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Informix is not for Legacy Apps!
                                                     Updated 2012




Jean Georges Perrin, CEO, jg.perrin@greenivory.com                  http://www.greenivory.com
Informix is not for Legacy Apps!
                                                     Updated 2012




Jean Georges Perrin, CEO, jg.perrin@greenivory.com                  http://www.greenivory.com
Agenda


• Sociology 101
 ‣ What Informix sounds like to baby boomers?

 ‣ What Informix sounds like to GenX?

 ‣ What Informix sounds like to GenY?

 ‣ What Informix sounds like to Digital Natives?



• Innovation (Updated 2012!)
 ‣ 5 apps we did with Informix



• Is Informix ready for DN?
Who am I?

• Jean Georges Perrin ● @jgperrin ● facebook.com/jgperrin
    ‣ IT engineer, (Serial) Entrepreneur, Lecturer

    ‣ Work in web since 1994, Informix since 1997

    ‣ Involved in the dev of local digital economy   TEN
                                                     4Alsace
                                                           .org
                                                                  Thinktank
                                                                  Economie
                                                                  Numérique




    ‣                          1st in France, 4yr and running

•
    ‣ Builder of e-marketing tools

    ‣ HQ in

    ‣ Office in Durham, NC
Who am I?

• Jean Georges Perrin ● @jgperrin ● facebook.com/jgperrin
    ‣ IT engineer, (Serial) Entrepreneur, Lecturer

    ‣ Work in web since 1994, Informix since 1997

    ‣ Involved in the dev of local digital economy   TEN
                                                     4Alsace
                                                           .org
                                                                  Thinktank
                                                                  Economie
                                                                  Numérique




    ‣                          1st in France, 4yr and running

•
    ‣ Builder of e-marketing tools

    ‣ HQ in

    ‣ Office in Durham, NC
Easy to use tools!
                  The best content of the Internet,
                  right on your web site.
          .com    enrich the content of your blogs & web sites
                  ease a regular update
                  enhance your SEO, both on quality & quantity

                  Don’t give your brand to others.
V                 analyze your notoriety
          .com    measure impact of your communication
                  actions
                  benchmark your brand to your competition

                  Your cup of information.
    OnliGence     discover the news that looks just like you
           .com   keep them in your immortal bookmark
                  take notes & share them
Easy to use tools!                                         Advanced Services!
                  The best content of the Internet,
                  right on your web site.                              e-marketing toolbox
                                                                   Let us help you BigData
          .com    enrich the content of your blogs & web sites
                  ease a regular update
                  enhance your SEO, both on quality & quantity

                  Don’t give your brand to others.
                                                                       Mashups Sell more! SaaS
V
          .com
                  analyze your notoriety
                  measure impact of your communication
                  actions                                      Inbound Marketing
                                                                                 Cloud
                                                                  Brand Management

                  benchmark your brand to your competition
                                                                    Automated Benchmark
                                                                                        Content
                  Your cup of information.
    OnliGence     discover the news that looks just like you        e-marketing OpenData
           .com   keep them in your immortal bookmark
                  take notes & share them                           WebMining SocialMining
                                                                                        Intelligence
                                                                 User Experience PaaS
• The content of this presentation is my sole
               responsibility & reflects my very personal thoughts...
      ni ng
 ar
W
              • I do not work for IBM (and probably will never)...
              • I wanted to share some innovative usage of Informix we
               have been doing, please do not see this as marketing for
               either my company or IBM...
              • I wanted to do something different, I wanted to be
               innovative...
              • Consider it as food for thoughts...
              • (And tell me if you think I am nuts)
Baby boomers                      Sociology




        • Baby boomers
          ‣ Born after WW2

          ‣ Hitting retirement from now to 2025



        • Informix and baby boomers
          ‣ Look at it with envy



Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_boomers
GenX                                                 Sociology



        • Generation X
           ‣ Me

           ‣ Typically people squeezed between Baby Boomers and GenY

           ‣ Victim Syndrom

           ‣ Born between 1961 and 1981

           ‣ They listen to normal music, some are grunge



        • Informix and GenX
           ‣ Use it

           ‣ Love it
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X
GenY                                                                            Sociology




        • Generation Y
           ‣ “Kids” born after 1978 (early) to 1982 (consensus).

           ‣ GenY kids are no more after June 1995

           ‣ They know everything about the world just after leaving school

                                                                   Journal du Québec, 22 jan 08

        • Informix and GenY
           ‣ Isn’t everything running on MySQL?


Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Y
Now: Digital Natives               Sociology




• Digital Natives
 ‣ Born 2000+, aka Generation Alpha

 ‣ Tomorrow’s shoppers



• Informix and digital natives
 ‣ You need s’thing? Just Google it...
Coming to databases…                      Technology


• Enough about sociology… gimme bits & bytes!
Coming to databases…                     Technology


• Enough about sociology… gimme bits & bytes!




Baby Boomers
Coming to databases…                Technology


 • Enough about sociology… gimme bits & bytes!




  Baby Boomers


IMS rules!
Coming to databases…                Technology


 • Enough about sociology… gimme bits & bytes!




  Baby Boomers             GenX


IMS rules!
Coming to databases…             Technology


       • Enough about sociology… gimme bits & bytes!

                                 Informix
                                 rules! (*)



       Baby Boomers                     GenX


     IMS rules!




(*) You now know my AIM id
Coming to databases…               Technology


       • Enough about sociology… gimme bits & bytes!

                                 Informix
                                 rules! (*)



       Baby Boomers                     GenX      GenY


     IMS rules!




(*) You now know my AIM id
Coming to databases…                               Technology


       • Enough about sociology… gimme bits & bytes!

                                         Informix
                                         rules! (*)



        Baby Boomers                            GenX     GenY

                                                       MySQL rules (**)
     IMS rules!




(*) You now know my AIM id
(**) Finally Oracle can rule somewhere
Coming to databases…                                   Technology


       • Enough about sociology… gimme bits & bytes!

                                         Informix
                                         rules! (*)



        Baby Boomers                            GenX     GenY             Digital Natives

                                                       MySQL rules (**)
     IMS rules!




(*) You now know my AIM id
(**) Finally Oracle can rule somewhere
Coming to databases…                                            Technology


       • Enough about sociology… gimme bits & bytes!

                                         Informix
                                         rules! (*)                       If it ain’t on my iPad, it does not
                                                                                          exist


        Baby Boomers                            GenX     GenY                    Digital Natives

                                                       MySQL rules (**)
     IMS rules!




(*) You now know my AIM id
(**) Finally Oracle can rule somewhere
WTF, why are you telling all that ?   Technology




Does Informix apps have
to look like that?
WTF, why are you telling all that ?                                 Technology




                                              In a world where apps look like
                                              these...

Does Informix apps have
to look like that?
Informix is not for legacy applications
With LEGO, you can reuse your old bricks. My bricks can be mixed with my kids, creating a transgenerational bridge and a richer
experience.
Case #1: Alara Solutions                                                                                        Use Case



•   Synopsis
    ‣   Alara Solutions investigates and produces measurement reports based on the European standards for radioactive
        equipment.
    ‣   Tool for reporting measurement & building quality reports based on radioactive sources in hospitals, x-ray offices, dentists, etc.


•   Innovations
    ‣   UI
        -    GWT
    ‣   2 tier
        -    Application Server
        -    Database Server
    ‣   Infrastructure
        -    Virtualization on Xen
Case #1: Alara Solutions                                        Use Case



• Architecture
                        Application Server    Virtual Machine

                                              Virtual Machine
                        Database Server
                                                 + Informix

                      Physical Hardware              XEN




                     internal
                                             Firewall        web
                       web
                                                           browser
                     browser
Case #2: GreenIvory’s MashupXFeed                                                  Use Case


•   Synopsis
    ‣       MashupXFeed doubles the efficiency of web sites by bringing updated content automatically.
    ‣       Content is automatically analyzed, filtered, enhanced and published.


•   Innovations
    ‣       The process itself ;-)
    ‣       UI
        -        GWT
    ‣       3 tier
        -        Application Server
        -        Aggregation & Publication Server
        -        Database Server
    ‣       Infrastructure
        -        Virtualization on vmWare ESXi for Application Server
        -        Pure Silicon for Aggregation & Publication Server
        -        Pure Silicon for Database Server
Case #2: GreenIvory’s MashupXFeed                                                                            Use Case



• Architecture                                                     Database Server         MySQL

                 Database Server       Informix & MySQL
                                                                  Physical Hardware         Linux

             Physical Hardware               Linux




                                                                      Web Server      Virtual Machine


                                                                  Physical Hardware    vmWare Server

                 Agg & Pub Server      Virtual Machine


                 Application Server    Virtual Machine


             Physical Hardware           vmWare ESXi

                                                                                              end-user
                                                                                                web
                                                                                              browser




                                      Firewall        admin    We started by virtualizing the DB Storage and...
                                                       web
                                                     browser
Case #2: GreenIvory’s MashupXFeed                                                                              Use Case



• Architecture                                                     Database Server         MySQL

                 Database Server       Informix & MySQL
                                                                  Physical Hardware         Linux

             Physical Hardware               Linux




                                                                      Web Server      Virtual Machine


                                                                  Physical Hardware    vmWare Server
                                                                                                         Not the same virtualization
                 Agg & Pub Server      Virtual Machine
                                                                                                                 technology?
                 Application Server    Virtual Machine
                                                                                                                Guess why?
             Physical Hardware           vmWare ESXi

                                                                                              end-user
                                                                                                web
                                                                                              browser




                                      Firewall        admin    We started by virtualizing the DB Storage and...
                                                       web
                                                     browser
Case #3: Company A                                                          Use Case



• Synopsis
  ‣   Company A is building a new way of creating documents, based on reusing ideas.


