RE: Technical Dev Conf or Common?

Where is your companies focus?  Are you doing active development?  Are you
an end user company or a software developer?  The Technical Dev Conf is
geared more for software developers than for end users.  There are some neat
tool for end users too, but mostly for developers.  Common is a more
generalized forum.  We here are end users that have developed our own home
grown software.  We do not sell software but have 6 full time developers as
well as 3 full time operators.  The technical conference was great.  Learned
lots of tricks of the trade and more in-depth information on activation
groups, service programs and procedures.


Christopher K. Bipes      mailto:ChrisB@Cross-Check.com
Operations & Network Mgr  mailto:Chris_Bipes@Yahoo.com
CrossCheck, Inc.                  http://www.cross-check.com
6119 State Farm Drive     Phone: 707 586-0551 x 1102
Rohnert Park CA  94928    Fax: 707 586-1884
 
 -----Original Message-----
From: Hatzenbeler, Tim [mailto:thatzenbeler@clinitech.net]
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 9:23 AM
To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
Subject: Technical Dev Conf or Common?


Were would my $1000 dollars best be spent?  We are a small shop, and my
responsibilities cover the as/400 as a whole... rpg, websphere,  net.data,
os installs, hardware, security, green screen apps....  my question is
this... I have never been to the IBM dev conf, but I have been to common...
I did enjoy my experience there (common) and would like to go back... but is
the dev conference better?  the same, not as good...
any body, been to both and have some good insights... 
p.s. I hope I don't start a war... I'm just looking for some good pro's and
con's, if possible. 
thanks, tim 
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