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I think you were in the wrong sessions :)
being in the 40-ish age bracket myself, unless my eyes deceived me, I
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ht I saw an interesting number of younger folks.
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seriously, if you have contacts at universities or other youth oriented
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ues and would like some focus there, get in touch with me. I had some
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ous discussions with IBM at the conference regarding this very topic.
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thanks much,
Norma Jean Sebastian
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Subject: AW: Musings on the IIUG Conference 2008
I totally agree, with my nearly 40 years I felt very young. But who says
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at 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
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Gesendet: Mi 07.05.2008 22:27
An: informix-list@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Musings on the IIUG Conference 2008
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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 im****tant thing to counter if Informix is to regain its pomp under the
renewed vigour of IBM's promotion.
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