• Innovations
  ‣   UI
      - GWT
  ‣   2 tier
      - Application Server
      - Database Server - Hybrid datamodel
  ‣   Infrastructure
      - Virtualization on vmWare vmServer for Application Server
      - Pure Silicon for Database Server
Hybrid data-model                                                                                                        Use Case




                                                          Application (consumer or API)

• Mixed storage in both:                                             Service
                                                                                             Benefits of Lucene: many tools, natural
                                                                                             interrogation, fast on full text discovery, easy
 ‣ Informix (all relational)                              Pojo                     Pojo      manipulation & maintenance of storage.

 ‣ Lucene (text search)                            Database (RDB)               Index (FT)




   Benefits of Informix: superb OLTP engine, replication
   available, very fast, reliable.
Hybrid data-model                                                                                                        Use Case




                                                          Application (consumer or API)

• Mixed storage in both:                                             Service
                                                                                             Benefits of Lucene: many tools, natural
                                                                                             interrogation, fast on full text discovery, easy
 ‣ Informix (all relational)                              Pojo                     Pojo      manipulation & maintenance of storage.

 ‣ Lucene (text search)                            Database (RDB)               Index (FT)




                                                                                                               Why not TextBlade?

   Benefits of Informix: superb OLTP engine, replication                                             Community, dependency, more complex
   available, very fast, reliable.                                                                               storage...
Case #3: Company A                                    Use Case



• Architecture
         Database Server       Informix + Lucene


         Physical Hardware           Linux




          Application Server   Virtual Machine


         Physical Hardware      vmWare Server




                                Firewall           web
                                                 browser
Case #3: Company A                                                             Use Case



• Architecture                                             Reason for virtualization: easy use of
                                                                  a development server
         Database Server       Informix + Lucene


         Physical Hardware           Linux




          Application Server   Virtual Machine


         Physical Hardware      vmWare Server




                                Firewall           web
                                                 browser
Case #3: Company A                                                                                   Use Case



• Architecture                                                                   Reason for virtualization: easy use of
                                                                                        a development server
         Database Server       Informix + Lucene

                                                           Database Server        Informix + Lucene
         Physical Hardware           Linux
                                                           Physical Hardware            Linux




                                                               Dev Server         Virtual Machine
          Application Server   Virtual Machine
                                                            Application Server    Virtual Machine


         Physical Hardware      vmWare Server              Physical Hardware       vmWare Server




                                Firewall           web                           Firewall         web
                                                 browser                                        browser
Case #4: GreenIvory’s VoiceObserver                                                 Use Case



• Synopsis
 ‣ What are people saying about you on the Internet? How do I measure trends in my online
    reputation? How Who are the bad guys? - Those are a few questions we try to answer.

• Innovations
 ‣ UI - GWT

 ‣ 5 tier - Application Server, Collection Servers, Reception Server, Merger & Analyzer Server,
    Database Server - 2 nodes

• Infrastructure
 ‣ Virtualization on vmWare ESXi for Application Server

 ‣ Pure Silicon for Collection Servers, Reception Server, Merger & Analyzer Server, Database
    Server
What does it look like?                       Use Case




  Project
Management




                                  Online reputation
                                        graph




                                   Full text query

 Full data access
Case #4: GreenIvory’s VoiceObserver                                                          Use Case



• Architecture
                     Crawler               Linux


                 Physical Hardware         Linux




                                                             Dev Server         Virtual Machine
                 Database Server     Informix + Lucene

                                                          Application Server    Virtual Machine
                 Physical Hardware         Linux

                                                         Physical Hardware       vmWare Server




                     Analyzer              Linux


                 Physical Hardware         Linux
                                                                     Firewall          web
                                                                                     browser
Case #5: BuzzyAnt                                                       Use Case




• Synopsis
 ‣ Media company seeking to enhance productivity with writers and increase web
   visibility.

• Infrastructure
 ‣ Several servers for information & text processing.

 ‣ Informix as the data storage.

