissemination or distribution of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you. Tellabs ============================================================

Sebastian, Norma J. wrote: > I think you were in the wrong sessions :) > being in the 40-ish age bracket myself, unless my eyes deceived me, I > thought I saw an interesting number of younger folks. > > seriously, if you have contacts at universities or other youth oriented > venues and would like some focus there, get in touch with me. I had > some serious discussions with IBM at the conference regarding this very > topic. > > thanks much, > Norma Jean Sebastian > > Yes, but how serious is IBM? Care to elaborate? JWC

Hi John, I put forth a couple questions at the IIUG annual meeting and got a substantial response from IBM. Look in the Insider (#94) from May 2nd, there is a specific IBM'er listed whom you could contact directly for further information and to assist in this effort. I feel this topic is solidly on the radar.... And we all have an opportunity to help. Sorry I don't have more details to share in this forum/at this time.... Stay tuned to the insider and the iiug website.... Thanks, Norma Jean Sebastian -----Original Message----- From: informix-list-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:informix-list-bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of John Carlson Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 9:43 PM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Re: Musings on the IIUG Conference 2008 Sebastian, Norma J. wrote: > I think you were in the wrong sessions :) > being in the 40-ish age bracket myself, unless my eyes deceived me, I > thought I saw an interesting number of younger folks. > > seriously, if you have contacts at universities or other youth oriented > venues and would like some focus there, get in touch with me. I had > some serious discussions with IBM at the conference regarding this very > topic. > > thanks much, > Norma Jean Sebastian > > Yes, but how serious is IBM? Care to elaborate? JWC _______________________________________________ Informix-list mailing list Informix-list@iiug.org http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list ============================================================ The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any reproduction, dissemination or distribution of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you. Tellabs ============================================================