I won't call it a Wake-Up Call this time as the IBM Press Department has proved to be in hibernation regarding Informix related issues throughout the year. So we don't want to disturb them in their well-deserved quietness :-)

However there is excellent news: IBM Informix has achieved the Vendor of the Year 2009 award by VendorRate:

Informix, the IBM database product family, repeated as
Vendor of the Year for 2009. Since their initial appearance in
the VendorRate Report in Q3, 2008, Informix customers have
rated them the No. 1 or No. 2 vendor in every quarter.
Informix’s exceptional performance is universal. Raters in
every job function scored Informix as one of the top three
performing vendors.

Congratulations to the IBM Informix engineers and technical team for creating such a great product !

Congratulations also to Xtivia - an US based Informix Consulting Company - that holds the pole position in the "Top rated consultants 2009" category !

• The VendorRate Year End Report 2009