 ‣ Target websites are WordPress (could be Joomla, Drupal, custom web app).
Case #5: BuzzyAnt                             Corporate website
                                                                                        Use Case



     Available content on
     the Internet




                                                                    Automated publication
                                                                    on Twitter & Facebook

 Content Factory

                             Publication on
                             the corporate
                             website.




                                                                  Gardening




                                                      DIY




                            Arts and Crafts
Case #5: BuzzyAnt                             Corporate website
                                                                                        Use Case



     Available content on
     the Internet




                                                                    Automated publication
                                                                    on Twitter & Facebook

 Content Factory

                             Publication on
                             the corporate
                             website.




                                                                  Gardening




                                                      DIY




                            Arts and Crafts
Case #5: BuzzyAnt                             Corporate website
                                                                                        Use Case



     Available content on
     the Internet




                                                                    Automated publication
                                                                    on Twitter & Facebook

 Content Factory

                             Publication on
                             the corporate
                             website.




                                                                  Gardening




                                                      DIY




                            Arts and Crafts
Case #5: BuzzyAnt                             Corporate website
                                                                                        Use Case



     Available content on
     the Internet




                                                                    Automated publication
                                                                    on Twitter & Facebook

 Content Factory

                             Publication on
                             the corporate
                             website.




                                                                  Gardening




                                                      DIY




                            Arts and Crafts
Case #5: BuzzyAnt                             Corporate website
                                                                                        Use Case



     Available content on
     the Internet




                                                                    Automated publication
                                                                    on Twitter & Facebook

 Content Factory

                             Publication on
                             the corporate
                             website.




                                                                  Gardening




                                                      DIY




                            Arts and Crafts
Case #5: BuzzyAnt                             Corporate website
                                                                                        Use Case



     Available content on
     the Internet




                                                                    Automated publication
                                                                    on Twitter & Facebook

 Content Factory

                             Publication on
                             the corporate
                             website.




                                                                  Gardening




                                                      DIY




                            Arts and Crafts
Case #5: BuzzyAnt                             Corporate website
                                                                                        Use Case



     Available content on
     the Internet




                                                                    Automated publication
                                                                    on Twitter & Facebook

 Content Factory

                             Publication on
                             the corporate
                             website.




                                                                  Gardening




                                                      DIY




                            Arts and Crafts
Case #5: BuzzyAnt                             Corporate website
                                                                                        Use Case



     Available content on
     the Internet




                                                                    Automated publication
                                                                    on Twitter & Facebook

 Content Factory

                             Publication on
                             the corporate
                             website.




                                                                  Gardening




                                                      DIY




                            Arts and Crafts
Case #5: BuzzyAnt                             Corporate website
                                                                                        Use Case



     Available content on
     the Internet




                                                                    Automated publication
                                                                    on Twitter & Facebook

 Content Factory

                             Publication on
                             the corporate
                             website.




                                                                  Gardening




                                                      DIY




                            Arts and Crafts
Case #5: BuzzyAnt                                                             Use Case

                     Content Factory            PHP


• Architecture       Database Server           MySQL


                    Physical Hardware           Linux




                     Content Logisitics         Java


                     Database Server      Informix + Lucene


                    Physical Hardware           Linux
                                                                           web
                                                                         browser




                    Destination Website         PHP

                                                              Firewall
                     Database Server           MySQL


                    Physical Hardware           Linux
What we went through   Summary
What we went through                               Summary



• Issues with Informix Support
 ‣ OEM licensing in Europe is not as neat as in the US.
What we went through                                                           Summary



• Issues with Informix Support
  ‣ OEM licensing in Europe is not as neat as in the US.


• Issues with disks
  ‣ Virtualized disks are weird beasts.

  ‣ Performance issues.

  ‣ Poor reliability.

  ‣ Miserable management (difficult to mix virtualized disk & physical disk on a SAN).
What we went through                                                                         Summary

                                                                                          4th - Database storage
                                                                     Database Storage
• Issues with Informix Support                                                                     space

                                                                                         3rd - VM's file system, e.g.
  ‣ OEM licensing in Europe is not as neat as in the US.                  VM FS
                                                                                                    EXT3

                                                                     Hypervisor volume     2nd - VMFS on ESXi...
• Issues with disks
  ‣ Virtualized disks are weird beasts.                                                    1st - XEN on EXT3,
                                                                       Hypervisor FS
                                                                                         wmWare Server on EXT3...
  ‣ Performance issues.
                                                                       Physical Disk
  ‣ Poor reliability.

  ‣ Miserable management (difficult to mix virtualized disk & physical disk on a SAN).


• Tips
  ‣ Don’t mess with disks...

