Press Releases

October 3, 2000

COMMON Names New Board Members

CHICAGO, October 3, 2000 COMMON, the world's largest group of users involved with IBM and IBM-compatible information technology, today announced the name of the newest member to its Board of Directors.

Janet Krueger was recently elected to a three-year term on the Board of Directors by the COMMON membership. Krueger, a consulting software engineer for Andrews Consulting Group in Rochester, Minnesota, has been a COMMON Member for more than 20 years, as well as an award winning speaker. She won the Distinguished Service Award in 1999. Krueger will take her seat on COMMON's Board of Directors following the COMMON Fall 2000 Conference and Solution Center, which takes place October 22-26 in Baltimore, MD. The COMMON conference has been rated by Computerworld as one of the most valuable user conferences in the industry.

Current Board members Robert Cozzi and Janice Caldwell were re-elected to three-year terms. COMMON's Board of Directors is composed of nine members. In June, each COMMON individual member and member representative was mailed a ballot and asked to vote for three Board members from a slate of six candidates.

Founded in 1960, COMMON is the world's largest group of users involved with IBM and IBM-compatible information technology. The organization comprises more than 6,500 individual and corporate members representing more than 25,000 IT professionals involved with the application of IBM AS/400*, Netfinity* and related platforms within a wide variety of business environments.

Through its semiannual national conferences and its Web site at www.common.org, COMMON provides comprehensive education and knowledge-sharing opportunities for those involved in the application and optimization of IT within business environments.

* Trademarks or registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corp.

For more information on COMMON or the Fall 2000
Conference, contact:
COMMON Headquarters
230 West Monroe, Suite 220
Chicago, IL 60606
Phone: 800.777.6734 or 312.279.0192
: 312.279.0227
E-mail: [email protected]
Internet: www.common.org