<mark.scranton@gmail.com> wrote in message
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One 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.