  ‣ It’s not only performance
Why Informix was the best?   Summary
Why Informix was the best?   Summary




• Reliable
Why Informix was the best?   Summary




• Reliable
• Fast
Why Informix was the best?   Summary




• Reliable
• Fast
• Transaction-oriented (OLTP)
Why Informix was the best?         Summary




• Reliable
• Fast
• Transaction-oriented (OLTP)
• Competition would be: MySQL, NoSQL?
Is Informix ready for Digital Natives?   Action
Is Informix ready for Digital Natives?                                Action



• GenY
 ‣ If we lose GenY, we lose Informix... it can’t wait another generation.
Is Informix ready for Digital Natives?                                Action



• GenY
 ‣ If we lose GenY, we lose Informix... it can’t wait another generation.


• Call for action
 ‣ Speak about innovative projects w/ Informix.

 ‣ IBM to relay such projects & products.
Is Informix ready for Digital Natives?                                Action



• GenY
 ‣ If we lose GenY, we lose Informix... it can’t wait another generation.


• Call for action
 ‣ Speak about innovative projects w/ Informix.

 ‣ IBM to relay such projects & products.


• Should IBM give away Informix to startups?
Is Informix ready for Digital Natives?                                Action



• GenY
 ‣ If we lose GenY, we lose Informix... it can’t wait another generation.


• Call for action
 ‣ Speak about innovative projects w/ Informix.

 ‣ IBM to relay such projects & products.


• Should IBM give away Informix to startups?

• Shouldn’t you contact your old college / university?
Thanks!
GreenIvory Europe
http://www.greenivory.fr
info@greenivory.fr
+33 (0)9 50 53 10 34
GreenIvory America
http://www.greenivory.com
info@greenivory.com
+1 (919) 901-0693
Backup
Sources & Photos




• Sources
 ‣ GreenIvory Internal documentation

• Photos
 ‣ Lego Bridge, (C) Jean Georges Perrin
Session Abstract


Clearly, Informix is not a database which is only available for legacy applications, like POS (Point of Sales). In this
presentation we will discover real-life example, state of the art applications using Informix.

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Informix is not for legacy applications

