My colleague Suma writes to tell me about the San Jose Tech fair on May 28th. I hope to get down there for it.

Free Informix Tech Fair



Talks include the following topics:

• New Data Warehouse Offerings
• New Storage Optimization Features
• Virtualization & Cloud Computing





Speakers:

2 Informix IDS Architects
IBM Informix Engineers








Demos

Using IDS in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud





Free Consulting

Having a problem or question about Informix?

My colleague Suma writes to tell me about the San Jose Tech fair on May 28th. I hope to get down there for it.

Free Informix Tech Fair

Talks include the following topics:

• New Data Warehouse Offerings
• New Storage Optimization Features
• Virtualization & Cloud Computing





Speakers:

2 Informix IDS Architects

IBM Informix Engineers








Demos

Using IDS in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud





Free Consulting

Having a problem or question about Informix?

Since other people have been much better than I at blogging and liveblogging the event, I thought I'd calm down for a couple of days and collect my thoughts before blogging this.

So, the key things were:

1. The organisation was incredible. Everything just worked and the whole board, but especially Cindy Lichtenauer deserve praise for the flawless deployment of everything.

2. The presentations were excellent. I learned something worthwhile out of every single presentation I delivered (even my own, because it turned out that Madison Pruet and Cary Wahlmeier came to watch and were able to answer all the difficult questions! :-) There was a really wide range of topics and they were all really useful.

The Amazon Web Services Blog has an interesting new article about using IBM Informix Dynamic Server in the Amazon EC2 Computing Cloud. The blog entry has links to flash presentations discussing the following topics: