Re: those who went to kansas

> Report please. thanks. I think the conference was huge success, far exceeding the expectations of many. There were about 350 people attending the conference, more than double the 125 to 150 numbers from the last 3 conferences making this conference the largest IDS event since the IBM acquisition. Things started off on Sunday with the tutorial sessions, 8 1/2 day (4 in the morning, 4 in the afternoon) training classes that could be attended for an additional (reasonable) cost and 2 free all day vendor sponsored tutorials. After a full day of packed tutorial sessions we had the Sunday night welcome reception in the Exhibit hall with the vendors and an open bar (no drink tickets required for this conference, so people visited the bar early and often) Monday morning Ambuj Goyal, General Manager of IBM Information Management, got us started with a keynote address to a full room at 8 AM and then it was off to the technical sessions at 9:30 AM. 4 concurrent tracks: Admin and Performance, Applications and Tools, The Informix Edge and Advanced Support Topics were run through the day. Each technical session was 1 hour and there were 6 time slots each day (4 tracks * 6 time slots * 3 days = 72 total 1 hour technical sessions given by IDS developers, IDS support, IDS Business partners, IDS DBAs and IDS Application Developers). I was able to attend 2 great presentations: Top Tips Learned from Performance PMRs by Dr. Elisibeth Bach from IBM Advanced Support and Engine Hangs, Debugging Methods and Diagnostics Tools by Ron Privett from IBM Advanced Support. On Monday night the IDS development and support teams from the Lenexa labs came to the conference for the Developer/Support cook out (again, with open bar, dude.) This was a great opportunity for the IDS users and IDS developers/support to meet in person, the party officially ended at 8:30 PM but spilled out into the hallway and hotel bar after the Exhibit Hall was closed. Tuesday morning's keynote was again a full house and given by Arvind Krishna, Vice President of IBM Data Management, where he announced the release of Cheetah 2, IDS 11.5. This was great because now we could finally be released from the NDA that came with the beta versions of 11.5 and allowed the IDS development guys and gals to openly speak about writable secondaries, connection managers and failover arbitrators (and have you seen the 11.5 onconfig.std file?) More technical sessions during the day, I was able to attend Continuous Availability in IDS by some new guy named Madison Pruet, The High Performance Loader by Rob Beal, a Field Technical Specialist for IBM and Accelerating IDS with solidDB, IBM's newly acquired in memory database product that has plans to be available as an front end cache for IDS to further improve OLTP performance. On Tuesday everyone loaded up in chartered buses and went to a comedy club for a BBQ dinner, drinks and stand up. Wednesday was the last day but it was still a full day (literally, technical sessions ran until 5:40 PM and discussions continued in the hall as the hotel started cleaning up chairs and what not). At 8 AM we had the IIUG Annual General Meeting where IIUG Director's Awards were given to Madison Pruet (that new guy from IBM) and Eric Herber (father of the Informix-Zone, all around good guy and really dedicated to the growth of IDS). After the IIUG meeting which included a panel discussion with the people heading up development, marketing, support and partners it was off to the final full day of technical sessions. On Wednesday I made it to Making your Engine Hum with ALICE and other BTSCANNER tips by Mark Jamison of IBM, IDS Performance Tuning by Art Kagel (you may have heard of him), Modern Information Security for the Internet by Tom Beebe from Advanced Data Tools and finally Optimizing Linux of IDS by Alexey Sonkin from CDIC. So that's the play by play of what went down each day but there is still so much more to talk about. The food was actually tasty and not just barely edible like most conference food (did you get pork tenderloin or panko bread crumb encrusted chicken in Denver, Tampa or San Jose? me either.) We were given breakfast each day, a buffet style lunch with a choice of two deserts (you could have both, you could have 10 if you wanted), a sugary snack in the afternoon to help make it through the long day and something good to eat at each nightly function. There was always plenty of sodas, water and fresh brewed coffee from the starbucks in the halls from 7 AM to 6 PM. The fact that this was an IDS only event made it something special. If you've been to the previous conferences you know what it is like to try and find the Informix folks in the crowd or to try to find the vendors that speak Informix in the Exhibit Hall. This year there were no "so, do you use Informix?" or "does your product work with Informix?" getting to know you type questions being asked. Instead people were asking "how do you use Informix?" or "how does your product work with Informix?" and that was a great thing to see. It was great having the event close to the Lenexa labs because this meant new faces from IDS development and support could come and give presentations we've never seen before. I have been lucky enough to attend the previous conferences and it was great to see the new people and new presentations and I don't think I was the only one hungry for content as each session I went to was full of people wanting to learn. At the start of the second day someone asked me if I knew where to find more legal pads because he had already filled the one given to him in his conference bag with notes from the sessions. Of course there was free certification testing which offered the dreaded v11 certification test, v7, v9, v10 and 4gl certification testing. There was the chance to try the Open Admin Tool and give feedback. There was the chance the corner your favorite IDS developer and get the inside scoop on how they want to make KAIO on linux more efficient. Conference goers had the opportunity to grab as much conference schwag as they could carry home with them including an "IDS is Everywhere" poster from IBM, swiss army knives, frisbees, bags, CDs, clips and Cheetahs. I think the Conference Planning Committee did a wonderful job putting on this event in their personal time. This group of people is the perfect combination of intelligent, dedicated and crazy and they are already talking about scheduling the first CPC meeting for the 2009 conference. You can bet the 2009 conference will be bigger and better. For those that went - what did I leave out? For those that didn't go - Why not and will we see you in 2009? Andrew