  • 1. Informix is not for Legacy Apps! Updated 2012 Jean Georges Perrin, CEO, jg.perrin@greenivory.com http://www.greenivory.com
  • 2. Informix is not for Legacy Apps! Updated 2012 Jean Georges Perrin, CEO, jg.perrin@greenivory.com http://www.greenivory.com
  • 3. Agenda • Sociology 101 ‣ What Informix sounds like to baby boomers? ‣ What Informix sounds like to GenX? ‣ What Informix sounds like to GenY? ‣ What Informix sounds like to Digital Natives? • Innovation (Updated 2012!) ‣ 5 apps we did with Informix • Is Informix ready for DN?
  • 4. Who am I? • Jean Georges Perrin ● @jgperrin ● facebook.com/jgperrin ‣ IT engineer, (Serial) Entrepreneur, Lecturer ‣ Work in web since 1994, Informix since 1997 ‣ Involved in the dev of local digital economy TEN 4Alsace .org Thinktank Economie Numérique ‣ 1st in France, 4yr and running • ‣ Builder of e-marketing tools ‣ HQ in ‣ Office in Durham, NC
  • 5. Who am I? • Jean Georges Perrin ● @jgperrin ● facebook.com/jgperrin ‣ IT engineer, (Serial) Entrepreneur, Lecturer ‣ Work in web since 1994, Informix since 1997 ‣ Involved in the dev of local digital economy TEN 4Alsace .org Thinktank Economie Numérique ‣ 1st in France, 4yr and running • ‣ Builder of e-marketing tools ‣ HQ in ‣ Office in Durham, NC
  • 6. Easy to use tools! The best content of the Internet, right on your web site. .com enrich the content of your blogs & web sites ease a regular update enhance your SEO, both on quality & quantity Don’t give your brand to others. V analyze your notoriety .com measure impact of your communication actions benchmark your brand to your competition Your cup of information. OnliGence discover the news that looks just like you .com keep them in your immortal bookmark take notes & share them
  • 7. Easy to use tools! Advanced Services! The best content of the Internet, right on your web site. e-marketing toolbox Let us help you BigData .com enrich the content of your blogs & web sites ease a regular update enhance your SEO, both on quality & quantity Don’t give your brand to others. Mashups Sell more! SaaS V .com analyze your notoriety measure impact of your communication actions Inbound Marketing Cloud Brand Management benchmark your brand to your competition Automated Benchmark Content Your cup of information. OnliGence discover the news that looks just like you e-marketing OpenData .com keep them in your immortal bookmark take notes & share them WebMining SocialMining Intelligence User Experience PaaS
  • 8. • The content of this presentation is my sole responsibility & reflects my very personal thoughts... ni ng ar W • I do not work for IBM (and probably will never)... • I wanted to share some innovative usage of Informix we have been doing, please do not see this as marketing for either my company or IBM... • I wanted to do something different, I wanted to be innovative... • Consider it as food for thoughts... • (And tell me if you think I am nuts)
  • 9. Baby boomers Sociology • Baby boomers ‣ Born after WW2 ‣ Hitting retirement from now to 2025 • Informix and baby boomers ‣ Look at it with envy Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_boomers
  • 10. GenX Sociology • Generation X ‣ Me ‣ Typically people squeezed between Baby Boomers and GenY ‣ Victim Syndrom ‣ Born between 1961 and 1981 ‣ They listen to normal music, some are grunge • Informix and GenX ‣ Use it ‣ Love it Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X
  • 11. GenY Sociology • Generation Y ‣ “Kids” born after 1978 (early) to 1982 (consensus). ‣ GenY kids are no more after June 1995 ‣ They know everything about the world just after leaving school Journal du Québec, 22 jan 08 • Informix and GenY ‣ Isn’t everything running on MySQL? Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Y
  • 12. Now: Digital Natives Sociology • Digital Natives ‣ Born 2000+, aka Generation Alpha ‣ Tomorrow’s shoppers • Informix and digital natives ‣ You need s’thing? Just Google it...
  • 13. Coming to databases… Technology • Enough about sociology… gimme bits & bytes!
  • 14. Coming to databases… Technology • Enough about sociology… gimme bits & bytes! Baby Boomers
  • 15. Coming to databases… Technology • Enough about sociology… gimme bits & bytes! Baby Boomers IMS rules!
  • 16. Coming to databases… Technology • Enough about sociology… gimme bits & bytes! Baby Boomers GenX IMS rules!
  • 17. Coming to databases… Technology • Enough about sociology… gimme bits & bytes! Informix rules! (*) Baby Boomers GenX IMS rules! (*) You now know my AIM id
  • 18. Coming to databases… Technology • Enough about sociology… gimme bits & bytes! Informix rules! (*) Baby Boomers GenX GenY IMS rules! (*) You now know my AIM id
  • 19. Coming to databases… Technology • Enough about sociology… gimme bits & bytes! Informix rules! (*) Baby Boomers GenX GenY MySQL rules (**) IMS rules! (*) You now know my AIM id (**) Finally Oracle can rule somewhere
  • 20. Coming to databases… Technology • Enough about sociology… gimme bits & bytes! Informix rules! (*) Baby Boomers GenX GenY Digital Natives MySQL rules (**) IMS rules! (*) You now know my AIM id (**) Finally Oracle can rule somewhere
  • 21. Coming to databases… Technology • Enough about sociology… gimme bits & bytes! Informix rules! (*) If it ain’t on my iPad, it does not exist Baby Boomers GenX GenY Digital Natives MySQL rules (**) IMS rules! (*) You now know my AIM id (**) Finally Oracle can rule somewhere
  • 22. WTF, why are you telling all that ? Technology Does Informix apps have to look like that?
