© 2006 IBM Corporation

IDS Now, Cheetah, and Beyond

Jerry Keesee, DirectorDatabase Development, IBMOctober 25, 2006

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Key take-aways from today’s discussion

1 IDS is a strategic data server in theInformation Management portfolio

2 IDS has a rich history of innovation and technology leadership that will continue well into the future

4 You have an advantage over your competitors because IDS is not a commodity

3 IDS is the optimal data server for high-transaction OLTP environments

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Recent Milestones

IDS 10 released: fastest, most-available Informix OLTP data server

IDS Express announced: serves broader range of customers and partners

PHP driver for PDO: enables whitespace developers on fastest growing dynamic Web applications platform

Express Runtime for IDS: greater SWG compatibility; designed for SMB partners

Oracle to IDS Migration Toolkit (MTK): enables migration path in competitive situations

Baan application benchmark: Informix beat Oracle (again!)

“IBM remains committed to the

Informix platform… backing that

commitment by investing to support

and enhance the Informix software

portfolio as technology evolves.”

-- Ambuj Goyal, General Manager,

IBM Information Management

http://www.ibm.com/informix/execsupport/

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Small & Medium Businesses

New Express & Workgroup editions of IDS 10 appeal to the SMB market. Low DBA requirements are a strong selling point.

Key Industries

IDS has significant market presence within key industries including Telco,

Government, Retail & Banking

IBM Data Servers Strategy Continue leadership in all database segments with the right

technology

– Informix Family

– DB2 Family

– IMS, …

Capitalize on market strengths of Informix Dynamic Server (IDS)

#1 Leader – “Database World Wide Market Share” - Gartner

On line Transaction Processing

IDS 10 increases the performance of OLTP applications

Integrated Applications

IDS is IBM’s flagship database for industrial-strength integrated

applications.

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IDS: Then, now, and what’s to come

IDS 10IDS 1020052005

OLTP OLTP PerformancePerformance

20062006

Enhanced Enhanced Data ServicesData Services2007 – Cheetah*2007 – Cheetah*

Administration Administration Free ZoneFree Zone

vNext+*vNext+*

Fastest, most-available Informix OLTP engine ever

IDS Express

PHP driver

Baan benchmarks

Continuous advances in OLTP engine solidify market position

Enhanced memory management

Enabled for sub-capacity

Web Services support for Spatial Applications

Performance and High Availability enhancements

Security enhancements meets Common Criteria specifications

Significantly improved administration functions

Enhanced support for unstructured data

Customizable footprint on installation

HDR Evolution

And much more….

Intelligent administration and monitoring

Enterprise security enhancements

Enhanced enterprise data management

Matrix-based replication

Enhanced administration functions

* Subject to change

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Disclaimer

Timeline for delivery of these features is subject to change

Design and implementation for individual feature is subject to change

Not an exhaustive list

Features will be identified over the coming months.

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Features…..

Common Criteria

- Providing the required assurance for security functions:

• Identification and Authentication, Access Control, Audit, Communications Security and Data Protection

• EAL 4 - The most rigorous evaluation assurance level for an existing commercial product

Label Based Access Control (LBAC)- Maintain tight control over access to data (Need to Know)

- Restrict or enable access to rows or columns based on security labels assigned to users

- Define exactly who has read and write access to individual rows and columns

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Simplified Powerful Administration

Reducing TCO for Application Providers- Session setup

• Database open/close triggers to allow session setup

- Enhancements to IDS stored procedure language

- Optimistic concurrency→ Isolation committed read last committed

• Readers don’t block writers, writers don’t block readers

Web Feature Service for Location Based Services - Web Feature Service Implementation Specification 1.1 from OGC

- Build on top of Geodetic initially, then extend to other DataBlades

- Leverage our investment in spatio-temporal technology and open it to more vendors

- Uses XML (with GML extensions) to query, insert, update and delete features from a spatial data store using both geometry and traditional data types

- Many GIS applications (including ESRI) have WFS clients that can consume this data

- WFS data can be consumed by many different applications (Java, .NET, PHP, traditional 3rd generation languages)

Features…..

