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Subject: [pbrown@postgres.Berkeley.EDU: Bay Area Illustra Users Meeting Minutes]
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 95 23:30:31 -0700
Message-ID: <199508010630.XAA01704@faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU> (raw)
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From: Paul Brown <pbrown@postgres.Berkeley.EDU>
To: illustra-users@ftp.illustra.com
Subject: Bay Area Illustra Users Meeting Minutes
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 12:57:51 -0700 (PDT)
Minutes of the Bay Area Illustra User's Group
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Held:
~~~~ Friday 21st July, 1995
Offices of Illustra Information Technology
Suite 2000
1111 Broadway
OAKLAND CA 94607
Attendees:
~~~~~~~~~
James Ganong
Chris Cooper
Mark Tuttle
Stephanie Lipow
Michael O'Brien
Cimarron Taylor
Steve Re
Elizabeth Y. K. Cheng
Bob Arbanel
Nels Olson
Jo Duus
Jai Kumar
Anand Deshpande
Ajit Patankar
Paul Brown
Meeting opened at 9:15am. Each of the attendees introduced themselves
and shared a little of what they use Illustra for. Users varied in scope
and scale from groups in evaluation mode through to large systems with
10's of Gigabytes of data.
1. "The Illustra Hour" - with Skip Glass, Rob Cook and John Gaffney.
Skip Glass, Rob Cook and John Gaffney of Illustra gave presentations
to the meeting about Illustra's business direction, new technology
in up-and-coming Illustra releases, and demonstrated some systems which
had been developed at Illustra as 'proof-of-concept' software.
Of specific interest to Bay Area Illustra users, Illustra will devote
two full time employees, one technical and one sales, to this area.
Skip told the meeting that Illustra's Web Page was the source of much
company news, and he encouraged users to visit it regularly.
Rob Cook took over and gave the meeting a preview of up and coming
features in the Illustra 3.2 (or Rabbit) release. These new features
included;
i) Support for the SQL-92 Transaction Isolation Levels and
support for 'Read-Only' transactions.
ii) ODBC interface to Illustra.
iii) Embedded licensing, allowig OEM developers to embed Illustra into
their products.
iv) Performance improvements in several areas.
v) Over 200 bug fixes since 2.3.1.
2. User Experiences;
Mark Tuttle and Stephanie Lipow of Lexical Technologies gave us
a demo of their Illustra DBMS based application. The system allows
a doctor to mine for data about a patient's condition, and to
extract information which may be used to decide treatment plans.
3. Next Meeting;
The decision was made by overwhelming agreement to hold these
meetings quarterly. The next meeting was set down for
Friday 10th November, at Illustra, at 9am. We further decided
to take as the theme for our next meeting 'Concurrency in Illustra'.
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Paul M. Aoki | University of California at Berkeley
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| Berkeley, CA 94720-1776
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