Return-Path: owner-postman Received: from faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU (faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.37.53]) by nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.10/8.6.3) with ESMTP id XAA06527 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 1995 23:30:34 -0700 Received: from localhost.Berkeley.EDU (localhost.Berkeley.EDU [127.0.0.1]) by faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.10/8.6.3) with SMTP id XAA01704 for postgres-arch; Mon, 31 Jul 1995 23:30:32 -0700 Message-Id: <199508010630.XAA01704@faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU> X-Authentication-Warning: faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU: Host localhost.Berkeley.EDU didn't use HELO protocol From: aoki@CS.Berkeley.EDU (Paul M. Aoki) To: postgres-arch@postgres.Berkeley.EDU Reply-To: aoki@CS.Berkeley.EDU (Paul M. Aoki) Subject: [pbrown@postgres.Berkeley.EDU: Bay Area Illustra Users Meeting Minutes] Date: Mon, 31 Jul 95 23:30:31 -0700 Sender: aoki@postgres.Berkeley.EDU X-Mts: smtp ------- Forwarded Message From: Paul Brown 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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'. ------- End of Forwarded Message -- Paul M. Aoki | University of California at Berkeley aoki@CS.Berkeley.EDU | Dept. of EECS, Computer Science Division (#1776) | Berkeley, CA 94720-1776