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Publish Date
11 June 2008
Last Update
13 April 2009
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Author(s)
- Chuck Ballard
- Jacques Roy
- Rosario Annino
- Alan Caldera
- Sergio Dias
- Vinayak Shenoi
- Santosh Sajip
- Robert Uleman
- Suma Vinod
Chuck Ballard is a Project Manager at the ITSO in San Jose, California. He has over 35 years experience, holding positions in the areas of product engineering, sales, marketing, technical support, and management. His expertise is in the areas of database, data management, data warehousing, business intelligence, and process re-engineering. He has written extensively on these subjects, taught classes, and presented at conferences and seminars worldwide. Chuck has both a bachelor degree and a master degree in industrial engineering from Purdue University.
Jacques Roy is a member of the IBM worldwide sales enablement organization. He is the author of "IDS.2000: Server-Side Programming in C" and the lead author of "Open-Source Components for IDS 9.x." Jacques is also the author of multiple technical IBM developerWorks articles on a variety of subjects. He is a frequent speaker at data management conferences, IDUG conference, and users group meetings.
Rosario Annino is an IBM Certified Solutions Expert for IDS and DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows (LUW). He is located at the Informix Lab in Bedfont, London, England. With more than 15 years experience in the software industry, Rosario has held positions as a programmer, analyst, and data warehouse administrator. He is currently in a technical support group providing level 2 support for the Informix product line. He is moving into Project Management and is already covering positions as a project manager. Rosario received a master degree in computer science in 1996 from the University of Catania, Italy.
Alan Caldera is currently a team lead for the IBM Informix DataBlade development group and member of the IDS Architecture Board. He has over 20 years of experience in the IT industry as a software developer, database administrator, and consultant. Alan joined the Informix Software Professional Services Organization in 1998 as a consultant, working with customers and business partners on DataBlade implementations, application design, replication, and IDS performance tuning. He holds a bachelor degree in computer science from Indiana University.
Sergio Dias is a Software Engineer with certifications in IBM DB2 and Informix database servers, and over 25 years experience in hardware and software development, consulting, technical support, and software quality assurance (QA). He joined Informix Software, Brazil in 1995, and then moved to Miami as an Advanced Support Engineer for Latin America, the Caribbean, and Canada. Sergio currently works on the Informix QA team on High Availability and Data Replication technologies. He holds a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Electronics Engineering from the Instituto Tecnol—gico de Aeron‡utica in Brazil.
Vinayak Shenoi is team lead for the IBM Informix Dynamic Server SQL and Extensibility components. He has led the development of many features in the SQL, distributed queries, DRDA, Java, and extensibility components of IDS. Vinayak previously contributed to the Redbooks publication Informix Dynamic Server V10 . . . Extended Functionality for Modern Business, SG24-7299. He holds a master degree in computer science from California State University in Sacramento.
Santosh Sajip is a Senior Software Engineer with the IBM Informix Resolution team, in San Jose, California. He began his career as a member of the Informix XPS Advanced Support team in 1998 and now has over 13 years of experience in the software development and technical support field. Santosh holds a master degree in computer science from the University of Pune in India.
Robert Uleman is a member of the Information Management Worldwide Technical Sales team, focusing on spatial and spatio-temporal data management. He is a frequent contributor to publications and conferences for the geographic information systems (GIS) and location-based services (LBS) industries. Robert worked for Informix Software as a product development manager, responsible for the Geodetic, R-tree, Time Series, Video, and Image DataBlades. In his 24-year career, he has developed software products for GIS, image processing, and geophysical data processing. He holds master degrees in exploration geophysics (Stanford University) and applied physics (Delft University of Technology).
Suma Vinod is a Senior Software Engineer in the IBM World Wide Resolution team providing advanced technical support, product development, training, and defect fixing for Informix products. She joined the Informix Advanced Support team in July 1998 and has about 13 years of experience in software development and support. Suma holds bachelor degrees in computer science and engineering from Kerala University in India.
ISBN
0738485896
IBM Form Number
SG24-7522-00