WAIUG User Technical Forum 98 Update
Washington Area Informix User Group Forum 98 - A one day event for Informix users; New Updates: In addition to the technical sessions and exhibits listed below we have some exciting new updates: - All attendees will receive a WAIUG CD which includes the whole WAIUG web site, software from the International Informix User Group FTP site, parts of the IIUG web site. Seagate Software is sponsoring this special user group CD. - A special interest group startup session. We will have a session for special interest groups to get together and see if folks are interested in establishing SIG's. Some of the SIG's that have been suggested: - Communications Industry SIG - Large Database SIG - Informix/Peoplesoft SIG - Baltimore Area SIG - Richmond Area SIG ******************************************************************** Washington Area Informix User Group Forum 98 Solutions for Informix Users The Washington Area Informix Users Group invites you to attend our fourth one-day Technical Forum. This will be an exciting event that includes technical presentations, practical training essions, exhibits, demos, a public domain software diskette, and a chance to meet and network with other Informix database developers, rogrammers, DBAs, and users. Location: Fairview Park Marriott, 3111 Fairview Park Drive, Falls Church, VA Date: Friday - February 20, 1998 - 8:00 am to 5:00 pm At the last Forum we had over 230 participants, 16 speakers and 14 exhibitors. Participants said they learned more practical information in the Forum than in any other event. Invitations for this Forum are being sent to over 3,000 Informix users. We are planning the following sessions and exhibits: Keynote: Dr. Michael R. Stonebraker Dr. Michael R. Stonebraker is Chief Technology Officer of Informix Software and was co-founder and chief technology officer at Illustra. A noted expert in database management systems, operating systems, and expert systems, Dr. Stonebraker is Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley. Illustra represented the commercialization of Dr. Stonebraker's POSTGRES research project on the UC Berkeley campus. Dr. Stonebraker founded Ingres Corporation in 1980. Dr. Stonebraker recently authored the book entitled "Object-Relational DBMSs: The Next Great Wave." Technical Sessions Approaches to GUI Using Informix 4GL Architectures of the Future Data Warehouse & Informix Case Study INFORMIX-OnLine Performance Informix SQL Optimization New Features in INFORMIX-OnLine 7.3 Using INFORMIX-OnLine on Windows NT Using IUS DataBlade Object Oriented Features in Traditional Applications Using Java to Access Informix Web Database Development Current Exhibitors Advanced DataTools Corporation CrossZ Software SCH Technologies BMC Software FuGEN Technologies Silverrun Technologies, Inc. Brio Technology Informix Software, Inc. Space Works, Inc. Business Objects Intraware, Inc. Summit Data Group Cognos Corporation IQ Software Symantec Internet Tools Compuware Corporation Logic Works, Inc. Technology Investments, Inc. Lunch sponsored by Informix Registration is open to everyone for $30. Registration includes the Forum, a CD with user group public domain software, and lunch. Please contact John Petruzzi, Membership Director, to register at 703-490-4598. Space is limited and filling fast. Lester Knutsen President Washington Area Informix User Group ______________________________________________________________________ Lester Knutsen lester@advancedatatools.com Washington Area Informix User Group: www.iiug.org/~waiug/ ______________________________________________________________________