AZ Informix Users Group Meeting

Arizona Informix Users Group News Letter October 1994 INTRODUCTION ------------ The Arizona Informix Users Group (AIUG) was formed in July of 1993 with an initial attendance of 40 people. Since that meeting, we have averaged 25 people at each of our quarterly meetings. The AIUG was formed to provide a forum for the members to exchange ideas on how to use the informix products, convey product enhancements and concerns to informix, build contacts, get hands-on demonstrations of new products, and to establish a knowledge base to draw upon while performing their duties at work. The officers elected at the initial meeting were: Bob Baskett President 602-655-3211 rzbj40@email.sps.mot.com David Suess VP of Membership 602-262-7509 Darin Melin VP of Programs 602-655-3627 rp29560@email.sps.mot.com For the coming year, we will be changing to a new structure. The new format will include a group president and 4 members of the board of directors. MEMBERSHIP ---------- Up to this time, the group has operated without membership dues thanks to Informix providing the meeting facilities and refreshments. In order to cover our expenses, we will be implementing membership dues for 1995. The membership dues will be $50.00 for individuals, and $200.00 per company up to 5 people. For information about membership, please contact David Suess at the number listed above. USER SURVEY ----------- Over the past year, we have tried to introduce the members to the new informix products and several third-party vendor tools and services. Our continued success depends on the feed back from the groups members. Please complete the attached survey and bring it to the next meeting or mail it to: Darin Melin Motorla, Inc. 2200 W. Broadway, MD M300 Mesa, AZ 85202 NEXT MEETING AGENDA ------------------- The next meeting will be on Thursday, October 20th from 7:00 to 9:00 pm. The meeting will be held at the Informix offices, 2425 E. Camelback Road B1 Conference Room, Phoenix, Az 85016. 7:00 - 7:15 Opening Remarks 7:15 - 8:00 Mr. Martin Cagan - VP Engineering @ Continuus Software Corp (formerly Caseware, Inc) "How CSC incorporates the Informix products" 8:00 - 8:15 Break 8:15 - 8:30 Nominations of Officers for 1994 -President (chairman of the Board of Directors) -Treasurer/Membership (member of the Board of Directors) -3 members of Board of Directors 8:30 - 8:45 Break 8:45 - 9:00 Election of Officers for 1994 CONTINUUS SOFTWARE CORP ----------------------- Speaking at the October AZ Informix Users Group meeting will be Mr. Martin Cagan, Vice-President of Engineering and Mr. Jeff Burt, Sales. They will be providing insights into how Continuus integrates and utilizes the Informix products into their software. Continuus Software Corporation (formerly Caseware, Inc) of Irvine, CA is a leading provider of client/server change and configuration management systems for software development teams. The company develops and markets Continuus/CM and Continuus/PT, a comprehensive, process-oriented solution used to manage the process of sofware development and ongoing maintance. Continuus sets a new industry standard in change and configuration management, process support, ease of use, flexibility, and scalability to help sofware developers improve team productivity, product quality, and time to market. The product line for Continuus Software has been developed to help manage the entire process life cycle of developing and maintaining software, including: -Confuguration management -Problem tracking -CM methodology support In addition, this system is a true object-oriented, open client/server architecture that supports a wide variety of SCM methodologies, source languages, platforms and operating systems. ELECTION OF OFFICERS -------------------- This year the Arizona Informix Users Group will be changing the configuration of is officer structure. As you are well aware, the current structure is: POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES ---------------------------- --------------------------------- President Overall direction Vice-President of Membership Newsletter, membership, user list Vice-President of Programs Meeting organization, subjects This next year, the AZ Informix Users Group will be re-organized in a different manner. The changes are: POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES --------------------------- --------------------------------- President Overall direction Director-Membership Newsletter, membership, user list Director-Programs Meeting organization, subjects Director-Programs Meeting organization, subjects Director-Programs Meeting organization, subjects These changes reflect the desire to move forward and provide the AIUG with the following commitments of: 1- 6 AIUG meetings per year (instead of 4). 2- Production of a newsletter to all members on a bi-monthly basis. 3- Correspondence with all new users (companies) with invitations to the AIUG meetings. 4- Increase the membership into the AIUG. 5- Better beverages. Nominations and voting of persons for any office (people can be nominated for more than one position) will be made on Oct. 20, 1994 at the AIUG meeting. If you are nominated and not there, oh well to bad for the AIUG. Therefore, persons wanting to be nominated are requested to attend. TRAINING CLASSES ---------------- Informix currently has the following classes scheduled for the Phoenix. Relational Database Design Oct 11-12 Structured Query Language Oct 13-14 Developing Apps with 4GL Oct 17-21 Managing and Optimizing Informix Databases Nov 09-11 On-Line v5.0 System Administration Nov 14-18 Developing Apps with ISQL Dec 12-14 Also, Motorola is interested in getting a list of potential attendees to either an On-line 6.0 or 7.0 Systems Administration class which could be held in later this year. Please respond to Darin Melin at (602)655-3627 or email to "melin@email.sps.mot.com". INFORMIX ON-THE-INTERNET ------------------------ Here is an sub-listing of sites known to contain archives of Informix-related files and documentation. This listing is kept in the file /pub/informix/doc/archive_sites in the FTP archive on mathcs.emory.edu (see also quasar.ucar.edu). Name: mathcs.emory.edu IP: 128.140.2.1 Location: United States, Eastern time zone, GMT - 5 Access: Anonymous FTP Directory: /pub/informix Contact: Walt Hultgren <walt@rmy.emory.edu> Contents: Utilities, documentation and a complete archive of informix-list and comp.databases.informix articles. Also mirrors many of the files on das13.snide.com and kcbbs.gen.nz. Desc: The system's full domain-style name is emory.mathcs.emory.edu. Note that this is not the same system as the home of the Informix mailing list. The firs