Reminder

This could be an interesting event for all of us who are interested in Cloud Computing. Good to see that IDS is part of this joined IBM/Amazon event. IDS with it's small footprint, great scalability and unmatched high availability architecture is probably the best suited commercial database for Cloud Computing:

Join us at this cloud computing virtual workshop for developers, professors, 

Open Source Web Application Frameworks like PHP Cake, Ruby on Rails, Python Django or Perl Catalyst are becoming more and more popular among web developers. Even in the enterprise world, that is dominated by Java, those frameworks are gaining ground as they combine the simpleness and power of a scripting language with a strong development framework.

Wiki Change History Page

The IDS Developer Edition Wiki has a new Change History page:

http://informix-zone.com/idswiki/doku.php/change_history

This page tracks all changes to the Wiki, so you can see which articles have been added or udpated. If you've an IDS sweet spot and wish to write a Wiki article about it, just drop me an email and I will create an account for you. Especially I'm seeking for articles in the following areas:

The IDS Developer Edition Wiki

The Informix Zone is happy to present the IDS Developer Edition Wiki.

The intent of the Wiki is to provide useful information around IBM's brand new INFORMIX offering. The Wiki covers areas like installing, configuring and developing with the free IDS Developer Edition. Hopefully more and more application developers discover the power, easiness and efficiency of the wonderful INFORMIX technology.

Free IDS Developer Version - A nightmare for other data servers ?

Update 2007-11-07 - Ready for Download

As Fernando Nunes announced in his blog, the new IDS Developer Edition is now available. You can download it from the following URL:

http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/download/search.jsp?go=y&rs=ifxids

I am pleased to announce a new release of InformixDB, the Python module for developing Informix applications in Python. Changes since the last release include:

• Compatibility with CSDK 3.00
• Ability to manually interrupt or automatically time out SQL execution
• Proper binding of boolean parameters in WHERE clauses
• Make version information about server and client available
• Various bug fixes

Download and more information on SourceForge.

The IBM Informix CSDK 3.00 (for .NET provider) Beta Program will run until 02/28/2007

The IBM Informix Client Software Development Kit (Client SDK) offers a single packaging of several application programming interfaces (APIs) that are optimized for developing applications for Informix servers. IBM Informix CSDK 3.00 (for .NET provider ) contains new features in the following areas:

• IDS .NET Data Provider support for the .NET Framework 2.0
• IBM Database Add-Ins for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005

The .NET Data Provider extends Informix server support for the ADO.NET interface. The .NET Data Provider delivers high-performing, secure access to Informix data. To develop and run applications that use .NET Data Provider you need the .NET Framework, Version 2.0 or 1.1.