Well, that was a really fantastic event! First off, congratulations to the hardworking team of Kathryn Sylvester and Sandra Rye of Bell Micro, who selflessly sacrificed themselves to the hospitality of dozens of venues before deciding on the Tythe Barn outside Bicester, which was an excellent choice.

The excellent and selfless organisers, Kathryn and Sandra

The venue

David Linthwaite, Chairman of the UKIUG, kicked off the meeting with his famous trolly dolly impersonation.

Jerry Keesee unloading some fantastic statistics about how well Informix is doing

Jonathan Leffler argued the case for better database security

Jon Ritson as you've never seen him before - with a tie!

Sad Perl Geeks, Jonathan Leffler and Clive Eisen share a joke about CPAN

Lunch was delicious! (Stuart would have been proud!)

Below are some random social pics. Enjoy!

I'll be writing up the useful content I got out of the meeting in a later post!

(As an aside: I was quite surprised at the number of senior IM sales managers who pitched up ... clearly Informix is becoming very important!)