IT Week: IBM 'Cheetah 2' mauls data costs

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The upgraded IDS, version 11.5 can deliver low-cost continuous data availability across clustered data centers. It can be configured to give high availability using commodity hardware set up as a cluster, and automatic workload balancing to optimise network connections to additional servers wherever they are located.

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Intelligent Enterprise: IBM Informix Upgrade Enhances Clustering, Database Management

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While IBM's DB2 accounted for the lion's share of IBM's growth, IDS is said to play a "significant role" in IBM's overall database revenue. Acquired in 2001, IDS was upgraded to version 11.0 last June.

Comment The Informix Zone:
Below just an example calculation why DB2 might have accounted for the lion's share of IBM's growth:

As long as IBM doesn't publish the detailed numbers, the above calculation is only a guess. But if you take a look at the market, it is hardly to believe that DB2 LUW performs better than IDS. IDC Analyst Carl Olofson describes IDS as IBM's "growth machine" in this german pressrelease.

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