Re: IBM Data Management Technical Conference, Las Vegas, w/c 26th October

In <bobc4v$1c4ovo$1@ID-162943.news.uni-berlin.de> article, Neil Truby mentioned that: : I saw a post last week asking for news from the conference, and asking who : was there. : : - A decent amount of Informix content, relatively well scheduled. Unlike : last year's conference the Informix content was well integrated into the : overall conference. The only 2 problems I experienced with the scheduling was (a) the conference room selection (mentioned earlier); and (b) the times when 2 Informix sessions went head-to-head while other time periods had no Infomrix sessions at all. One time period in particular pitted Mark Scranton against Dan Wood, both discussing "Advanced Tuning Techniques" -- Mark's obviously being more "internals" than Dan's. Still, it would have been nice to attend BOTH. : - There seems to be a general acceptance now that the battle for the : promotion and advertising of Informix as a separate product set is lost, and : that the IIUG needs to concentrate on advocacy with IBM on making the lot of : the remaining users as comfortable as possible.