A new issue of the IBM Database Magazine has been released.

There are three Informix related articles included:

• Date: Thursday, August the 26th
• Time: 1.5 hour, 10:30 AM Pacific, 0:30 PM Central, 1:30 PM Eastern, 6:30 PM London, 7:30 PM Berlin/Paris
• Title: Informix Post End of Service Support Options and Upgrade Best practices
• Speaker: Al Martin(Director; WW Data Management Support); Charles Gonsalves
  (Sr. Manager; WW Informix Support, IBM,), Ron Privett (Sr.Engineer,
  Americas Down Systems and Diagnostics Team.), Chris Fender (Program

Virtual Processor (VP) is the technical term for an Informix process. Informix forks off a handful of these VPs at engine startup to take advantage of multiple CPUs or cores and increase parallelism. Each VP is multithreaded allowing Informix to efficiently use the CPU time each process is awarded by the OS, letting ready threads do work while other threads are busy waiting on something else to finish.