Customer quotes about IDS

Ardenta Limited (UK)
IBM Premier Business Partner

"I've administered SQL Server and Oracle and nothing comes close to Informix Dynamic Server for its elegance, ease of administration and astonishing, leave-for-years reliability."

National Institute for Testing and Evaluation

"To sum it all up, IDS 10.0 is a DBA's dream come true."

BYTEC GmbH

"Companies that need their data and transaction resources to be available 24x7 will be pleased with the release of IDS 10.0. With this new release, organizations can tune their database and manage index issues online, without interrupting service. Other new features make IDS 10.0 available round-the-clock for enterprise replication customers. The main restriction that prevented the use of ALTER TABLE on CDR-handled tables has now been removed. In addition, IBM has added the ability to repair tables included in CDR, which avoids long, manual data transfers between servers. Since IDS 10.0 is such a time saver for database administrators, I predict a large number of them will migrate to it."

West Corporation

"As one of the nation's premier providers of outsourced communication solutions, we depend upon Informix Dynamic Server to run our clients' applications 24x7. But when we needed to access data for new queries, we would have to lock the table to build new indexes which would reduce our availability. With the CREATE INDEX ONLINE function of IDS 10, there is no impact on our customer interface. This helps us maintain higher availability for our customers."

ACI Packaging

"ACI Packaging is a leading manufacturer of glass and plastics with operations across the Asia-Pacific region and an affiliate of the US based Owens-Illinois Inc., one of the world's largest manufacturers of glass containers and plastic packaging. Several years ago, we chose Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) over all of the other major databases to power our SAP enterprise resource management, business information warehouse and our manufacturing systems.

IDS was the only database that fulfilled the stringent needs of our manufacturing environment. For example, to process time-stamped data in realtime, we implemented the Informix Time Series DataBlade module, which is exclusive to IDS. Powering our systems with these unique, advanced data management technologies has placed us in a very strong and strategic position.

The upgrade of our IBM Informix Dynamic Server environments to the new release, Version 9.4, is just the next logical step for us. Our previous IDS release upgrade from Version 7.31 to Version 9.3 was smooth and trouble-free, and we are confident that the move to Version 9.4 will be no different. The many enhancements in the new release — such as elimination of the 2GB file size limitation — will improve our disk utilization and make our data management tasks even easier."

BAE SYSTEMS Mission Solutions

"As the premier supplier of decision-support and information-processing systems, BAE SYSTEMS Mission Solutions provides best-of-breed information technologies and equipment for our customers' imagery and geospatial needs. IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS), running on SGI high-performance systems, is a key component of our data management infrastructure. We are now teaming with IBM, SGI and our own customers, to evaluate and implement the new release of IDS, Version 9.4.

We are very impressed with the performance and features of IDS, Version 9.4 running on our SGI high-performance systems. It provides even greater flexibility than previous versions in its backup and restore functions. Its expanded memory capabilities and SQL features will give us faster response times and enable us to reduce our code sets. Furthermore, the removal of the previous 2GB file size limitation will simplify disk configuration and database maintenance for ourselves and our customers.

In addition to being pleased with the product, we are also very happy with the excellent Informix technical training and support that IBM has provided during this process. We view this crucial assistance as one more important way in which IBM is delivering on its commitment to the Informix user community."

Lawson Software

"As one of the world's foremost suppliers of business process software solutions for service industries, Lawson Software is committed to using the most advanced technologies to satisfy the business needs of our customers to help them build their competitive advantage. This is why Lawson has been an IBM Business Partner for so many years and why we optimize our products to integrate with IBM databases, such as IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS).

We are impressed with the latest release of IDS, version 9.4. Like all of the previous Informix releases we have worked with over the years, version 9.4 delivers consistent high performance, strong data management functionality and features the ease of administration that is one of the hallmarks of IDS. In our view, each new release of IDS, along with the industry-leading product support provided by IBM, is further proof of their unwavering commitment to the Informix product line and user community."

SGI

"As the world's leader in high-performance computing, visualization, and the management of complex data, SGI empowers technical and creative users to build sustainable strategic and competitive advantage in their core businesses. Because our customers represent the world's most prodigious and demanding producers and consumers of complex data, IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) has long been an important component of the solutions on which many of our customers rely for their mission-critical tasks.

IDS, running on the SGI IRIX platform with MIPS processors and SGI NUMAflex shared-memory architecture, delivers the performance, scalability, feature set, and extensibility needed to revolutionize an organization's workflow. As a result, SGI and IBM share many joint customers in industry segments ranging from government and defense to media.

As a beta program participant, SGI was very impressed with the enhancements in IDS, Version 9.4 running on the SGI NUMAflex shared-memory architecture. Our mutual customers, situated at the cutting edge of their disciplines, demand ever greater performance, flexibility and scalability, and IDS, Version 9.4 delivers it."

TCH

"TCH is the financial arm of Flying J, a nationwide oil company that is active in the fuel and hospitality service industries. Because THC processes more than 40,000 financial transactions daily, we require a reliable and extremely fast OLTP platform. We chose Informix over Oracle for its superior performance and stability, as well as its extremely competitive price. That decision has consistently reaffirmed itself in our ongoing evaluations of the data management marketplace.

We're eager to implement IDS, Version 9.4 because of its far-reaching enhancements in data replication and distribution. And its support for High-availability Data Replication and Enterprise Replication within the same instance will help us comply with FDIC requirements for 24x7 OLTP processing. Elimination of the previous 2GB chunk size restriction will make our database administration much more efficient, as will the ability to dynamically change archive restore paths.

We have no doubt that IBM Informix 9.4 is as robust and reliable as any database available today, and the absolute leader in cost-performance."

Valenite

"Valenite's Die & Wear facility, a leading manufacturer of standard and specialty carbide tools, has been using Informix databases for more than 15 years. We chose IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) over Oracle for its ease of use and attractive price-performance ratio.

We will soon be installing IDS, Version 9.4, to serve as the foundation of our data warehouse and as the backend data management platform powering our production applications. We expect to benefit greatly from the improved performance and ease of use that the new release delivers. We expect that its enhanced automated backup and restore functions will free our systems administrators from manual database management tasks and enable them to focus on optimizing our production environment.

IBM's acquisition of the Informix database business strengthens not just the Informix product line, but the entire community of IBM data management customers. The resources and data management expertise that IBM is able to invest in IDS should make it an even better product, whose powerful features and technologies will strengthen IBM's industry-leading data management offering."