February 2010

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planetIDS has been enhanced/redesigned

Submitted by eherber on Fri, 2010-02-26 21:11

The planetIDS website has been slightly redesigned.

During that process I've integrated the new Informix blogs from Kevin Brown, Jonathan Leffler and Frederick Ho. You'll now find their blog posts directly on planetIDS and additionally on the right side of The Informix Zone.

planetIDS will be further re-structured during the next weeks.

53. Workshop der Deutschen Informix User Group (IUG)

Submitted by eherber on Wed, 2010-02-24 19:21


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Ich möchte hiermit nochmal auf den in 2 Wochen am 23.03. in Hamburg stattfindenden IUG-Workshop aufmerksam machen. Falls Sie sich noch nicht angemeldet haben, dann beeilen Sie sich bitte, denn die Anzahl Teilnehmer ist begrenzt.

Two important events for the Informix Community

Submitted by eherber on Fri, 2010-02-19 18:54

Event I

This is a virtual event. So people worldwide should be able to attend. The main focus of this event is IBM Data Management and more specifically DB2 and IDS. As far as I can see from the agenda, Informix will have emancipated coverage through the event.

Informix Speakers will be:

Newsletter Februar 2010

Submitted by eherber on Fri, 2010-02-19 18:37

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Neue Ausgabe des IBM/Informix Newsletters

Im Newsletter-Archiv befindet sich die neueste Ausgabe (02/2010) des INFORMIX-Newsletters.

Inhaltsverzeichnis der Ausgabe Februar 2010:

  • Aktuelles
  • TechTipp: Update statistics (Teil 2)
  • TechTipp: Environments - DBUPSPACE
  • TechTipp: ONSECURITY
  • TechTipp: onstat -x
  • Hinweis: INFORMIX auf der CeBIT 2010
  • Hinweis: INFOBAHN 2010

2010: The Year of the Panther and ...

Submitted by eherber on Thu, 2010-02-18 17:42

The nomination period for the Panther Beta Program has been extended by IBM. Take the chance, fill out the registration form and play with the Panther:

Participating in an IBM beta program gives you many advantages:

  • You have the chance to explore the new Informix functionality in an early stage

Esthetic Surgery for Informix

Submitted by eherber on Wed, 2010-02-17 01:36

After some critical voices regarding IBM's Informix strategy came up during the last months, it seems that IBM is listening and starts to improve things. A new IBM website invites us to discover Informix after an esthetic surgery :-) :

Informix Infobahn Roadshow 2010

Submitted by eherber on Wed, 2010-02-17 00:42

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Deutschland, Österreich und Schweiz aufgepasst:

Vom 12.-16. April bietet IBM in verschiedenen Städten (3x Deutschland, 1x Österreich und 1x Schweiz) die kostenlose Teilnahme an der diesjährigen IBM Informix Infobahn Roadshow an.

IUG Workshops 2010

Submitted by eherber on Thu, 2010-02-04 20:51

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Die Termine und Themen-Schwerpunkte der diesjährigen IUG Workshops stehen jetzt fest:

Informix - IBM's Flagship Data Server for Linux

Submitted by eherber on Wed, 2010-02-03 21:13

IBM has updated the IDS System Requirements Webpage which now covers the latst IDS fixpa(c)k IDS 11.50.xC6.

As you probably know, IDS offers a superior high availability and scale out technology called MACH11 that is available on all platforms that IDS runs on. For that reason I consider IDS as IBM's flagship offering for Linux powered systems. Good news for all Linux fans:

New Informix Blog: Ruminations on Informix

Submitted by eherber on Wed, 2010-02-03 19:44

A new Informix blog as seen the light of the day:

I think we can expect high quality technical content as the blog author is one of the IDS architects: Jonathan Leffler

Welcome Jonathan to the Informix Blogosphere !

I'll add the blog to Informix Zone as well as planetIDS as soon as I get the permission from Jonathan.