Go on a Safari with IBM IDS Cheetah - Download the Cheetah Test Run Now

The next generation of IBM's Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) - code-named "Cheetah" is now available for an open test run:

http://www.ibm.com/software/data/informix/ids/new

Customers have always appreciated the legendary reliability of IDS. Scalability, ease of administration, blazing OLTP performance and the range of application development options make IDS the data server of choice for integrated solutions. These are some of the reasons that IDS is already the data server of choice for thousands of retail, telecommunications, government, healthcare and small business solutions. In fact, eight of the top ten retailers and twenty of the top twenty-five supermarkets in North America are IDS customers.

The IDS Cheetah "Administration Free Zone" makes it easier than ever to manage distributed environments with minimal remote administration, delivering these features and more:

• Easily integrate database administration tasks into the application using the new SQL administration API
• Schedule standard tasks automatically or conditionally with the new Scheduler
• Improve performance with non-blocking checkpoints and increased parallelism for Enterprise Replication
• Monitor performance with new SQL Tracing enhancements
• Extend business continuity with multiple remote standalone secondary servers

Beta participants are already providing positive feedback about the enhancements available in IDS Cheetah. Learn more about how IDS can reduce your application deployment costs and register to download the IDS Cheetah test run at:

http://www.ibm.com/software/data/informix/ids/new