Oninit
The Down System Specialists

The leading Informix consultancy.

Training, development, support and database administration for enterprise clients worldwide.

1999
Founded
150+
Companies supported
35+ years
Informix experience
15.0
Certified through
About Us

Positioned to advise on anything Informix

Oninit® is the leading Informix and UNIX consulting firm in the US and the UK. We provide training, development, support and database administration services to more than 150 companies in the UK, USA, Europe, the Middle East, and more recently Australasia, China and South America.

The core of our business will always be our support customers. In most cases our customers have mission critical systems based on Informix. We help these companies optimize these systems for reliability and performance.

Oninit® is perfectly positioned to give you the best advice on anything associated with Informix products. Having partnered with Informix and IBM in technical and sales roles, we can confidently discuss issues concerning licensing, support and ongoing development.

The Products

Informix is pure-dead-brill

Informix remains an incredibly reliable product and continually out-performs all the competition. Oninit® is still supporting customer installations whose production environments run on obsolete hardware — and whose applications still out-perform Oracle!

Thinking of upgrading or migrating? Oninit® has developed a simple benchmark toolkit to quickly and easily compare new hardware, new versions and — heavens forbid — even alternative databases. IDS is pure elegance, and we want to talk to more companies that want to push the technology by exploring Datablade applications.

★ Flagship
Dr Watson
Informix diagnostics & health reporting
Open Dr Watson →
★ Flagship
DBVoyeur
SQL performance monitor
Open DBVoyeur →
Nexus
Green-screen 4GL apps, in the browser
Open Nexus →
Forensic Tools
Recover and inspect Informix chunks
Open Forensic Tools →
Phoenix Recover
Recover Informix 4GL from compiled 4ges
Open Phoenix Recover →
Phoenix Forms
Recover Informix 4GL source from compiled forms
Open Phoenix Forms →
BLT
Business Logic Transformer for 4GL
Open BLT →
4glAnywhere
Run Informix 4ge apps on PostgreSQL, DB2, MySQL and Oracle — unchanged
Open 4glAnywhere →
M2I
Run MySQL applications against Informix — unchanged
Open M2I →
Logwalker
Online-log analysis & alerting
Open Logwalker →
Snooper
Wire-protocol session inspection
Open Snooper →
Log Ripper
Multi-threaded Change Data Capture (CDC) for Informix
Open Log Ripper →
QueryLens
SQL to HTML / JSON / PDF
Open QueryLens →
SQLMorph
Convert Informix SPL to UDR, DB2, PostgreSQL, Oracle & more
Open SQLMorph →
Grafana Data Sources
Stream Informix metrics into Grafana
Open Grafana Data Sources →
RegExp Blade
POSIX regular-expression DataBlade for Informix — Linux-fixed build
Open RegExp Blade →
BenchIt Toolkit
Verify hardware & tuning changes — raw-disk vs filesystem checks and a config A/B harness
Open BenchIt Toolkit →
Articles
Informix internals, tuning notes and field-tested fixes from the Oninit team
Open Articles →
Performance Guide
The basics of Informix response time — CPU, memory and I/O
Open Performance Guide →
Our Team

Founded in 1999, led by Paul Watson

The company was founded in 1999 by a team of Informix consultants under the technical direction of Paul Watson. Paul remains a highly regarded Informix consultant and currently sits on the IBM Customer Advisory Council and served for two and a half years on the board of the Informix International User Group.

“Growth is not just about getting bigger, it's also about getting smarter and using our experience to get the most out of the available technology.”
— Paul Watson

Each of our consultants have been using Informix to develop applications for the best part of 30 years. To find out more or to request a profile of our consultants, please contact us.

✓ Certified for Informix 11.10, 11.50, 11.70, 12.10 and 15.0

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