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Database Application Development

Strategy- Deliver superior AD capabilities

- Provide comprehensive tooling allowing customers to create business applications including Web services with ease

© 2006 IBM Corporation

IBM Informix Dynamic Server –On the Move

Bruce Weed, Program DirectorIBM Data Servers October 25, 2006

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DB2IBM Information

Management

Major Change – Brand Name

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Why Do Clients Rely on IDS?“… One customer runs 4,000

locations and more than 10,000 instances of the current IDS release

with just 8 DBAs…”

“Nearly Hands-free” Administration

Blazing-fast OLTP

High Reliability

Extensive Platform Coverage

…70% of phone calls worldwide route through IDS…

…IDS powers the world’s largest retailers…8 of the top 10 U.S. retailers

20 of the top 25 U.S. supermarket

…Hotel Reservation systems…Emergency Phone Systems…Judicial Applications…National Security… Tax

Administration…Customs…and more…

Recent IDS Advertising

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Customers and Partners Continue to Adopt IDS 10

Double Digit Growth Q1, Q2

and Q3

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Innovating with IDSIDS 10 Scores at World Cup with Radio-based Tracking System

Background

- IMP AG / Cairos Technologies AG

• Specializes in sports statistics, TV graphics and formats, multimedia and content systems

• Radio-based tracking systems→ Exact position determination → In real-time→ Sporting events & industrial sector

Requirements- High availability & performance

- Real-time data management

Solution- IDS 10 accumulates, evaluates and publishes

data live during the match

IDS: The Official German Bundesliga Soccer Database and WM 2006

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Cheetah, in the news

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IOD Event in Anaheim, CA

Over 5000 people attended the conference

Informix customers, business partners alike, agreed that it was a great event

IBM IDS was covered in both Key Notes (Ambuj and Arvind)

Five Geo Business Partner Most Distinguished Achievement Awards were

given out:

Informix BPs won 4 out of the 5 awards!

© 2006 IBM Corporation

IIUG News and Views

Stuart Litel, President of the IIUG October 25, 2006

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Highlights from IOD from IIUG

After just coming back from the IBM Information on Demand (IOD) conference, some verbal highlights on the event

Sales, Marketing and Development executives from IBM sat down with the IIUG board for interactive discussions around the Informix business

Over 70+ sessions where held around Informix topics, including a general Informix meeting open to everyone at the conference

The IIUG was extremely happy with the IOD event!

– The conference has been great and inspiring. The technical content was very good. The positioning of IDS was superb. You have done an excellent job!

Kind regards,

David Fraser

Board of Directors

International Informix Users Group

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Informix Users Forum 2006

The Washington Area Informix User Group (WAIUG) based in Washington, DC, and the Southeast Informix Users Group (SEIUG), based in Atlanta, GA, are teaming up once again to present Informix User Forum 2006. This will be the premiere Informix regional user group technical conference in the world. This is a user conference planned and run by Informix users for Informix users.

December 8-9, 2006 in suburban Washington, DC (Fairview Park Marriott, VA)

Top technical sessions from users and IBM developers. Three tracks of ALL technical sessions

Keynote Speakers

- Friday Dec 8 – Ambuj Goyal – General Manager of IBM Information Management

- Saturday Dec 9 - Arvid Krishna – Vice President of Database Servers, IBM Information Management

For more information and to register visit www.iiug.org/waiug

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2007 IIUG / IDUG Conferences

San Jose, CA – May 2007

Run by users for the users. NO Marketing. All technical.

Sessions / Grids are about to be announced.

More USER Informix technical Informix sessions than any other conference

This event could not happen fro the IIUG side without the long hours and time of Board member Cindy Lichtenauer and her CPC people Kernoal, James and Tammy.

We hope to see you in San Jose. Check put http://www.iiug.org/conf for more information.

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Special Announcement

THE IIUG / IDS Downloads are back

Just released this morning on the IIUG Web site

- IDS 10 for AIX, HP, Linux Sun and Windows!!

Available in the IIUG member area (www.iiug.org/members)

ONLY restrictions:

- Five process limit

- Cannot be used in production environment

Special thank you to: Bernie Spang, Jerry Keesee, Bruce Weed, Cindy Fung,

Gary Proctor and most of all the ENTIRE IBM / Informix development staff.