IBM Informix 11 is competing with Oracle 11g

Following Oracle's release of the new database software 11g last month, IBM also today released the database software Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) 11, code-named Cheetah, Microsoft SQL The server is also expected to launch a new version early next year. IBM Software PRODUCT Manager Lin Shiwei says Oracle's 11g and Informix 11 also emphasize high availability and data compression, but IBM has been emphasizing this for a long time.

Following Oracle's release of the new database software 11g last month, IBM also today released the database software Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) 11, code-named Cheetah, Microsoft SQL The server is also expected to launch a new version early next year.

IBM Software PRODUCT Manager Lin Shiwei says Oracle's 11g and Informix 11 also emphasize high availability and data compression, "but IBM has been emphasizing this for a long time." "he said. He further explained that Informix 11 can effectively allocate load to solve the problem of system burden, that is to do resource allocation on the server. Since more than 99% of the work programs are read-only, Informix 11 writes with only one server and is used for reading.

Lin Shiwei said that Informix 11 was most focused on 24-hour uninterrupted high availability. In addition to the flashback (Flashback technology) highlighted in 11g, Informix 11 also has the same function, but the name is different. This data recovery technique is available in Informix version 9 and can be restored to an accurate point in time. Informix 11 can also support XML file formats, and Lin Shiwei emphasizes that almost 90% of new features are generated in response to customer requirements.

At present, IBM's customers are only about 10%-20% upgraded to Informix 10, so how to promote customer upgrades is still a big test. Lin Shiwei says the target will now focus on users prior to Informix version 10, hoping to upgrade 30% users to Informix 11 next year.

In addition to Informix 11, IBM has another database software DB2,IBM wants to make these two products complementary. Lin Shiwei said that, for example, this time Informix 11 added XML technology, is the original advantage of DB2. The future still wants to add the benefits of Informix 11 to the new DB2, but it does not consider merging the two products. "Merging is a complex thing that can be more difficult than developing a new software." "he said.

IBM currently treats Oracle 11g as its main competitor, and therefore competes with it functionally. As for the Open-source database vendor MYSQL,IBM, it shows no concern about the MySQL threat at all. Lin Shiwei said that although MySQL is a free software, but the overall look is still very yangchun, so at present still with 11g as the main competitor.

Informix 11 is denominated in processor value units (processor value unit) and is not based on the number of processors. Lin Shiwei said that this is to attract small and medium-sized enterprises, because the processors of small and medium-sized enterprises are not so efficient, so that the effectiveness of the pricing will be more favorable for SMEs.