Praveen Rao, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, says the word Informix at 0:58 in the following video:

This morning Hannes Visagie posted to the IIUG SIGs about a change to the Innovator-C limitations listed on the IBM Informix Innovator-C page that states Innovator-C will be limited to run on 1 core, down from the previous limitation of 4 cores. I sure hope this refers to CPUVPs and not hardware cores in the server, because who has a single core machine handy these days?

The post below is a translation and repost of an article by Eric Vercelleto on his Le Village Informix Blog last August.  Here is the link to the original for my French speaking friends:

If you haven't already added lockwt to your arsenal of Informix DBA tools, you need to immediately.

I didn't expect to find this in my Google Alerts for Informix today...

Informix Remix

For my Brazilian friends, they're coming to a club near you in July!

Don't forget to register for the Fastest Informix DBA webcast tomorrow. Lester, Art and I will be talking about how the winners achieved our results at IIUG 2012. In my case, I'm going to go with lots and lots of luck and a power surge that gave Lester's Mac Mini Server super computing strength at the precise moment I started my benchmark run.

Here is the info:

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Forrester  Report June, 2012 – The Big Deal About Big Data for Customer Engagements

Nice article from Art Kagel about the value of Informix and how FOT indexes could increase query performance:

What Is Informix and Why Should I Care ?

It is always good to see Informix in the press. Well done, Art !