March 02, 2004

By: Don French
Website: http://www.1st-in-flags.com

COMMON takes the checkered flag in Indianapolis

Almost 2,300 IT professionals attended the COMMON Spring 2003 IT Education Conference & Expo in Indianapolis from March 9th to 13th, 2003. Said COMMON President Bob Boyson: "In the first part of the year we were in a little bit of a panic -- between the economy, what's going on internationally, and the number of folks who had pre-registered at that time -- but to look around and see close to 2,300 people here, it's just great.

Opening Session set the pace The Indianapolis conference officially began with the Opening Session on Sunday afternoon. Boyson welcomed attendees and introduced such advancements as expanded Expo hours and enhanced online grids. In addition, Boyson made conference-related announcements and gave important reminders. Then, Malcolm Haines, an iSeries marketing expert who has returned to IBM to promote the iSeries, gave the keynote speech: iSeries, iNation, IBM. Haines emphasized that marketing is key to furthering the growth of the iSeries, and he showed an innovative new iSeries campaign.

IBM hosted informative iSeries Nation Town Hall Meeting On Monday morning, Al Zollar, IBM's new General Manager for eServer iSeries, emceed IBM's two-hour iSeries Nation Town Hall Meeting. Zollar began by reaffirming IBM's strong support for COMMON. There are COMMON members and future COMMON members, said Zollar. And our focus is to make sure we get in touch with those future COMMON members.

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