• Date: Tuesday, Mar the 23th
• Time: 1 hour, 8:30 AM Pacific, 10:30 AM Central, 11:30 AM Eastern, 4:30 PM London, 5:30 PM Berlin/Paris
• Title: What's new in IDS 11.50xC6 ?
• Speaker: Cosmo David (IBM)

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IBM IDS 11.50 release has been enhanced with new functionality to timely 
meet several customer needs. These features cover a range of areas, 

Webcast: Top 10 reasons to consider IBM Data Server Driver for JDBC and SQLJ for IDS servers

• Date: Wednesday, Feb the 24th
• Time: 1.5 hour, 8:30 AM Pacific, 10:30 AM Central, 11:30 AM Eastern, 4:30 PM London, 5:30 PM Berlin/Paris
• Title: Top 10 reasons to consider IBM Data Server Driver for JDBC and SQLJ for IDS servers
• Speaker: Satheesh Bandaram (IBM)

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For those interested in building Data Warehouses with Informix as database platform, the following series of webcasts hosted by IBM Informix Business Partner Advanced DataTools might be interesting:

• Data Warehouse Webcast Topics

Reminder: HDR Webcast

• Date: Wednesday, Jan the 20th
• Time: 1.5 hour, 8:30 AM Pacific, 10:30 AM Central, 11:30 AM Eastern, 4:30 PM London, 5:30 PM Berlin/Paris
• Title: HDR Best Practices and Performance Tuning
• Speaker: Ronald Privett (IBM)

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• Date: Wednesday, Dec the 16th
• Time: 1.5 hour, 8:30 AM Pacific, 10:30 AM Central, 11:30 AM Eastern, 4:30 PM London, 5:30 PM Berlin/Paris
• Title: IDS Security Best Practices
• Speaker: Jonathan Leffler (IBM)

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Join IBM architect Jonathan Leffler at the upcoming Informix Chat with the Labs 

• Date: Thursday, Nov the 18th
• Time: 1.5 hour, 8:30 AM Pacific, 10:30 AM Central, 11:30 AM Eastern, 4:30 PM London, 5:30 PM Paris
• Title: MACH11 best practices around HDR/RSS
• Speaker: Madhuri, Madison Pruet (IBM)

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Jerry Keesee, Director of the Informix Lab will introduce the call 
and Madison Pruet, Informix STSM will be our technical speaker.

There will be a an incarnation of the IBM Virtual Data Conference. This time it is more targeted towards audiences in EMEA and India:

• Title: IBM Data in Action - Virtual Conference
• Date: Thursday, October 22th at 9am-1pm BST / 10am-2pm CEST / 12-4pm MSD / 1:30-5:30pm IST
• Registration URL: Register here

• Date: Thursday, Oct the 15th
• Time: 1 hour -- 8:30 AM PST, 10:30 AM Central, 11:30 AM Eeastern, 4:30 PM London, 5:30 PM Paris, 5:30 PM Berlin
• Title: Advanced Text Searching Topics in IDS
• Speaker: Mark Ashworth

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This month's Informix Chat with the Lab will be deep dive into how to setup and 

• Date: Wednesday, September the 16th
• Time: 1 hour -- 8:30 AM PST, 10:30 AM Central, 11:30 AM Eeastern, 4:30 PM London, 5:30 PM Berlin/Paris
• Title: Update Anywhere Clusters - IDS 11.5's Hottest Feature
• Speaker: Martin Lurie, Informix Technical Specialist

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In September there will be an interesting webcast taking place with Informix veteran Lester Knutsen.

The subject of this webcast is Datawarehousing with IDS. Lester is for sure an excellent presenter for this topic as his company Advanced Data Tools has many years of experience regarding Informix and especially in the design of Data Warehouse systems:

• Date: Thursday, September the 17th

IBM presents the second semi-annual Data in Action Virtual Conference. This is an online event directed to IT Executives and Managers.

