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Informix Users Group Forum 2002

Solutions for Informix Users A Two-Day User Group Technical Conference

Location:

Fairview Park Marriott

3111 Fairview Park Drive, Falls Church, VA

Date:

Friday and Saturday

November 8-9, 2002, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm

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Forum 2002

• The Washington (DC) Area Informix Users Group (WAIUG) would like to invite you to attend the major event for IBM-Informix users on the east coast for the year 2002.

• Forum 2002 is a two-day user group technical conference hosted by the

– Washington Area Informix Users Group

– Boston Informix Users Group

– Atlanta Informix Users Groups

– Carolinas Informix Users Group

– New York Informix Users Group

– Philadelphia Informix Users Group

• The largest concentration of Informix users and the most active user groups in the world are located on the east coast of the US. This will be the key event for Informix users on the east coast.

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Forum 2002

• This is our fifth user group technical forum.

• Visit http://www.iiug.org/waiug/present to view information about our previous events.

• Our past four forums have enjoyed excellent turnout, averaging 250 attendees and 16 sessions and many exhibitors.

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Forum 2002 Keynote PresentationsFriday:

• The Future of IBM Informix by Don Top, VP, IBM Informix Product Development

• The Future of Informix Technology by Paul Taylor, IBM

Saturday:

• The International Informix Users Group by Jerry Hamilton, IIUG President and Fred Hubbard, Managing Director

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Forum 2002 – Friday 12 Technical Sessions• Special Extended Session (2 hrs) - IDS Internals and disk structures. Everything

you never knew! by Art Kagel, Bloomberg, L.P.

• Using Perl and DBI/DBD with Informix Databases by Darryl Priest, Piper Rudnick LLP

• Windows, Web, and Web Services for I4GL Applications by Don Bizell, Four J’s Development Tools

• IDS Troubleshooting by Joseph Lobo, IBM

• Informix 9.4 by Jonathan Leffler, IBM

• Websphere Meets Informix by Marty Lurie, IBM

• Comparison of DB2 UDB and Informix Data Administration Tools for Unix by Nalini Subu, Home Depot

• (Not) A “DB2 IDS Comparison” by Serge Rielau, IBM Canada

• Data Blades, or creating a quick bladelet to improve db performance by Michael Chaney, ChainLink

• Enterprise Replication by Madison Pruet, IBM

• And more to be announced….

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Forum 2002 – Saturday Six 1/2 day Tutorials• Upgrade to 9.3 by Carlton Doe, IBM

• Windows, Web, and Web Services for I4GL Applications by Don Bizell, Four J’s Development Tools

• DSS and HPL by Jack Parker, Artentech

• SQL Performance Tuning by Kevin Fennimore, UCI Consulting

• Exploring the Sysmaster database to manage and tune your Informix Server (Updated for Informix IDS 9.3) by Lester Knutsen, Advanced DataTools Corp.

• How to Spatially Enable Your IBM Informix Database by Chris Bosch, IBM

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Forum 2002 CD

• Every participant will get a CD with:

– Software from the IIUG web site

– Free software from selected vendors

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Sponsors and Exhibitors

• Premier Sponsor - IBM Data Management

• Gold Sponsor - Four J's Development Tools

• Exhibitors:– AGS Ltd

– Advanced DataTools Corporation

– Artinsoft

– Brio Software

– Fourth Generation Software

– Gillani, Inc.

– Hewlett Packard

– International Informix Users Group

– Querix

– ServerMetrics

– Sun Microsystems

– Xtivia

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Forum 2002 – Registration Information

Pre-Registration: $100 - must be received by November 1, 2002

Onsite Registration: $120

- registrations after November 1, 2002

For additional and registration please visit our web site at:

– http://www.iiug.org/waiug