Davorin Kremenjas wrote:
> > Seriously, we realize it is expensive, but it's an investment.
>
> An investment?
> Who is supposed to come to Vienna? End-users who are using Informix and
> Business Partners who are supporting them doing that.
> Well, end-users already made an investement purchasing licenses.
> BP's should invest so they can sell IBM's software? Should not it be the
> other way around? IBM enabling BP's for successfull sales and tech support?

The IIUG is an independent organisation and is not run by IBM.

The EMEA User Conference in Vienna is an IIUG event not an IBM event so
I think it is unfair to request that IBM pays for everyone to go.

This is run by the user group as an independent event and IBM provides
support to the user group as requested

The IBM event "IOD" in Southern california is IBM run and is the event
that IBM would chose if they are going to fund people to attend as this
is their event and there agenda.