The System i Rochester Roadshow is coming to Brighton at the end of October, courtesy of hosts COMMON UK and IBM, and our readers can attend for a bargain price.

The fee for the two-day event at Brighton’s Old Ship Hotel on Tuesday, October 30, and Wednesday, October 31, is £349 for System i user-group COMMON UK members and £499 for non-members. However, by filling out the event’s booking form at http://ibm-cua.org.uk/Roadshow/Booking.htm and entering the code “isnet” in the “cost code” field, our readers can attend at the COMMON UK member rate. There’s also £100 pounds off individual one-day passes.

The full two-day fee include one night’s accommodation, breakfast, lunches, session papers and the conference dinner on the Monday night. The conference itself boasts 20 cutting-edge System i-related sessions.

The first day’s seminars have been broken into two streams, one aimed specifically at database administrators and developers, the other at system developers. IBM Rochester’s Rob Bestgen will speak on DB2 Web Query and various aspects of the System i’s “second database” MySQL, as well as wider DB2 topics such as application modernisation. Meanwhile, IBM Toronto’s Alison Butterill is set to present sessions on the System i Developer’s Roadmap, IBM’s Refacing tools and WebSphere Development Studio.

The next day’s seminars are broken down into streams for ops managers/tech specialists and, again, developers. For the former, there are sessions on HA, BI and single sign-on. For the latter, discussions on service-oriented architecture (SOA) and how it fits with RPG, plus sessions on both application and web development.

For more info, see: http://ibm-cua.org.uk/Roadshow/Brighton.htm or phone the COMMON UK System i user-group on 020 8518 5110.

Seamus Quinn