Mark Scranton - an Informix veteran and evangelist - is back with a new website:

• http://www.marksinformix.com

It is good to see Mark back on the Informix frontline. The Informix Zone wishes Mark a successful start !

(german content)

IBM Deutschland betreibt einen sogenannten IBM Blue Blog, der sich mit diversen Themen rund um die IBM Produktpalette befasst.

Martin Fürderer - IBM Informix Entwicklung München - bloggt dort auch zum Thema Informix.

Just want to inform you about two changes regarding Informix Zone and planetIDS:

• You'll now be informed about new blog entries that appeared on planetIDS through a block named TopNews from planetIDS on the right side of Informix Zone

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'm happy to announce another new Informix Blog:

Pedro Rodrigues from Brazil started a new blog at the end of August 2009. The blog is called InformixBR and is focused on IBM's smartest data server: Informix Dynamic Server

A special thanks goes to Markus Holzbauer from IBM Munich who alerted me about two other new Informix related blogs:

• Jeff Filippi: Informix Tips
• Markus Holzbauer: Informix Administrators Blog

They are now both listed on the right side of The Informix Zone as well as on the Informix URL Compilation page.

A new blog is born !

Just discovered a new blog dedicated to Informix. The blog is called Informix DBA and it is owned by IIUG Board of Directors member Andrew Ford.

I've added the blog to the right side of The Informix Zone, so that all updates are immediately visible to the Informix community. Here is the direct URL of the blog:

• Andrew Ford: Informix DBA

I just discovered an interesting Informix focused blog and would like to share it with you. The blog has been created by a Brazilian guy called Cesar Inacio Martins. The blog content is written in Portuguese. At the upper right side of the blog you will see some country flags. Just click the one you prefer and the blog content will be shown in your desired language through Google Translate. This works surprisingly well most of the time :-)

An interesting view of IBM's database business from a guy most of us know from comp.databases.informix:

• Does your company have a 'sacred cow' ?

At least I would say Mike isn't that wrong with his view of things.

You might have already seen Guy's Blog entry on this. But I think it is worth repeating this information here on The Informix Zone.

A new Informix Blog is born. The blog is called Informix Voices and is maintained by Cathy Elliot. It will provide interviews with IDS architects as well as additional information what is happening in the Informix world:

IBM Database Magazine - Informix Content

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

• IBM Database Magazine - 2009, Vol.14, Issue 1

The following articles contain Informix related content:

• News Bytes

A new Planet is born

We are surrounded by so many "Database Planets" like:

IBM Database Magazine - Informix Content

New content arrived at the IBM Database Magazine website.

You might have already heard that The Informix Zone received the IBM Data Champion award. There is an article from Scott Bisang titled IBM Lauds its Data Champions that describes the award and mentions The Informix Zone. Unfortunately the award itself - which has already been shipped by IBM - hasn't been delivered by the carrier as of today. As soon as I receive it, I'll share a few photos here.

Via Guy, I see we have another Informix blog out there in the wild: Rajesh is blogging about real Informix in virtual worlds. It's got some really interesting stuff, not just for gamers.

Two interesting Informix Blogs

The following two blogs contain interesting and useful technical information regarding IDS:

• Informix Technical Blog (nameless author)
• Informix Technical Blog (Obnoxio the Clown)

I also added them to the community section of the Informix URL Compilation.
Have fun.

The Informix Blogsphere expands further

A new Informix blog is born:

Jacques Roy: Informix and Computing

Jacques Roy is an acknowledged Informix Expert for many many years. He wrote several books, articles and whitepapers about IDS. I had the pleasure to attend his presentation - Using the IBM Common API for IDS Web Applications - at IIUG 2008. He is a great presenter and I'm looking forward to his upcoming blog entries. Good to see that the Informix Blogosphere is further expanding.

New Ruby/Informix Website

If you are an Informix fan - you probably are as you are visiting The Informix Zone - and you are looking for a powerful, easy to learn and robust programming language, take a deeper look at Ruby. Combined with the Ruby on Rails framework, Ruby is an extremely efficient language for developing web based applications. Applications that probably need a high performance OLTP cluster database like IDS.

A new Informix blog is born

Today I'm happy to announce the birth of a new Informix blog:

• The Korean Informix Blog

The blog is maintained by Kibok Kim. Kibok is a member of the IBM Software Group Korea. The content is predominantly written in the korean language. Kibok started with a tutorial that describes the use of IDS together with Eclipse and Websphere.

New Blog: IDS Replication Rounddtable

A new blog has seen the light of the day:

IDS Replication Roundtable

The author is Madison Pruet. Madison is an IBM Senior Technical Staff Member and is widely known as the Informix Replication Architect. Madison covers in his blog everything that is related to the outstanding replication capabilities of IDS:

• HDR - High Availability Data Replication
• ER - Enterprise Replication

Become a part of The Informix Zone

Members of The Informix Zone are now able to create their own, individual blog.

I invite you to be an active part of the Informix Zone Community. If you have to say something (positive) about Informix technology, don't hesitate, register yourself and become a part of the Informix Zone Community. Your contributions in form of articles or opinions published in your personal blog at The Informix Zone are highly appreciated.