Andrew Ford wrote: >> Report please. thanks. > > I think the conference was huge success, far exceeding the expectations of > many. > Tuesday morning's keynote was again a full house and given by Arvind > Krishna, Vice President of IBM Data Management, where he announced the > release of Cheetah 2, IDS 11.5. This was great because now we could finally > be released from the NDA that came with the beta versions of 11.5 and > allowed the IDS development guys and gals to openly speak about writable > secondaries, connection managers and failover arbitrators (and have you seen > the 11.5 onconfig.std file?) More technical sessions during the day, I was > able to attend Continuous Availability in IDS by some new guy named Madison > Pruet, New Guy???

On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Madison Pruet <mpruet1@verizon.net> wrote: > Andrew Ford wrote: > > [...] I was > > able to attend Continuous Availability in IDS by some new guy named Madison > > Pruet, > > New Guy??? I think it is just a mis-spelling for IIUGGIE (however that's meant to be spelt). On which, by the way, congratulations. -- Jonathan Leffler #include <disclaimer.h> Email: jleffler@earthlink.net, jleffler@us.ibm.com Guardian of DBD::Informix v2008.0229 -- http://dbi.perl.org/ "Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves, for we shall never cease to be amused." NB: Please do not use this email for correspondence. I don't necessarily read it every week, even.

Andrew just wanted to know if you were reading him ;-) > -----Original Message----- > From: informix-list-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:informix-list- > bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of Madison Pruet > Sent: Saturday 03 May 2008 20:21 > To: informix-list@iiug.org > Subject: Re: those who went to kansas > > Andrew Ford wrote: > >> Report please. thanks. > > > > I think the conference was huge success, far exceeding the > expectations of > > many. > > > Tuesday morning's keynote was again a full house and given by Arvind > > Krishna, Vice President of IBM Data Management, where he announced > the > > release of Cheetah 2, IDS 11.5. This was great because now we could > finally > > be released from the NDA that came with the beta versions of 11.5 and > > allowed the IDS development guys and gals to openly speak about > writable > > secondaries, connection managers and failover arbitrators (and have > you seen > > the 11.5 onconfig.std file?) More technical sessions during the day, > I was > > able to attend Continuous Availability in IDS by some new guy named > Madison > > Pruet, > > New Guy??? > _______________________________________________ > Informix-list mailing list > Informix-list@iiug.org > http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list

