Re: PRESS: INFORMIX SHIPS INFORMIX-UNIVERSAL SERVER DEVELOPER

usergrp@informix.com (Christine Shannon) wrote: :INFORMIX SHIPS INFORMIX-UNIVERSAL SERVER DEVELOPER RELEASE ON SCHEDULE :"Tests have shown that current Informix-based applications with alphanumeric :data will have equivalent performance on the Universal Server," said Tim :Shetler, vice president of product management, Informix. "More importantly, :customers will now be able to add rich content and manage these applications :orders of magnitude faster than traditional relational databases can handle :today." ...lots of good information on fancy but very usefull datatypes and manipulations sniped... But one shouldn't forget that even simple things becomes much easier with Universal Server. You can implement calendars that knows about hollidays, all 30 day months (for bank type interest calculations), simple arrays inside a row of data and much more. The standard sql (for standard datatypes) is also much more powerfull. This is a dream come true not only for new datatypes but for a lot of problems with the traditional once. Nils.Myklebust@idg.no NM Data AS, P.O.Box 9090 Gronland, N-0133 Oslo, Norway My opinions are those of my company The Informix FAQ is at http://www.iiug.org