If you were thinking about attending IOD EMEA, there is some information here, including an invitation to be on the Customer Advisory Council. If weren't think about attending IOD EMEA, why weren't you? :-)

If you were considering attending IOD EMEA but were wavering, here are some things that might make it more tempting:

A full program of Informix sessions

Although the sessions haven't been finalised yet, the agenda will reflect the growing importance of Informix in the Information Agenda.

The Informix Customer Advisory Council will be meeting on 2 June

As a valued IBM customer, your feedback and product requirements are invaluable to our mutual and continued success.

If you were considering attending IOD EMEA but were wavering, here are some things that might make it more tempting:

A full program of Informix sessions

Although the sessions haven't been finalised yet, the agenda will reflect the growing importance of Informix in the Information Agenda.

The Informix Customer Advisory Council will be meeting on 2 June

Have you kept up with the IDS 11.50 fixpacks? Do you know what new?

Fixpack 2 came out 20-Aug-2008 and fixpack 3 became available 31-OCT-2008. Fixpacks usually fix some problems but often include improvements to existing functionality. Here are some of the things that appeared in the fixpacks:

Continuous Availability

New features include:* Compression* Easy administration, setup & monitoring of Enterprise Replication with OAT* Improved embedability* Support for the Amazon EC2 computing environment* Support for VMWare Virtualization Infrastructure and Desktop solutions

More at Fernando's blog.

New features include:

* Compression

* Easy administration, setup & monitoring of Enterprise Replication with OAT

* Improved embedability

* Support for the Amazon EC2 computing environment

* Support for VMWare Virtualization Infrastructure and Desktop solutions

More at Fernando's blog.

After a long time without posting (usual lack of time) I decided to take five minutes to make an echo of some nice news. I already heard about plans for IDS 11.50.xC4 around April this year, but nonetheless I was surprised by today's IIUG's announcement.

Accordingly to this news, any customer wanting to get in touch with the next release of IDS will be able to do so, after agreeing to the usual conditions.

In the announcement we can see the major features for this new version:

"Prototypes" and Marketing Strategies

Imagine you buy an innovative car from a big vendor. A car that has a considerable
lower consumption than competetive models, that has a fantastic reliability
as well as versatility that makes you highly pleased every day you drive it,
But there is a single handicap:

The manufacturer delivers the car as some kind of "prototype", only to
handpicked customers with camouflaged exterior and no advertising.

Czech Computerworld: Interview with Jerry Keesee

There is an interview with Jerry Keesee in the Czech Computerworld. Unfortunately most of us will not be able to read it, but anyway I thought I'll share it with you:

Note: the dates for this bootcamp are currently being revised.

All Informix partners are advised that there will be an Informix bootcamp in Hursley from 14 to 16 April 2009.