Re: Which conferences do you attend -- MAPICS-L


Steve,

I will be attending the Spring IBM iSeries Tech conf in June in NOLA, the
FALL COMMON in Toronto, pSeries Tech in Vegas, Part of the Nanotech conf
in NYC, and perhaps the JDE Quest conf in Denver, and SHARE/UB in NYC...
...and WAM JAM in November...

Considering that V5R3 is coming out in late April, I'm holding off until
June to give all the speakers time to get all the stuff into their
handouts.  ALOT of the speakers will have 5.3 stuff in thier handouts, but
considering how IBM handles announcements/disclosures/etc (they do it the
totally opposite way that MS does) I would prefer going to conferences
where all the speakers have had opportunity have time to update and play.
And, I'm going to the Fall COMMON for not only that reason but because
OS/400 based consulting business is WAY DOWN due to general lack of
interest in OS/400....it's not like you're seeing a OS/400 ad during the
first quarter of the SuperBowl...I just can't afford to goto 2 COMMONs a
year...and I think Toronto is a nice town... :)

I'll goto pSeries tech because alot of people are going to AIX/L....and
I've got 2 RS/6000's now that I'm working with here in the office....

OH, I'll also goto the Fall SHARE/UserBlue conf in NYC because I'll get
the AIX/L and mainframe stuff all in one spot...

OH, and I'll also be going to the Washington Area Midrange Users Group
tech conf, the JAM, in November....a great one day conf and this year it
will be cross platform - i & p Systems...

.....kinda hard to find time to work any more...:)



On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 sjones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

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> Just curious as to how many people will be attending the Mapics conference
> this year?  What other conferences do you regularly attend?  Which do you
> feel is the best?, why?
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> We have not sent anyone to a Mapics conference in probably 7 years or so.
> We try to attend one of the Common conferences each year.  Common is good
> to get ideas on where the I-Series is going.  It is not specific to Mapics,
> but can get some good ideas on now to solve some business issues.
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> Two of us went to RPGWorld last year.  I highly recommend that conference
> to anyone who programs.  Very intense sessions & since the conference is
> limited to about 150 people, talking to the speakers is very easy to do
> (not that Common is difficult, just so many more people).
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> Steve Jones
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