  • 23. WTF, why are you telling all that ? Technology In a world where apps look like these... Does Informix apps have to look like that?
  • 25. With LEGO, you can reuse your old bricks. My bricks can be mixed with my kids, creating a transgenerational bridge and a richer experience.
  • 26. Case #1: Alara Solutions Use Case • Synopsis ‣ Alara Solutions investigates and produces measurement reports based on the European standards for radioactive equipment. ‣ Tool for reporting measurement & building quality reports based on radioactive sources in hospitals, x-ray offices, dentists, etc. • Innovations ‣ UI - GWT ‣ 2 tier - Application Server - Database Server ‣ Infrastructure - Virtualization on Xen
  • 27. Case #1: Alara Solutions Use Case • Architecture Application Server Virtual Machine Virtual Machine Database Server + Informix Physical Hardware XEN internal Firewall web web browser browser
  • 28. Case #2: GreenIvory’s MashupXFeed Use Case • Synopsis ‣ MashupXFeed doubles the efficiency of web sites by bringing updated content automatically. ‣ Content is automatically analyzed, filtered, enhanced and published. • Innovations ‣ The process itself ;-) ‣ UI - GWT ‣ 3 tier - Application Server - Aggregation & Publication Server - Database Server ‣ Infrastructure - Virtualization on vmWare ESXi for Application Server - Pure Silicon for Aggregation & Publication Server - Pure Silicon for Database Server
  • 29. Case #2: GreenIvory’s MashupXFeed Use Case • Architecture Database Server MySQL Database Server Informix & MySQL Physical Hardware Linux Physical Hardware Linux Web Server Virtual Machine Physical Hardware vmWare Server Agg & Pub Server Virtual Machine Application Server Virtual Machine Physical Hardware vmWare ESXi end-user web browser Firewall admin We started by virtualizing the DB Storage and... web browser
  • 30. Case #2: GreenIvory’s MashupXFeed Use Case • Architecture Database Server MySQL Database Server Informix & MySQL Physical Hardware Linux Physical Hardware Linux Web Server Virtual Machine Physical Hardware vmWare Server Not the same virtualization Agg & Pub Server Virtual Machine technology? Application Server Virtual Machine Guess why? Physical Hardware vmWare ESXi end-user web browser Firewall admin We started by virtualizing the DB Storage and... web browser
  • 31. Case #3: Company A Use Case • Synopsis ‣ Company A is building a new way of creating documents, based on reusing ideas. • Innovations ‣ UI - GWT ‣ 2 tier - Application Server - Database Server - Hybrid datamodel ‣ Infrastructure - Virtualization on vmWare vmServer for Application Server - Pure Silicon for Database Server
  • 32. Hybrid data-model Use Case Application (consumer or API) • Mixed storage in both: Service Benefits of Lucene: many tools, natural interrogation, fast on full text discovery, easy ‣ Informix (all relational) Pojo Pojo manipulation & maintenance of storage. ‣ Lucene (text search) Database (RDB) Index (FT) Benefits of Informix: superb OLTP engine, replication available, very fast, reliable.
  • 33. Hybrid data-model Use Case Application (consumer or API) • Mixed storage in both: Service Benefits of Lucene: many tools, natural interrogation, fast on full text discovery, easy ‣ Informix (all relational) Pojo Pojo manipulation & maintenance of storage. ‣ Lucene (text search) Database (RDB) Index (FT) Why not TextBlade? Benefits of Informix: superb OLTP engine, replication Community, dependency, more complex available, very fast, reliable. storage...
  • 34. Case #3: Company A Use Case • Architecture Database Server Informix + Lucene Physical Hardware Linux Application Server Virtual Machine Physical Hardware vmWare Server Firewall web browser
  • 35. Case #3: Company A Use Case • Architecture Reason for virtualization: easy use of a development server Database Server Informix + Lucene Physical Hardware Linux Application Server Virtual Machine Physical Hardware vmWare Server Firewall web browser
  • 36. Case #3: Company A Use Case • Architecture Reason for virtualization: easy use of a development server Database Server Informix + Lucene Database Server Informix + Lucene Physical Hardware Linux Physical Hardware Linux Dev Server Virtual Machine Application Server Virtual Machine Application Server Virtual Machine Physical Hardware vmWare Server Physical Hardware vmWare Server Firewall web Firewall web browser browser
  • 37. Case #4: GreenIvory’s VoiceObserver Use Case • Synopsis ‣ What are people saying about you on the Internet? How do I measure trends in my online reputation? How Who are the bad guys? - Those are a few questions we try to answer. • Innovations ‣ UI - GWT ‣ 5 tier - Application Server, Collection Servers, Reception Server, Merger & Analyzer Server, Database Server - 2 nodes • Infrastructure ‣ Virtualization on vmWare ESXi for Application Server ‣ Pure Silicon for Collection Servers, Reception Server, Merger & Analyzer Server, Database Server
  • 38. What does it look like? Use Case Project Management Online reputation graph Full text query Full data access
  • 39. Case #4: GreenIvory’s VoiceObserver Use Case • Architecture Crawler Linux Physical Hardware Linux Dev Server Virtual Machine Database Server Informix + Lucene Application Server Virtual Machine Physical Hardware Linux Physical Hardware vmWare Server Analyzer Linux Physical Hardware Linux Firewall web browser
