What:

COMMON Focus 2008 

When:

Oct. 5-8, 2008 

Where:

Crowne Plaza, San Francisco Airport

Burlingame, CA

COMMON Focus 2008, our annual workshop conference event, returns after a highly successful debut last year and will be held this year from October 5 – 8, 2008 in San Francisco, California. This unique conference offering will feature three days of intense, focused education on leading-edge IBM i-related topics.

COMMON Focus 2008 will also have a tabletop-style exhibition area where we are expecting nearly 40 exhibitors. Attendees will be able to view and get hands-on demonstration on the latest IBM i-related solutions available to them from the industry's leading solution providers.

COMMON Focus is designed to be a smaller, more intimate event with a limited number of attendees – allowing them for more one-on-one interaction with the speakers and each other. Attendees can attend only one workshop per day, providing them the opportunity to focus their educational needs on a specific topic each day and gain in-depth education of each topic.

This innovative conference event will offer 15 in-depth, all-day educational workshops–both in lab and lecture-style formats–in a wide range of topic areas. The workshops planned for COMMON Focus 2008 will include the following:

Monday, October 6, 2008

• Disaster Recovery Primer - Ready, Set, Plan
• IBM BladeCenter 101
• Implementing i5/OS and i Security
• LAB: RPG IV for Beginners
• LAB: Getting Started with DB2 Web Query

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

• Systems Management
• Implementing IBM i on JS12 and JS22
• Subprocedures, Modules & Service Programs: Subroutines on Steroids
• LAB: PHP and MySQL on i5/OS-New Stacks and New Possibilities
• LAB: Web Services and SOA for the RPG Developer

 Wednesday, October 8, 2008

• Lotus Domino Admin & Upgrade
• Where Do I Start to use Embedded SQL
• RDi & RDi SOA
• LAB: Linux and AIX on System i
• LAB: V6R1 Performance Tools

COMMON Focus 2008 is an educational conference event that promises to be three days of intense learning - it is an educational opportunity that you don't want to miss. Learn more and register today at www.common.org/focus.