User Groups & Technical Web Sites
User Groups, Events and Conferences
- CA World will be based in Las Vegas this year
- Compaq Users Group - incorporates the old DECUS Digital Equipment Users Group
- Ingres Users Association (UK) A very active group which regularly persuades CA staff from the US to attend.
- North American Ingres User Association. independent of the UK one, with lots of useful links etc.
- Linux Expo in the UK is in it's second year.
- Oracle User Group International (USA) worthwhile getting in touch with if you use, or are interested in, Oracle.
- Sybase Techwave 2000 Linked to Sybase main home page.
- International Sybase User Group which has a big impact in Europe as well as the USA.
- Websphere User Group
- Data Centres Europe 2006 Mar 21-23, 2006, London
- IRM UK Strategic IT Training Ltd conference organisation
Processes and Methodology
- Agile Modeling Effective Practices for Modeling and Documentation
- TOGAF The Open Group Architecture Framework
Technical Resources, Reference Sites
- Compaq ActiveAnswers reference site.
- DECUS VMS Hobby Licenses - for DECUS members only, you can get a home VMS license by registering here..
- IBM Red Books available online, and can be purchased. Huge subject list of free techie stuff.
- Ingres Trace Flags. For real "techies", these trace flags are invaluable for Ingres 6.4 and above.
- Ingres Trace Flags (again) - this is probably a more detailed and up-to-date site.
- IT Portal contains links to IT-related white papers, discussion forums etc.
- Linux Printing Generic website dedicated to print drivers and how-to
- Logical provide an abc-of-e-vision
- KGB.COM by Kevin Barkes is the definitive VMS / DCL reference site.
- LinuxQuestions.org - Where Linux newbies come for help!
- MacWindows site for macintosh-windows integration
- Microsoft Technet Technical Support Site.
- NETSYS.COM - SuSE Linux Mailing List Archives (english)
- Performance Monitoring some views from Wilson Mar
- Performance Monitoring NT systems using MRTG by Paul Simmonson
- PKI Law Contains links to legal issues to do with Public Key Infrastructure etc.
- Sun Solaris Large Systems FAQ Portal.
- SuSE Lists - SuSE Linux Mailing List
- Sybase Next Generation Learning "Learning Center" web-based tutorials
- Sybase Technical Support
- Tiburon is a very useful source of "white papers" for Oracle people.