Hilton Hotels Corporation ranked #2 on the 2008 Information Week 500

Hilton Hotels Corporation - a well known advocate of IBM Informix database technology - was ranked #2 on the 2008 Information Week 500. This represents the Highest Ranking of a Hospitality & Travel Company in 20-Year History of Rankings !

It is the superior IDS Technology that powers their backend systems, replicating data between several instances to build a highly available and scalable database grid. The power and efficiency of Informix allows them - like many other companies (Walmart, Cisco, Verizon, Visa, Network IP, Deutsche Telekom, DHL etc.) - to stay ahead of the competition.

MySQL - All that glitters is not gold

You might have already seen the new blog from Rajesh Nair. Rajesh is the IBM technical product manager for IDS and is especially focused on MMOG's (Massively multiplayer online games) as well as Virtual Worlds.

Rajesh posted an interesting new article to his blog which covers the myth around SUN's MySQL database:

• The Great database debate –What’s the deal ?