A number of individuals were honored by IBM at the recent Information on Demand conference in Las Vegas, Nev., including MC Press author Roger E. Sanders.
IBM recognized industry contributors to various technology blogs, Web sites, conferences, and book and magazine publications with special individual awards. Recipients were honored by having their profiles posted on the IBM Information Management Web site, receiving special invitations to events, receiving engraved crystal awards, and getting virtual badges for email signatures and community site recognition. IBM is calling those recognized "Data Champions."
"Technical communities, Web sites, books, conference speakers and blogs all contribute to the success of IBM's data management products," the company says. "But these activities don't run themselves. Behind the scenes there are dedicated and loyal individuals who put in their own time to run user groups, manage community Web sites, speak at conferences, post to forums, and write blogs. Their time is uncompensated," the company said in a statement.
Sanders was among 23 individuals honored by IBM at the conference. All are listed on IBM's Data Champions Web site. Sanders, a consultant corporate systems engineer with EMC Corp. who also is president of Roger Sanders Enterprises, Inc., has authored 17 books on DB2 and one on ODBC. Among his current works are DB2 9 Fundamentals; DB2 9 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows Database Administration Certification Study Guide; DB2 9 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows Advanced Database Administration Certification Study Guide. They are available through the MC Press Book Store.
"I felt very honored to have been selected," said Sanders after the conference. "To me it was IBM saying ‘thank you' for all the work you have done over the years promoting the DB2 product."
Sanders has written articles for Certification Magazine and IDUG Solutions Journal, and has a regular column called "Distributed DBA" in DB2 Magazine. He authored tutorials for IBM's developerWorks Web site, and has given presentations at numerous international and regional user group conferences.
A designer and developer of database applications for more than 20 years, Sanders has taught classes on DB2 fundamentals and database administration drawing on years of experience gleaned from working with DB2 as far back as when its predecessor was part of OS/2 1.3 running on the IBM PC.
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