  • 40. Case #5: BuzzyAnt Use Case • Synopsis ‣ Media company seeking to enhance productivity with writers and increase web visibility. • Infrastructure ‣ Several servers for information & text processing. ‣ Informix as the data storage. ‣ Target websites are WordPress (could be Joomla, Drupal, custom web app).
  • 41. Case #5: BuzzyAnt Corporate website Use Case Available content on the Internet Automated publication on Twitter & Facebook Content Factory Publication on the corporate website. Gardening DIY Arts and Crafts
  • 42. Case #5: BuzzyAnt Corporate website Use Case Available content on the Internet Automated publication on Twitter & Facebook Content Factory Publication on the corporate website. Gardening DIY Arts and Crafts
  • 43. Case #5: BuzzyAnt Corporate website Use Case Available content on the Internet Automated publication on Twitter & Facebook Content Factory Publication on the corporate website. Gardening DIY Arts and Crafts
  • 44. Case #5: BuzzyAnt Corporate website Use Case Available content on the Internet Automated publication on Twitter & Facebook Content Factory Publication on the corporate website. Gardening DIY Arts and Crafts
  • 45. Case #5: BuzzyAnt Corporate website Use Case Available content on the Internet Automated publication on Twitter & Facebook Content Factory Publication on the corporate website. Gardening DIY Arts and Crafts
  • 46. Case #5: BuzzyAnt Corporate website Use Case Available content on the Internet Automated publication on Twitter & Facebook Content Factory Publication on the corporate website. Gardening DIY Arts and Crafts
  • 47. Case #5: BuzzyAnt Corporate website Use Case Available content on the Internet Automated publication on Twitter & Facebook Content Factory Publication on the corporate website. Gardening DIY Arts and Crafts
  • 48. Case #5: BuzzyAnt Corporate website Use Case Available content on the Internet Automated publication on Twitter & Facebook Content Factory Publication on the corporate website. Gardening DIY Arts and Crafts
  • 49. Case #5: BuzzyAnt Corporate website Use Case Available content on the Internet Automated publication on Twitter & Facebook Content Factory Publication on the corporate website. Gardening DIY Arts and Crafts
  • 50. Case #5: BuzzyAnt Use Case Content Factory PHP • Architecture Database Server MySQL Physical Hardware Linux Content Logisitics Java Database Server Informix + Lucene Physical Hardware Linux web browser Destination Website PHP Firewall Database Server MySQL Physical Hardware Linux
  • 51. What we went through Summary
  • 52. What we went through Summary • Issues with Informix Support ‣ OEM licensing in Europe is not as neat as in the US.
  • 53. What we went through Summary • Issues with Informix Support ‣ OEM licensing in Europe is not as neat as in the US. • Issues with disks ‣ Virtualized disks are weird beasts. ‣ Performance issues. ‣ Poor reliability. ‣ Miserable management (difficult to mix virtualized disk & physical disk on a SAN).
  • 54. What we went through Summary 4th - Database storage Database Storage • Issues with Informix Support space 3rd - VM's file system, e.g. ‣ OEM licensing in Europe is not as neat as in the US. VM FS EXT3 Hypervisor volume 2nd - VMFS on ESXi... • Issues with disks ‣ Virtualized disks are weird beasts. 1st - XEN on EXT3, Hypervisor FS wmWare Server on EXT3... ‣ Performance issues. Physical Disk ‣ Poor reliability. ‣ Miserable management (difficult to mix virtualized disk & physical disk on a SAN). • Tips ‣ Don’t mess with disks... ‣ It’s not only performance
  • 55. Why Informix was the best? Summary
  • 56. Why Informix was the best? Summary • Reliable
  • 57. Why Informix was the best? Summary • Reliable • Fast
  • 58. Why Informix was the best? Summary • Reliable • Fast • Transaction-oriented (OLTP)
  • 59. Why Informix was the best? Summary • Reliable • Fast • Transaction-oriented (OLTP) • Competition would be: MySQL, NoSQL?
  • 60. Is Informix ready for Digital Natives? Action
  • 61. Is Informix ready for Digital Natives? Action • GenY ‣ If we lose GenY, we lose Informix... it can’t wait another generation.
  • 62. Is Informix ready for Digital Natives? Action • GenY ‣ If we lose GenY, we lose Informix... it can’t wait another generation. • Call for action ‣ Speak about innovative projects w/ Informix. ‣ IBM to relay such projects & products.
  • 63. Is Informix ready for Digital Natives? Action • GenY ‣ If we lose GenY, we lose Informix... it can’t wait another generation. • Call for action ‣ Speak about innovative projects w/ Informix. ‣ IBM to relay such projects & products. • Should IBM give away Informix to startups?
  • 64. Is Informix ready for Digital Natives? Action • GenY ‣ If we lose GenY, we lose Informix... it can’t wait another generation. • Call for action ‣ Speak about innovative projects w/ Informix. ‣ IBM to relay such projects & products. • Should IBM give away Informix to startups? • Shouldn’t you contact your old college / university?
  • 65. Thanks! GreenIvory Europe http://www.greenivory.fr info@greenivory.fr +33 (0)9 50 53 10 34 GreenIvory America http://www.greenivory.com info@greenivory.com +1 (919) 901-0693
  • 67. Sources & Photos • Sources ‣ GreenIvory Internal documentation • Photos ‣ Lego Bridge, (C) Jean Georges Perrin
  • 68. Session Abstract Clearly, Informix is not a database which is only available for legacy applications, like POS (Point of Sales). In this presentation we will discover real-life example, state of the art applications using Informix.

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