System iNetwork

February 2010

February 8, 2010 7:50 AM

Northeast User Groups Conference Celebrates Its 20th

If you live in the lovely northeastern U.S., home to one of my favorite authors and favorite, sustainable ice cream makers, you're in for a treat (not ice cream, unfortunately). The Northeast User Groups Conference (NEUGC), the largest IBM i (Power Systems, iSeries, AS/400) conference in the Northeast, is celebrating its 20th anniversary conference April 12-14 at the Sheraton Hotel in Framingham, Mass. NEUGC is a consortium of eight IBM i-centric user groups in the Northeast from Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

The Northeast User Groups Conference provides IBM i education and training for a basic $500 conference fee, which includes two days of 80 breakout sessions and hands-on lab experience. There also will be a vendor exposition, and meals are included in the conference fee. The breakout sessions will cover the latest IBM i announcements, RPG, programming tools, database (including SQL and DB2 Web Query), systems management, security, upgrades, tuning, backup and recovery, web development (web services, PHP and Java) and a management and professional development track. Speakers include IBM's George Farr, Dawn May, Tracy Smith, and Dave Taylor, as well as John Earl, Jon Paris, Susan Gantner, Skip Marchesani, Scott Klement, Pete Massiello, Dennis McCarth, and John Valance from the i community. For an additional charge the conference also offers in-depth workshop labs on the first day. You can register online at the NEUGC website: neugc.org.

--Rita-Lyn Sanders, Senior Industry Editor

Posted by rsanders on February 8, 2010 at 7:50 AM | Comments (0)

February 1, 2010 10:59 AM

The New Oracle-Sun Combo and IBM Both Ready to Rumble

With all the Oracle and Sun acquisition talk in the news, along with Oracle offering up a webcast and details about how Oracle and Sun will transform the IT industry, IBM wasn't going to let the timing pass: IBM fired off a quick press release about how more than 200 customers moved critical business workloads to IBM systems and storage from Sun and HP systems in the fourth quarter of 2009. IBM also unveiled new software that helps customers accelerate and automate their migration projects.

The good news for businesses here, of course, is the potential for some serious enterprise-level competition.

Posted by cmaxcer on February 1, 2010 at 10:59 AM | Comments (0)