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Publish Date
16 March 2009
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Author(s)
- Chuck Ballard
- Oluwatosin Ajayi
- Guy Bowerman
- Alexander Koerner
- Jacques Roy
- Dick Snoke
Chuck Ballard is a Project Manager at the International Technical Support organization, 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 Bachelors degree and a Masters degree in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University.
Oluwatosin Ajayi is a member of the IBM Informix Dynamic Server Development Team in Lenexa, KS. He has worked extensively on installation and deployment of IDS. Tosin has been closely involved with customers and business partners who have been deploying IDS as an embedded solution.
Guy Bowerman is an Informix architect and lab advocate based in Beaverton, Oregon. He works mainly on IDS installation, Windows and embeddability. Prior to this he has worked in a variety of Informix technical support and development roles in the UK, California and Oregon.
Alexander Koerner is a Consulting IT-Specialist in the IBM Germany Information Management Technical Sales organization, based in Munich, Germany. Joining Informix in October 1989, he was instrumental in starting and leading the SAP/R3 on Informix project and has contributed to the success of many strategic projects across the region. Alexander currently focuses on IDS virtual appliances, but also actively supports IDS MACH 11, IDS/SOA integration and DataBlade technology. His activities include contributions to several IBM Redbooks publications, presentations at conferences and events, such as the IBM Information OnDemand Conference, IIUG Conference, IBM Informix Infobahns, and regional IUG meetings. Alexander is a member of the German Informatics Society and holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from the Technical University of Berlin.
Jacques Roy is an IDS Technical Product Manager in Competitive Technologies and Enablement, in the IDS Development 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. He is also the author of multiple technical developerWorks articles on a variety of subjects. Jacques is a frequent speaker at data management conferences, IDUG conferences, and user group meetings.
Dick Snoke is a Senior Certified IT Specialist in the ChannelWorks group in the Unites States. Dick has 33 years of experience in the software industry. That experience includes activities such as managing, developing, and selling operating systems and DBMS software for mainframes, minicomputers, and personal computers. His current focus is on the IBM DBMS products and, in particular, the Informix database products. Dick also supports related areas, such as information integration and high availability solutions.
ISBN
0738432326
IBM Form Number
SG24-7666-00