IBM Informix 11.7
delivers grid and enhanced embed capabilities for industry-leading flexibility, reliability, speed, and efficiency

(IBM Software Announcement ENUS210-367, dated October 12, 2010)

Overview:

Informix V11.70 provides a powerful, reliable, scalable, secure and low-cost data platform for mission-critical business requirements. Informix V11.70 provides capabilities for better workload management, resource utilization, warehouse and security management as required by multi-tenant applications and service-oriented architecture (SOA) environments today for 24x7x365 operation.

Informix V11.70 delivers functions, values and quality. It delivers newlevels of performance, availability, and autonomy that will help meet customer's modern business requirements and help partners grow with minimal complexity and lower computing costs.

Informix V11.70 offers:

• More Flexibility: Informix V11.70 offers more options and choices to scale capacity, and to better manage and utilize resources. Further, Informix V11.70
provides new interoperability with several open source tools, bringing a broad set of choices for application development.
• Higher Reliability: Informix V11.70 offers enhanced autonomics and greater automation including during failure recovery.
• Higher Performance: With Informix V11.70, business transactions run faster and analytic queries run up to 50% faster than before.
• Greater Efficiency: With the ability to better utilize existing hetergenous infrastructure, an automated task scheduler, higher performance and further reduced administration requirements, Informix V11.70 offers a higher level of efficiency.

New in Informix V11.70:

IBM Informix V11.50 editions
deliver low-cost, feature-rich options for mid-market and large enterprise business solutions

(IBM Software Announcement ENUS210-189, dated dated May 25, 2010)

Overview:

New IBM Informix editions are now available to help deploy highly scalable, more reliable, and embeddable solutions at lower cost for mid-market and large enterprise business solutions.

IBM Informix Growth Edition V11.50

Informix Growth Edition is a high performance, more reliable, easier-to-administer edition of the Informix family that helps mid-market partners and businesses develop and deploy business solutions. Features include HDR, Enterprise Replication, SQL Warehousing Tool, Label Based Access Control, and clustering up to three nodes. These features enable a road spectrum of application and solution development.

IBM Informix Ultimate Edition

Informix Ultimate Edition provides enhanced capabilities over Informix Growth Edition, including capabilities required to run enterprise-level business applications. The Storage Optimization Feature (for Compression) is available as an option and may be purchased separately.

New no-charge editions

The following no-charge editions are now available as separate offerings subject to the IBM International License Agreement for Non-warranted Programs (ILAN).

IBM Informix Innovator-C Edition V11.50

Informix Innovator-C Edition is a no-charge, non-warranted production-ready, community-edition data server that is designed to help developers, mid-market partners, ISVs, and small businesses accelerate time to value and reduce total cost of ownership. Informix Innovator-C Edition is part of the IBM Informix data server family that is designed to support autonomic administration, higher performance, and greater reliability. It includes the powerful Enterprise Replication feature that helps replicate data between two Informix Innovator-C Edition installations for scalability and availability. It also includes Informix HDR with a warm or hot standby node for automatic failover.

IBM Informix Ultimate-C Edition for Windows® and Mac OS X

Informix Ultimate-C Edition for Windows and Mac OS X is a no-charge, nonwarranted, feature-rich edition for Microsoft® Windows and Mac OS X developers, solution providers, and ISVs. Features include Partitioning, Parallel features, HDR, Enterprise Replication, SQL Warehousing Tool, Label Based Access Control, and clustering up to two nodes. The Ultimate-C Edition brings database server capabilities to the mid-market, helping customers and partners develop solutions more easily and quickly.

IBM Informix Dynamic Server Workgroup Edition V11.50
offers enhanced security features and more pricing options for the Informix mid-market

(IBM Europe Announcement ENUS209-332, dated November 24, 2009)

Overview:

The Advanced Access Control Feature (ACCF) option is now included with the Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) Enterprise and Workgroup Editions V11.50 at no additional charge. The ACCF gives customers finer granularity of access controls to help protect sensitive and private data. Customers may create label-based access controls on sensitive and private data, facilitating management of data accesses. Access control can be defined at different levels from table to column, row, and even to specific data cells.

Businesses and governments with medium and enterprise size deployments on the IDS Enterprise and Workgroup Editions may more easily support security regulatory compliance efforts with the ACCF, using label-based access controls while helping to keep their infrastructure costs lower.

IBM Informix Warehouse V11.50
extends warehouse infrastructure capabilities and IBM Informix Dynamic Server
V11.50 adds storage optimization for Informix customers

(IBM Software Announcement ENUS209-142, dated April 28, 2009)

Overview:

IBM Informix Warehouse V11.50 brings to Informix customers a platform for integrated warehouse infrastructure with IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS), delivering data warehouse capabilities to business end users to optimize their business in real-time.

Informix Warehouse V11.50 is bundled with IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) V11.50xC4 and Informix Warehouse Feature V11.50. Informix Warehouse provides you with a warehouse platform with integrated tooling to help transform operational data; to build, deploy, operate, and maintain a data warehouse; and to deliver the managed information assets globally.

Integrated warehouse tooling capabilities include the Informix Warehouse Feature with: