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!