Informix User Forum 2006 - Pictures and Presentations are on the website

The Informix User Group Technical Conference - Friday and Saturday, December 8-9, 2006 The Washington Area Informix User Group (WAIUG) based in Washington, DC, and the Southeast Informix Users Group (SEIUG), based in Atlanta, GA, teamed up once again to present Informix User Forum 2006. This was the premiere Informix regional user group technical conference in the world. This was a user conference planned and run by Informix users for Informix users. I have been putting together the Washington Area Informix Users Group Forums since 1994 and this year's was the best event we have done to date. We had over 140 participants from 10 countries and 22 states in the US. There were 13 sponsors with products for the Informix user community. There were 32 technical presentations by Informix developers and DBAs from around the world. We had the best support ever from IBM with keynotes from the top two IBM executives in charge of Information Management Software: * Ambuj Goyal, General Manager of IBM Information Management * Arvid Krishna, Vice President of Database Servers, IBM Information Management We also had the Informix Future Directions Road Map presentation from: * Jerry Keesee, Director Informix Development Last year the message was very clear from IBM that Informix is a critical product and will continue to have a great future. This year we got the details on Cheetah, the next generation of IDS. The message from the users attending was also very clear: no other product does the job of Informix and we are loyal to what works. To view the results and presentations from Forum 2006 visit: http://www.iiug.org/waiug/ Pictures are available for all who missed it at: http://www.iiug.org/waiug/present/Forum2006/Forum2006Pictures.html Many thanks to IBM, the IIUG and all the sponsors who provided support, all the speakers, and all the volunteers who provided the hard work that made Forum 2006 happen. Happy New Year - Lester -- ______________________________________________________________________ Lester Knutsen lester@advancedatatools.com Advanced DataTools Corporation Voice: 703-256-0267 x102 Visit our Web page: http://www.advancedatatools.com Washington Area IBM-Informix User Group: http://www.iiug.org/~waiug/ ______________________________________________________________________