For those who are interested in running IDS on the Mac, here are some helpful articles about installing and accessing IDS thru PHP on the Mac:

• Mike Abney: Installing Informix on a Mac I
• Mike Abney: Installing Informix on a Mac II
• Antonio Musarra: Mac OS X Snow Leopard: Informix IDS 11.5 + PHP 5.3

Apparently, there are a few issues with the IDS install on Mac, Carlton Doe has put out a document to help with any problems you might find.

You can get the document here.

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

Welcome to the Cat's party - Cheetah meets Leopard

• Great news for all MAC fans: They will soon have the smartest and most efficient professional data server available for their favorite MAC OS X 10.5 platform (Codename Leopard).
• Great news for all IDS fans: They will soon have a very interesting, cool and powerful new operating system platform available to deploy their favorite data server (Codename Cheetah2) on.