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I totally agree, with my nearly 40 years I felt very young. But who says =
that only the young guys can do IT?
So think positive, when the younger DBAs have a family, kids and =
rediscover their hobbys again, they will move from Oracle to Informix to =
get the time they need. ;-)
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But: I was (positive!) surprised about the percentage of women attending =
the meeting.
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Von: informix-list-bounces@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
im Auftrag von Neil Truby
Gesendet: Mi 07.05.2008 22:27
An: informix-list@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Musings on the IIUG Conference 2008
<mark.scranton@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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observation that I omitted for some reason, but several people =
commented
upon it, was the high average age of the attendees. Robert, who also
attended from Ardenta, is in his his early thirties and I wuld say he =
was
very comfortably in the bottom decile of the age distribution. I have =
one
Informix specialist at Ardenta who is still not 30, but he seems to be =
an
aberraton in this respsect, and a good 10-15 years younger than the =
average
Informix expert.
I think this is quite a worrying demographic for Informix - clearly many
years have gone past since youngsters think it worth studying - and this =
is
an important thing to counter if Informix is to regain its pomp under =
the
renewed vigour of IBM's promotion.
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