Last week was great! I spent the entire week in Malta, where I did some Informix consulting for the Maltese government and then spent three days delivering Informix Proofs of Technology to their Informix DBAs.

I was able to show them, hands-on, the new features and new performance tuning options in 11.1 and 11.5 and let them play with both versions. It's a really great, structured way of getting a feel for how easy-to-use the new technology is and still being able to experiment in a sandbox environment.

If you haven't got IDS 11 yet and you're keen to see what it's like, arrange one of these proofs of technology at an IBM facility near you!

Here's my holiday snaps! :-)

Streets of Malta:

One of the Three Cities:

Loads of money to be seen on the hoof at the Marinas:

The $300 million Motor Yacht "A":

(The photo doesn't convey how enormous it is -- it's about 7 or 8 stories high!!)

Happy students: