Insider #67: Highlights: IDS 10 - IBM's flagship database for pure OLTP and Industrial-strength, embedded computing

IIUG Insider (Issue #67) January 2006 Highlights: IDS 10 - IBM's flagship database for pure OLTP and Industrial-strength, embedded computing 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 * IDS 10 - IBM's flagship database for pure OLTP and Industrial-strength, embedded computing * IIUG/IDUG European conference survey * IIUG 2005 Survey * Conference corner * Information on Demand Live! Informix Acceleration Webcast for Business Partners * Chat with the Lab * Translated versions of IDS v10.0 Manuals * ATTENTION Informix PeopleSoft user * MySQL, once more... * Sun Warms Up To IBM Open-Source Database * Date processing in Informix Dynamic Server * Migrate Now! - IBM Migration Toolkit * Promoting Customer References Simplified for IBM Business Partners * Calendar of Events * Useful links * Closing and credits ============================================================ Editorial ============================================================ This is the first Insider for 2006 and the first Insider of the new Board of Directors. For me this is my 12th issue -- actually the 11th, as JGP was in charge of the October issue. Our first board meeting will be held in February. We will continue to provide our traditional services: The IIUG Insider, The IIUG Web page, The IIUG SIGs (Special Interest Groups), The IIUG/IDUG conference and support for our local user groups. The February issue will include a report from our board meeting. We need your feedback, your participation and your help. If you have requests or suggestions please let us know. If there is any content you would like to read in the Insider please let me know. The December Insider was the first sent from the IIUG's new SUN Server. The new server is a great improvement in hardware but some of the software has implementation problems. Some of you received a corrupted issue of the Insider. It depends on your email program. We are working hard to fix all problems. If you receive a corrupted issue please let me know what the problem was and which email program you are using. You can always read the Web version in our home page. I wish you all a wonderful year. Gary Ben-Israel IIUG Insider Editor IIUG Board of Directors gary@iiug.org ============================================================ IDS 10 - IBM's flagship database for pure OLTP and Industrial-strength, embedded computing ============================================================ We have been hearing it from IBM management in conferences and Informix Infobahns. Now you can read it in the IBM Web site: http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/informix/ids10/ The latest release of Informix(r); Dynamic Server (IDS) - Version 10.0 - is IBM's flagship database for pure OLTP and industrial-strength, embedded computing. IBM IDS V10.0 delivers outstanding performance, reliability, scalability and manageability for enterprises and workgroups. IDS V10.0 offers the lowest total cost of ownership - providing high performance with low overhead while delivering a robust database platform for on demand businesses. IDS now supports rolling application upgrades when built using our industry-leading Enterprise Replication technology. With a full-featured relational database management system (RDBMS) platform, IDS offers extensive capabilities to meet unique business requirements with the speed of native database functions. ============================================================ IIUG/IDUG European conference survey ============================================================ This is a one question Survey. Would you attend the IIUG/IDUG conference in Rome October 9 - 13 2006? Click the link next to your answer: * YES I would attend - http://www.iiug.org/survey/rome.cgi?answer=y * NO I would Not attend - http://www.iiug.org/survey/rome.cgi?answer=n * I might be interested in attending - http://www.iiug.org/survey/rome.cgi?answer=m Your input will help us make the right decision. Please spare a moment of your time give it to us. ============================================================ IIUG 2005 Survey ============================================================ Introduction The 2005 member survey was conducted during October and November 2005. The survey was web-based. While a fully open survey, publication of its existence was only advertised to IIUG members. At close 1070 responses were received. Purpose of the survey The purpose of the survey is to provide a comprehensive understanding of Informix users intentions with Informix and their relationship with IBM. A web-based data collection method was chosen so as to: * Make it possible for all IIUG members to participate * Reduce the cost of implementing the survey Implementation The survey was designed during mid 2005. Testing was completed in September and it went live in October. The survey was closed on the last day of November 2005. IIUG members were notified about the survey's existence in the IIUG publication "Insider". Members were also reminded in a series of email blasts leading up to the close of the survey. No attempt was made to validate that the respondent was an IIUG member. The responses can not be considered as a random sample as no sampling method was implemented. Results There were 1070 responses to the survey of which 93% of responses came from IIUG members. 5% of responses were from people who are not members of IIUG and 2% did not know their membership status. Highlights Following are some of the survey results. The full report can be found on the IIUG Web page. Your Physical Location Total North America 44% Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) 38% Asia-Pacific 11% Mexico/Central America/South America 7% Total number of employees in your company Total 1-10 10% 11-99 16% 100-999 31% 1000-4999 17% 5000 or more 24% Not Applicable 1% Your primary role in the company is Total Executive 6% Executive with other IT related roles 3% General Information Systems roles 9% Information Systems Management 13% IS management with other IS roles 6.5% Programmer and or DBA 51.5% Programmer / DBA with other roles 5% Sales and Marketing 1.5% Other 4.5% What is your company's relationship with IBM Total End user 64% Business Partner 15% Both Business Partner and End User 11% Not Applicable 5% Other 5% What do your company's decision-makers believe IBM will do with the Informix Dynamic Server product line Total Support it and enhance indefinitely as publicly stated by IBM 36% Support it for 5 or less years 24% Support it for 2 or less years 10% I don't know 26% Not Applicable 5% What is your company's primary Informix database product Total IDS 9/10 64% IDS 7 23% SE 5% I don't know 2% OnLine 5 1% C-ISAM 1% Not Applicable 4% How satisfied is your company with the product announcements, marketing and additional attention given to IDS in the last 12 months