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Informix User Forum 2006 - 2 day Informix Technica

Posted By: Lester Knutsen
Date: Sunday, 3 December 2006, at 6:56 p.m.

A two-day 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, are teaming up once again to present Informix User Forum 2006. This will be the premiere Informix regional user group technical conference in the world. This is 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 last year's was the best event we have done to date. We had over 170 participants from 8 countries and 30 states in the US. There were 14 sponsors with products for the Informix user community. There were 32 technical presentations, by speakers who are Informix developers from IBM and DBA users from around the world. The message was very clear from IBM that Informix is a critical product and will continue to have a great future. 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 for last year's forum visit: http://www.iiug.org/waiug/present/Forum2005/Forum2005.html

This years Forum looks to be even better then last year.

We are very please to announce our Keynote Speakers
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* Friday, 8:00am December 8, 2006 – Ambuj Goyal, General Manager of IBM Information Management
* Saturday, 8:30am December 9,2006 - Arvid Krishna, Vice President of Database Servers, IBM Information Management

These are the top two executives for IBM Information Management and Database Servers. We are very please with IBM's support for our Forum 2006.

Forum 2006 will include:
* Technical presentations by the top Informix Speakers * Three tracks covering:

- Database Tools and Applications

- Informix Administration and Performance

- DB2 Administration and Performance
* Exhibitors showing products for Informix users
* CD with public domain software, and
* A chance to meet and network with database developers, programmers, DBAs, and users.

Tracks and Sessions:
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Database Tools and Applications:

* Auditing with IDS by Jonathan Leffler, IBM

* Building Informix Data-Driven Applications with .Net by Sean Durity, CornerCap Investment Counsel

* Calling Informix 4gl from Java 2 EE by Sergio Ferreira, IIUG

* Developing Informix Applications in Python by Carsten Haese, Unique Systems, Inc.

* Introduction to Java Development with IDS by Jean Georges Perrin, IIUG

* PHP Programming with the New PDO Informix Module by Thomas Beebe, Advanced DataTools Corporation

* Using Perl with Your Databases by Darryl Priest, DLA Piper US LLP

* WebSphere Information Integrator Federation with DB2 and Informix by Sathish Sadagopan, IBMInformix

Informix Performance Tuning and Administration

* IDS Features Update by Jacques Roy, IBM

* IDS Performance Tuning by Carlton Doe, IBM

* IDS Replication Tool Kit by Madison Pruet, IBM

* Informix, DB2 and Oracle, Side by Side on Linux by Jack Parker, DBAgnostics

* Informix Data Storage and Data In's and Out's by James Edmiston, Quest Information Systems, Inc.

* Introduction to Replication in IDS by Nancy Balsbaugh, Cisco Systems

* SQL Performance Tuning by Kevin Fennimore, UCI Consulting

* The Art of Reorganization by Jerry Hamilton, Fleishman-Hillard

* UNIX Tools and Scripts to Monitor Informix IDS by Lester Knutsen, Advanced DataTools Corporation

DB2 Performance Tuning and Administration

* DB2 Active-Active Clustering by Dwaine Snow, IBM

* DB2 Performance Tuning - A Practical Approach by Jim Cleveland, Bluepoint Consulting, Inc.

* DB2 Version 9 New Features by Keith Gardenhire, IBM

* DBA Cross Training - Informix & Unix DB2 by Kate Tomchik, The Home Depot

* How To Expand DB2 from a Single Partition to a Multiple Partition Database, a Step by Step Guide by Warren Donovan, SAIC

* Index Design for the Busy Database System by Larry Kintisch, ABLE Information Services

* Performance for SOA Java DB2 Applications by David Beulke, Pragmatic Solutions, Inc.

* SQL on Fire - Part 1 by Serge Rielau, IBM Canada

* SQL on Fire - Part 2 by Serge Rielau, IBM Canada

Premiere Sponsor Presentations

* Administration and Performance Tuning with Server Studio/Sentinel

* Converting Character 4GL Apps to Windows GUI Using Genero by Tom Smith, Fourth Generation Software

* DB2 using Sun's servers by Phil Philbin, Sun Microsystems

* FourGen: How to Improve Productivity on IDS or DB2 by Syed Kamal, Gillani

* Four J’s Development Tools by Four J's

* Informix Application Performance Tuning with DBSonar by Young Tan, Cobrasonic Software, Inc.

* Querix by Querix

The list of planned sessions maybe subject to change.

Schedule:
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* Friday - December 8, 2006

o 7:00-8:00 Early Registration

o 8:00-9:00 Keynote - Ambuj Goyal, General Manager of IBM Information Management

o 9:00-5:30 - Sessions and Exhibit Hal

* Saturday - December 9, 2006

o 8:30 - 9:30 Keynote - Arvid Krishna, Vice President of Database Servers, IBM Information Management

o 9:30 - 4:30 - Sessions and Exhibit Hall

o 4:30 - Forum Close

Key Sponsors:
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* International Informix Users Group
* IBM Information Management Software

Sponsors:
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* Advanced DataTools Corporation
* AGS Ltd. (Premier Sponsor)
* CobraSonic Software Inc. (Premier Sponsor)
* Four J’s Development Tools Inc.(Premier Sponsor)
* Fourth Generation Software (Premier Sponsor)
* Gillani, Inc (Premier Sponsor)
* Kazer
* M Systems International, Inc.
* One Point Solutions
* Querix Ltd. (Premier Sponsor)
* Sun Microsystems (Premier Sponsor)

Registration fee: $120 - this is the best value ever for a 2 day technical seminar!! Please register and bring your payment with you.

Special Hotel Arrangement:

The discounted hotel rate from Marriott for Forum 2006 has expired. To maintain the discount rate, we prepaid a set of rooms at the Forum 2006 rate of $94 per night plus tax for Thursday December 8 and Friday December 9, 2006. To obtain one of these rooms, please email waiug@iiug.org or call Enid Yu, at 703-256-0267 x107 and sign up for a room. We will need a credit card to hold the room.

Special offer for International attendees - FREE Registration
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Send us a photocopy or proof of your round ticket from outside the US and attend Forum 2006 for FREE! We are a simple non-profit, volunteer group with no administrative staff to handle international payments, so we decided to make it simple. If you can get a ticket, hotel and any visa requirements then you can attend the Forum for free. To qualify you must:
1) register online for Forum 2006
2) make your own travel, hotel and visa requirements (sorry, we cannot help with this)
3) mail your registration and instead of a check, send a photocopy or proof of round trip ticket from outside the US.

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For more information visit our web site at: http://www.iiug.org/waiug/present/Forum2006/Forum2006.html
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Lester Knutsen lester@advancedatatools.com
Advanced DataTools Corporation Voice: 703-256-0267 x102
Visit our Web page: http://www.advancedatatools.com

Hyperion/Brio Mid Atlantic User Group:

http://www.advancedatatools.com/HyperionUserGroup/index.html
Washington Area IBM-Informix User Group:

http://www.iiug.org/~waiug/
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