Back to updates and potentially useful information. Many of you may be now writing apps for informix that are running on Clients and Servers using some form of LDAP for user Authentication. If you happen to using Active Directory for you chosen form of authentication, please check the following:

 Blogs, by there very nature, are often very self serving. I mean the blogger almost always writes about something he wants to talk about. But in order to be a sustainable blog that stays on topic you need feedback on what your readers want to see discussed/blogged. 

As you work supporting a database product, in my case the informix product line, you often find yourself working on stuff that may or may not be useful to many others besides the customer you are currently working for. While I see Unicode issues crop up across more than the normal customer I work with, I still haven't seen that many overall, so I cannot help but wonder if this is because Informix globalization is so well understood by developers, or if it is actually on the horizon still. 

 Hi All,

Mark Scranton - an Informix veteran and evangelist - is back with a new website:

• http://www.marksinformix.com

It is good to see Mark back on the Informix frontline. The Informix Zone wishes Mark a successful start !

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