Jean Georges Perrin wrote: > Andrew just wanted to know if you were reading him ;-) Everyone in R&D had a good laugh when reading his posting... ;-) > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: informix-list-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:informix-list- >> bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of Madison Pruet >> Sent: Saturday 03 May 2008 20:21 >> To: informix-list@iiug.org >> Subject: Re: those who went to kansas >> >> Andrew Ford wrote: >>>> Report please. thanks. >>> I think the conference was huge success, far exceeding the >> expectations of >>> many. >>> Tuesday morning's keynote was again a full house and given by Arvind >>> Krishna, Vice President of IBM Data Management, where he announced >> the >>> release of Cheetah 2, IDS 11.5. This was great because now we could >> finally >>> be released from the NDA that came with the beta versions of 11.5 and >>> allowed the IDS development guys and gals to openly speak about >> writable >>> secondaries, connection managers and failover arbitrators (and have >> you seen >>> the 11.5 onconfig.std file?) More technical sessions during the day, >> I was >>> able to attend Continuous Availability in IDS by some new guy named >> Madison >>> Pruet, >> New Guy??? >> _______________________________________________ >> Informix-list mailing list >> Informix-list@iiug.org >> http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list >

On 6 May, 15:09, Madison Pruet <mpru...@verizon.net> wrote: > Jean Georges Perrin wrote: > > Andrew just wanted to know if you were reading him ;-) > > Everyone in R&D had a good laugh when reading his posting...   ;-) > > > > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: informix-list-boun...@iiug.org [mailto:informix-list- > >> boun...@iiug.org] On Behalf Of Madison Pruet > >> Sent: Saturday 03 May 2008 20:21 > >> To: informix-l...@iiug.org > >> Subject: Re: those who went to kansas > > >> Andrew Ford wrote: > >>>> Report please. thanks. > >>> I think the conference was huge success, far exceeding the > >> expectations of > >>> many. > >>> Tuesday morning's keynote was again a full house and given by Arvind > >>> Krishna, Vice President of IBM Data Management, where he announced > >> the > >>> release of Cheetah 2, IDS 11.5.  This was great because now we could > >> finally > >>> be released from the NDA that came with the beta versions of 11.5 and > >>> allowed the IDS development guys and gals to openly speak about > >> writable > >>> secondaries, connection managers and failover arbitrators (and have > >> you seen > >>> the 11.5 onconfig.std file?)  More technical sessions during the day, > >> I was > >>> able to attend Continuous Availability in IDS by some new guy named > >> Madison > >>> Pruet, > >> New Guy??? > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Informix-list mailing list > >> Informix-l...@iiug.org > >>http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - Where are the slides for this then?

> Where are the slides for this then? I am told all slides for the 2008 IIUG conference will be in the members area of the IIUG web site later this week. Andrew

david@smooth1.co.uk wrote: > On 6 May, 15:09, Madison Pruet <mpru...@verizon.net> wrote: >> Jean Georges Perrin wrote: >>> Andrew just wanted to know if you were reading him ;-) >> Everyone in R&D had a good laugh when reading his posting... ;-) >> >> >> >> >> More technical sessions during the day, >>>> I was >>>>> able to attend Continuous Availability in IDS by some new guy named >>>> Madison >>>>> Pruet, >>>> New Guy??? >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Informix-list mailing list >>>> Informix-l...@iiug.org >>>> http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list- Hide quoted text - >> - Show quoted text - > > Where are the slides for this then? I was not able to submit the presentation prior to the conference because the information was still under a NDA at that time. The presentation has been shipped to IIUG for inclusion in the members area.

Andrew Ford wrote: >> Where are the slides for this then? > > I am told all slides for the 2008 IIUG conference will be in the members > area of the IIUG web site later this week. > > Andrew > > Cool . . . can't wait . . JWC