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13 Jan 12 - MC Press online - Informix Dynamic Server Entices New Users with Free Production Edition ... Read
11 Jan 12 - Computerworld - Ecologic Analytics and Landis+Gyr -- Suitors Decide to Tie the Knot... Read
9 Jan 12 - planetIDS.com - DNS impact on Informix / Impacto do DNS no Informix... Read
8 Sep 11 - TMCnet.com - IBM Offers Database Solution to Enable Smart Meter Data Capture... Read
1 Aug 11 - IBM Data Management Magazine - IIUG user view: Happy 10th anniversary to IBM and Informix... Read
8 Jul 11 - Database Trends and Applications - Managing Time Series Data with Informix... Read
31 May 11 - Smart Grid - The meter data management pitfall utilities are overlooking... Read
27 May 11 - IBM Data Management Magazine - IIUG user view: Big data, big time ( Series data, warehouse acceleration, and 4GLs )... Read
16 May 11 - Business Wire - HiT Software Announces DBMoto for Enterprise Integration, Adds Informix. Log-based Change Data Capture... Read
21 Mar 11 - Yahoo! Finance - IBM and Cable&Wireless Worldwide Announce UK Smart Energy Cloud... Read
14 Mar 11 - MarketWatch - Fuzzy Logix and IBM Unveil In-Database Analytics for IBM Informix... Read
11 Mar 11 - InvestorPlace - It's Time to Give IBM Props: How many tech stocks are up 53% since the dot-com boom?... Read
9 Mar 11 - DBTA - Database Administration and the Goal of Diminishing Downtime... Read
2 Feb 11 - DBTAs - Informix 11.7 Flexible Grid Provides a Different Way of Looking at Database Servers... Read
27 Jan 11 - exactsolutions - Exact to Add Informix Support to Database Replay, SQL Monitoring Solutions... Read
25 Jan 11 - PR Newswire - Bank of China in the UK Works With IBM to Become a Smarter, Greener Bank... Read
12 Oct 10 - Database Trends and Applications - Informix 11.7: The Beginning of the Next Decade of IBM Informix... Read
20 Sep 10 - planetIDS.com - ITG analyst paper: Cost/Benefit case for IBM Informix as compared to Microsoft SQL Server... Read
20 Jul 10 - IBM Announcements - IBM Informix Choice Edition V11.50 helps deploy low-cost scalable and reliable solutions for Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows... Read
20 Jul 10 - IBM Announcements - Software withdrawal: Elite Support for Informix Ultimate-C Edition... Read
24 May 10 - eWeek Europe - IBM Supplies Database Tech For EU Smart Grid... Read
23 May 10 - SiliconIndia - IBM's smart metering system allows wise use of energy... Read
21 May 10 - CNET - IBM to help people monitor energy use... Read
20 May 10 - ebiz - IBM Teams With Hildebrand To Bring Smart Metering To Homes Across Britain... Read
19 May 10 - The New Blog Times - Misurare il consumo energetico: DEHEMS è pronto... Read
19 May 10 - ZDNet - IBM software in your home? Pact enables five-city smart meter pilot in Europe... Read
17 March 10 - ZDNet (blog) David Morgenstern - TCO: New research finds Macs in the enterprise easier, cheaper to manage than... Read
17 March 2010 - Virtualization Review - ...key components of Big Blue's platform to the commercial cloud such as its WebSphere suite of application ser vers and its DB2 and Informix databases... Read
10 February 2010 - The Wall Street Journal - International Business Machines is expanding an initiative to win over students and professors on its products. How do they lure the college crowd?... Read

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Insider Profiles IIUG Director Andrew Ford

Q: How do you use Informix in your "real" job (DBA, Consultant, Developer, etc.)?
A: My current job title is Senior Database Administrator, which translates to Only Database Administrator (good thing we run I DS, I've only been paged twice in the last 9 months). I work for NetworkIP, a provider of prepaid telecom services based in L calability to power the call processing applications that we develop in house.
 
Q: How long have you been using Informix products?
A: I have been using Informix for about 8.2 years. It is funny, when I accepted that first DBA job I had no intentions of bec oming a DBA for life (does anyone?) The DBA job was just going to build some resume fodder and keep the lights on until I cou ld land one of the bazillion software jobs in Austin at the time. After a few months of working with IDS and some great train ing by the Informix Education people I forgot about those software jobs and decided IDS was where I wanted to spend my career.
 
Q: What is background with IIUG and what interested you in joining the IIUG Board?
A: I have been an IIUG member for about 8.1 years and in this time have benefited greatly from the hard work of the IIUG Board members, Conference Planning Committees and members of IIUG. I've attended the conferences put on by these people, utilized the scripts and applications in the IIUG Software Repository, received news and information from the IIUG web site and have ha d numerous questions answered in the forums. Joining the IIUG Board of Directors will give me a chance to do my part for the Informix community and repay those that have helped me in the past.
 
Q: Where are you from?
A: I'm an Austin, Texas guy. I have lived here since 1980 (that's almost 85% of my lifetime), graduated from the University o f Texas at Austin in 1999 (go Horns!) and landed a job right out of college as an entry level Informix DBA here in Austin. I' m beginning to think I'll live here forever and I am pretty sure I'm ok with that.
 
Q: Can you tell us about your family and hobbies outside of the IIUG?
A: I'm married and have two daughters ages 5 and 2. The few seconds of the day unallocated to playtime with my kids, work or home improvements are spent playing poker. I'm a big fan of most forms of gambling, but enjoy poker because it is not entirely a game of chance and you can show a positive exp ectation in the long run. I play online most of the time (I am oninit on bodog) but my wife (she plays too) and I try to make it up to the card rooms in Louisiana, Oklahoma and Las Vegas at least once every couple of months for some live poker sessions.
 

Published by IIUG Enews (Enews@IIUG.org), 31 August 2007.