New England Informix User Group

January 1998 Dear New England Informix User: On behalf of the New England Informix User Group Steering Committee, we extend this invitation to you to attend the next New England Informix User Group Meeting on Thursday, Feb. 19, 1998 from 8:30 AM to 12:30 PM at Cambridge Technology 219 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA We are pleased to have two senior executives speakers from Informix Corporation, and possibly are the only such user group to be lucky enough to get both of these people at the same time. The first will be Michael Stonebraker, Chief Technology Officer of Informix Corporation and founder of Illustra Corporation. The second is Don Hunt, Vice President of North American End User Operations of Informix Corporation. Mike will be speaking on the future of Informix from a Technical direction and Don will be speaking on the future of Informix from a business direction. Our Sponsor - SuperNova (http://www.supernova.com) is headquartered in New York. The SuperNova Informix 4GL Extender has been developed to offer you a far more attractive alternative. The I4GL Extender, allows you to superimpose a graphical interface on character-based I4GL applications, and at the same time gives you the ability to add functionality to the new graphical application more quickly and easily than ever before. Once extended, the original application can also be migrated onto platforms, such as Windows NT, not supported by native I4GL. Most important, the I4GL Extender makes all of these improvements possible without requiring developers to rewrite the core business logic in their I4GL applications. SuperNova has established a prestigious customer base with over 60,000 licenses worldwide. Other topics and speakers for this meeting are: Beth Wolfset, (one of our favorite users) Data Base Modeling with Informix Informix Representative Overview of the new Informix 7.3 and other planned release items. We would also like to bring to your attention our web site. It can be seen at: http: //www.brainiac.com/neiug Here you can check out the latest news of the New England Informix User group, including register and logistics of the next meeting, agenda, directions, and links to the International Informix User group. The web site was also created to help us maintain an electronic e-mail mailing list to all the members. If you wish to be added to that electronic mailing list, please visit the site and fill out the form. Although membership and attendance is free to our meetings, we do request that you please register so we can have an accurate count for the complimentary continental breakfast courtesy of InfoModelers, Inc. You may register for the meeting via New England Informix User Group Web Page (preferred) or by calling Carol Gilpatrick at Informix in Burlington, MA office at (617) 273-0600. We do request that you please register before Feb. 10th, 1998 and having both Mike Stonebraker and Don Hunt of Informix at the same meeting, we anticipate a very large crowd. Attendance will be limited to the first 150 people! We look forward to seeing you on Feb. 19th 1998! The Informix New England Steering Committee Stuart Litel, Independent Consultant / Database Specialist Robert Columbo, Independent Consultant Dennis Ippolito, Northeast District Support Manager, Informix Corporation Robert Micci, Northeast District Sales Manager, Informix Corporation