Insider #56: IDS 10.0, IIUG Conference & More...
IIUG Insider (Issue #56) February 2005 Highlights: IDS 10.0, IIUG Conference & More... Online at http://www.iiug.org/news/insider.html ================================================================ Welcome to the International Informix Users Group (IIUG) Insider! Designed for IIUG members and Informix user group leaders, this publication contains timely and relevant information for the IBM Informix community. ================================================================ Contents: ================================================================ * Editorial... * IIUG - Key Largo Board meeting * IBM announces IDS 10.0 * IIUG Conference - First look at top class presentations * IDS 10.0 Beta testimonial * IBM Informix Client SDK 2.9, Server Administrator 1.6 and Java DB connectivity 3.0 * IIUG - IIUG Informix Yellow Pages and IIUG Sponsorship Program Update * IIUG Board member David Fraser profiled * New Informix Video * Informix Chat with the Lab: IDS v10.0 - Security and Data Encryption * UG meeting schedule * IBM's webcast - Developing with Informix or U2? * Advanced Informix IDS Performance Tuning and Optimization Course * DB2 Information Management Skills Opportunity Development and Awareness * Developer corner * The Linux corner * Service Offerings - Database Trends and Applications * Useful Links * Closing and Credits ================================================================ Editorial... ================================================================ 2005 is going to be an exciting year for me. I hope it will be exciting for us all. For IBM and the Informix user community, the major release of IDS 10.0 is more than a state-of-the-art software product, it is a statement that Informix is here to stay and flourish. As a beta tester I could not hope for more. Curious? You can find out more about it in the IDS 10.0 Beta testimonial. IIUG is launching 3 new projects this year. The most exciting is our IIUG/IDUG conference in Denver May 22-26 2005. For the first time in many years we are in charge of the Informix content which will include 3 tracks with 42 sessions and 4 half day educational seminars. We will have our All-Star team presenting exciting first time topics. In addition, we are launching our Sponsor and Yellow Pages programs and, last but not least, we are reaching out to our users with the "Mark Scranton Road Show". The IIUG Insider is our main vehicle of communication between us. Please send your ideas, comments, requests and stories to enews@iiug.org to make the Insider a better representative of our user community. Gary Ben-Israel IIUG Insider Editor IIUG Board of Directors ================================================================ IIUG - Key Largo Board meeting ================================================================ A board meeting in Key Largo Florida in January sounds cool. It was. Great location, fine company and warm weather, while most of USA is under heavy snow. But instead of enjoying the beaches, we spent our days in a small meeting room trying to make 2005 even more exciting to the Informix users. Our main goals are: * Continue with our ongoing activities. The IIUG insider, special interest group forums, local user groups and communicating between IBM and IIUG. * Establishing our relationship with IDUG to participate in their world wide conference program offering state of the art Informix content in the US, Europe and South Pacific. * Endorsing companies working with Informix offering them new channels of communication via webcasts, advertisements and articles. In return receiving sponsorship money. * Revamping our web site. For the better we hope :) * Proactively reaching to our users. Will we succeed? Let you be the judge of that. ================================================================ IBM announces IDS 10.0 ================================================================ IBM Informix Dynamic Server V10.0 delivers a powerful, robust, easy-to-administer, enterprise database for on demand business Please find it at http://tinyurl.com/5xwbj IDS Version 10 Announcement As members of the Informix International Users Group, we are all accustomed to working with the best database technology available in the industry. We continue that tradition with IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) v10.0, the most reliable, scalable, and extensible IDS database ever. On February 22, 2004, IBM announced IDS v10.0. A new release of system management tools is shipping with IBM Informix(r) Dynamic Server v10.0. Server Studio(TM) JE and Sentinel(TM) together provide powerful multi-platform suite of integrated, intuitive tools that help both seasoned database professionals and novices alike improve productivity and ensure that critical IBM Informix(r) databases remain up and perform at peak levels, manage change and assure availability of vital business information. The wide-ranging functionality these tools provide supports your organization's vital databases from initial design, development and testing, all the way through to production deployment and operational service. http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/informix/ssje/ Concurrent with this announcement, IBM is also targeting mid-2005 for availability of IDS V10.0 Express Edition (IDS Express). IDS Express is designed to provide the performance, reliability and ease of management small and med-sized businesses require at the right price, and to provide application development flexibility and support in working with business partner applications, IDS Express is currently planned to be available on both Linux(r) and Windows(r) platforms. This announcement ensures that IDS is well-positioned as IBM's flagship database for industrial-strength embedded computing. We have been talking to the press and analysts regarding IDS v10.0 and the responses have been very positive. Watch for press coverage regarding IDS v10.0 in the near future. Using IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) v10.0 with Enterprise Replication (ER), you can keep your systems up and running even during application upgrades. IDS v10.0 is the industry's first database software that allows rolling application upgrades for applications built on IDS and ER. This breakthrough new feature ensures you get near continuous uptime, even when your applications require maintenance. Now there is no reason your business can't be running every second of every day. Breakthrough features in this release are unmatched in the industry, and can reduce much of the downtime associated with maintaining databases and database applications. Informix Dynamic Server is a core offering within IBM's database portfolio. It is IBM's lead offering for industrial strength embedded solution opportunities that require databases with the highest levels of scalability, performance, availability, and security with minimal administrative requirements. IDS is also a world leading extensible database for customers requiring high-performance ORDBMS solutions. IDS v10.0 includes extensibility features that are well suited to demanding applications that require the ability to execute complex software components in the database. IDS uniquely offers built in enterprise replication & advanced object relational capabilities. Customers and Business Partners a like can purchase or upgrade to IDS V10 and obtain tangible benefits!Please go out to the IBM website to the announ