We now have two published documents on Informix that talk about the positive impact of Informix in terms of the return on investment that companies can realize by deploying Informix.

Few companies have a meaningful way to measure the value of IT and IT projects before making an investment. Technology providers frequently talk about features and functions but sometimes forget to help potential clients understand benefits.

Fans,

Let me take this opportunity to ramble on a few areas:

 A new report is now available on the economic impact of using Informix. The study is based on a large international retailer with over 4,000 instances of Informix.

The report concludes that over a three year period, the retailer saved over $1 million dollars. The study was done in May 2010. I am convinced it would be even better if they were to do it again with Panther. You can find the report at:

http://ht.ly/2LmTC

Enjoy.

IBM has released a new certification test for Informix that is focused on Application Development:

• Informix 11.50 Application Developer

Working through the new IBM Redbook IBM Informix Developer's Handbook is probably a good preparation for the new certification test.

So have you ever wanted to have an easy way to know how long you SQL waited on I/O? What about the actually number of sequential scans for an individual query? How about the average execution time of a query without running a script and using time() or timex() as part of the equation. I know I have. And until We got to informix 11.10 and above, we didn't have that opportunity, at least not natively.

• Date: Tuesday, September the 28th
• Time: 1.5 hour, 8:30 AM Pacific, 10:30 AM Central, 11:30 AM Eastern, 17:30 Berlin/Paris
• Title: Best Practices for Monitoring Informix Resource Usage Over Time
• Speaker: John Miller (Informix Architect)

You can register for the webcast here

There are two new analyst papers available that describe the cost benefits of IBM Informix. The 2nd report from ITG compares Informix with Microsoft's SQL Server.

Here are the direct links to the PDF files without any registration hassles:

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Neue Ausgabe des IBM/Informix Newsletters

Im Newsletter-Archiv befindet sich die neueste Ausgabe (09/2010) des INFORMIX-Newsletters.

Inhaltsverzeichnis der Ausgabe September 2010: