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COMMON.CONNECT magazine

December 2004 issue

Members can download a PDF of the entire issue. (3MB)

Table of Contents

Each article or feature is a PDF. Titles marked with an asterisk are for members only. To access these articles, you�ll need a current COMMON ID and password.

President�s Message

*Clustering for Availability and Scalability
by Michael Ross

March to the Future: Looking Forward to Spring 2005 Conference
by Jane Jerrard

COMMON's Fall 2004 Conference--The Best Ever?

A First-Timer's Impression of a COMMON Conference
by Alkarim Sachedina

*LUG Profile: QUSER

Meet COMMON's New Board of Directors

*Customers Sound Off and React to i5
by Heather Ellwood

*Using Application Administration to Control FTP Access
by Wayne O. Evans

*A Look at COMMON's Strategic Plan
by Beverly Russell

Windy City Trivia

The Collective Value of Users Groups
by Beverly Russell, Sandy Cureton and Lynne M. Schwartz

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