From Helmut.E.Kotsch at t-online.de Sun Aug 17 13:41:40 2003 From: Helmut.E.Kotsch at t-online.de (Helmut Kotsch) Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 20:41:40 +0200 Subject: [dba-conf] Conference Message-ID: Lembit, I would like to thank you for hosting / facilitating the Access DBA-Conference in your house from Aug. 8th to Aug. 10th 2003. You really did an outstanding job. The environment was great. (I call your house from now on the "Freising Castle") The food was superior. (Say also thanks to your wife) The setup was perfect. (Room and equipment) The presented subjects have been very interesting to me. 1. Gustavs presentation covering the "Knapsack Problem" was very professional and gave insights to a problem that may show up in many situations. 2. Your presentation covering the EIBUS system showed to me to what extend this is already reality these days. (including the Hardware availability) I wasn't aware that this had gone already that far. Not only did you cover the theoretical part of it, you also could demonstrate the functionality since you have it installed in your castle. Great show. 3. Since some of the participants couldn't come to the conference we used the spare time to discuss my "once in the lifetime" database. I appreciated this very much since the discussions gave me some useful hints to improve certain areas of my monster database. Conclusion: Due to your outstanding job in managing this conference I hope that you will repeat this by calling for another conference in the near future. Hopefully more participants will show up to the next meeting in Freising. Our experience should encourage everybody to participate the next time. Keep up the good work. Regards and have a nice day. Helmut P.S.: Your achievements and environment (Freising Castle) made it obvious that you had to be promoted to "King Lembit the 1st of Freising". Next time you might be promoted to be "King Lembit of Bavaria", but than you would have to move to the famous castle "Neuschwanstein". This on the other hand would keep you too busy installing the EIBUS system in that castle and you wouldn't have time to host another Access dba-Conference. Therefore we probably have to rethink the promotion to "King of Bavaria". (helmut.e.kotsch at t-online.de)