On Tuesday this week the 1st of several worldwide events with the motto Discover the New Face of Informix has taken place in New York City. It seems that it was a huge success.

Bruce Weed wrote a detailed report about the event. Let me just quote a single, but important sentence from my point of view:

"As I mentioned in the beginning I felt the event was very successful, 

French Informix-Newsletter

Today I'm happy to announce the first issue of the French Informix Newsletter. This localized newsletter is published by a team of French IBM Informix specialists.

The newsletter archive will be hosted on The Informix Zone. You'll find it on the left side in the block named Information Zone.

Congratulations to the French IBM Informix team for making this happen !

Bruce Weed, who is responsible for leading the strategic direction for the Informix business at IBM, has posted a new update to his blog.

In his update Bruce mentions the big Informix Event that will take place today in New York City. Prominent speakers from IBM including Arvind Krishna, Robert D. Thomas and Jerry Kessee will talk about IBM's Informix strategy. This is only the kick off for a worldwide series of events of this type.

LiveTime Software, a leading provider of ITIL certified Web 2.0 Service Management,
Help Desk and Customer Support Software, today announced support for IBM's
Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) 11.

• 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)

You can register for the webcast here...

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

After the harsh but necessarily criticism regarding IBM's Informix strategy, it seems that things come in motion.

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Die nachfolgende Information ist sicherlich für alle interessant, die auf der diesjährigen Cebit Messe unterwegs sind.

Die zwei geplanten Vorträge mit dem Thema Informix-Update zeigen, dass mehr Dynamik in das Thema Informix@IBM und der Vermarktung von Informix zu kommen scheint. Das akuelle Newsletter-Editorial der IIUG bestätigt dies. Super !

After integrating the three new Informix blogs in planetIDS and The Informix Zone I'm happy today to announce another Informix related blog created by an IBMer:

• New Informix Blog: Bruce Weed

Excerpt:

A quick introduction: my name is Bruce Weed and I work at IBM, where I’m responsible 
for leading strategic direction around the Informix business as well as leading 

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.

• http://www.planetids.com

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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.

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:

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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

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:

• http://ibm.com/software/data/informix/beta/

Participating in an IBM beta program gives you many advantages:

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

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 :-) :

• Discover the new face of Informix

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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.

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

• 1. Workshop
  • Datum: Dienstag, 23. März
  • Ort: Hamburg
  • Thema: Cloud Computing, Virtualisierung und Entwicklungswerkzeuge

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:

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

• Ruminations on Informix

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.

I just read the Editorial of the IIUG Insider January 2010. While Gary's words might sound harsh, he is exactly expressing the feeling and opinion of the worldwide Informix community.

We have all seen those statements and promises on Powerpoint slides as well as directly from IBM executives how seriously IBM takes Informix and how great IBM's strategy for Informix is. However the reality speaks a different language:

A new issue of the IBM Database Magazine has been released.

There are two Informix related articles included. One from IIUG president Stuart Litel and the other one from Informix Datawarehouse Specialist Lester Knutsen:

• Stuart Litel - IIUG User View: To IOD or IIUG?