I've been told by IBM that Informix will be part of this event. Otherwise I would probably not advertise it on The Informix Zone :-) So this is hopefully a good chance to get the latest news and hear what analysts have to say about Informix. However I wouldn't expect too much from this as "analysts" tend to say what the sponsors in the background want them to say :-) Anyway let's give it a try. Here are the details for the event:

• Date: Wednesday, August the 12th
• Time: 1 hour -- 8:30 AM PST, 10:30 AM Central, 11:30 AM Eeastern, 4:30 PM London, 5:30 PM Paris, 5:30 PM Berlin
• Title: Cognos and Informix
• Speaker: Joseph Pusztai

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This month's chat will be on Cognos Express, an exciting new 

This is a live webcast hosted by Amazon. It is not Informix specific but discusses the the use of various IBM products (including IDS) on the Amazon EC2 platform:

• Date: Thursday, May the 7th
• Time: 9:00am PDT, 12:00pm EDT, 5:00 PM London, 6:00 PM Paris, 6:00 PM Berlin
• Title: Introduction to Amazon EC2 Running IBM

Excerpt:

Amazon Web Services and IBM have recently joined forces to 

• Date: Thursday, March the 26th
• Time: 1 hour -- 8:30 AM PST, 10:30 AM Central, 11:30 AM Eeastern, 4:30 PM London, 5:30 PM Paris, 5:30 PM Berlin
• Title: IDS 11.50 and solidDB Universal Cache 6.3
• Speaker: No Information

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This presentation is an introductory technical session that will cover the 

Reminder: Webcast - IDS 2009 Roadmap and Future Direction

• Date: Thursday, January the 29th
• Time: 1 hour -- 8:30 AM PST, 10:30 AM Central, 11:30 AM Eeastern, 4:30 PM London, 5:30 PM Paris, 5:30 PM Berlin
• Title: IDS 2009 Roadmap and Future Direction
• Speaker: Jerry Keesee, Director of the IBM Informix Lab

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Webcast: IDS 11.50 Upgrade

• Date: Thursday, December the 11th
• Time: 1 hour -- 8:30 AM PST, 10:30 AM Central, 11:30 AM Eeastern, 4:30 PM London, 5:30 PM Paris, 5:30 PM Berlin
• Title: IDS 11.50 Upgrade
• Speaker: Deen Murad, IDS Advanced Technical Support

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 As upgrades are a necessary ongoing process, choosing the time to upgrade 

Webcast: Informix Data - Ready, Set, Mash!

• Date: Tuesday, October the 14th
• Time: 1 hour -- 8 AM PST, 10 AM Central, 11 AM Eeastern, 4 PM London, 5 PM Paris, 5 PM Berlin
• Title: Informix Data - Ready, Set, Mash!
• Speaker: Chris Gruber, Product Manager, Infosphere Mashup Hub

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Using the IBM Mashup Center, you can easily deliver web 2.0 solutions using your 

Webcast: IDS 11.5 Continuous Availability Feature (MACH 11)

• Date: Monday, September the 8th
• Time: 1 hour -- 8 AM PST, 10 AM Central, 11 AM Eeastern, 4 PM London, 5 PM Paris, 5 PM Berlin
• Title: IDS 11.5 Continuous Availability Feature (MACH 11)
• Speaker: Madison Pruet, Senior Technical Staff Member and IDS Replication Architect

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IBM on Demand Webcasts

New IBM on Demand Webcasts covering Informix Dynamic Server are available at the IBM website (registration required):

• Carlton Doe - Developing IDS applications for Mac OS X
• Jacques Roy - Developing and managing transaction intensive solutions for your industry

Webcast: What's New with the OAT (OpenAdmin Tool)

• Date: Wednesday, August the 20th
• Time: 1 hour -- 8 AM PST, 10 AM Central, 11 AM Eeastern, 4 PM London, 5 PM Paris, 5 PM Berlin
• Title: What's New with the OAT (OpenAdmin Tool)
• Speaker: John Miller III, Senior Technical Staff Member

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Join one of our most popular speakers, John Miller, as he explores the capabilities