The Washington (DC) Area Informix Users Group (WAIUG) completed the major event for IBM-Informix users on the east coast for the year 2002.  Forum 2002 was a two-day user group technical conference hosted by the Washington, Boston, Carolinas, New York, Philadelphia and Atlanta Informix Users Groups.  This was our fifth user group technical forum.  
 

The Washington Area Informix Users Group would like to thank all our Sponsors, Exhibitors, Speakers and the many volunteers who made this all possible.

Pictures from the forum

Speaker presentations and downloads

Keynote Presentations:

• The Future of IBM Informix by Don Top, VP, IBM Informix Product Development
• The Future of Informix Technology by Paul Taylor, IBM
• The International Informix Users Group by Jerry Hamilton, IIUG President

Friday – Technical Sessions:

• IDS Internals and Disk Structures.  Everything you never knew! by Art Kagel, Bloomberg, L.P. (extended 2 hr session)
• 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 (extended 2 hr session)
• Building Secure Web Applications with IDS by Michael Chaney, ChainLink
• Enterprise Replication by Madison Pruet, IBM

Saturday – Seven ½ 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
• Managing and Tuning your IDS Server using the Sysmaster database by Lester Knutsen, Advanced DataTools Corpation
• How to Spatially Enable Your IBM Informix Database by Chris Bosch, IBM
• Bringing IDS Internals to the Surface by Mark Scranton, IBM

Sponsors:

Premier Sponsor - IBM Data Management - Informix 

Gold Sponsor - Four J's Development Tools 
Now GSA-certified

Exhibitors:

• Advanced DataTools Corporation 
• Artinsoft
• Brio Software
• Fourth Generation Software 
• Gillani, Inc.
• Hewlett Packard
• International Informix Users Group 
• Querix
• ServerMetrics
• Sun Microsystems 
• UDT Consulting
• Xtivia