What do Amazon.com, Red Hat, TUSC, VERITAS, Aventis and Roman have in common? They'll all be at the MOUG Summer Conference July 10-11 in Chicago!

Make it a point to join some of the top technologists when they gather July 10-11 at the University of Illinois-Chicago Illini Union for the Midwest Oracle Users Group Summer Conference.

It all kicks off on Thursday (1-5 p.m.) with your choice of two sessions. The first track features discussions on "Grid Computing" and "Tuning Statspack, Enterprise Manager and V$X," respectively, with Oracle Corp.'s Rick Greenwald and TUSC's Rich Niemiec. The other track is a presentation on "Using VERITAS Software with Oracle."

Day two, which will have a full contingent of participating vendors, opens at 8:15 a.m. with Oracle's Anjali Dhond looking at "Oracle9iAS Release 2 9.0.4 Update." At 9 a.m., Amazon.com's Matt Swann, director of database systems, follows with a talk on "Scaling the Amazon Platform." At 9:50 a.m., Oracle Corporate Security takes the podium for "Oracle Security -- What You Should Know." At 11 a.m., Red Hat Inc.'s Michael Tiemann, chief technology officer, addresses "Oracle and Linux."

After lunch, which will include a panel discussion on security and time for exhibit hall review, you'll have a choice of breakout sessions in developer and database administration tracks. The developer track schedule is as follows: "JDeveloper" with TUSC's Patrick Callahan, 1-2 p.m.; "Oracle9iAS J2EE and Web Services Architecture" with Oracle's Anjali Dhond, 2:15-3:15 p.m.; and "Project Marvel" with Roman Inc.'s Tony Jedlinski, 3:30-4:30 p.m. The DBA track is as follows: "Leveraging VERITAS with Oracle" with VERITAS Software's Paul Massiglia and TUSC's Rich Niemiec, 1-2 p.m.; "New Oracle9i Database Triggers" with TUSC's Joe Trezzo, 2:15-3:15 p.m.; and "Recovering a Mission-Critical Database" with Aventis' Nanak Sawlani, 3:30-4:30 p.m. A networking opportunity will be offered for all attendees from 4:30-5 p.m.

Keep checking this Web site, as well as www.moug.org for updates.

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