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. ;-)

But: I was (positive!) surprised about the percentage of women attending the meeting.


Joerg Volz
(sorry for the big automatic disclaimer, but in Germany it´s law)


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Von: informix-list-bounces@iiug.org im Auftrag von Neil Truby
Gesendet: Mi 07.05.2008 22:27
An: informix-list@iiug.org
Betreff: Re: Musings on the IIUG Conference 2008



<mark.scranton@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:b3cdbbd9-8ce3-459d-8dfe-4e4f7350a6ea@c58g2000hsc.googlegroups.com...

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.


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