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Cheetah 2: IDS 11.5 Boosts Informix's "Always On" Reputation
Carlton Doe

Informix Dynamic Server 11.5 plays to its strengths with simple and effective new features for availability and ease of use.
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MDM: Bringing Order to a Mixed Up World
Vincent McBurney

InfoSphere MDM Server sets out to undo the damage companies have inflicted on their most important assets: information about customers, products, partners, contracts, and more.
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XML Performance: A Surprising Ace in the Hole
Nelson King

Relational database storage brings RDBMS strengths to XML data. But older clumsier storage methods left application performance an open question. Two years after IBM introduced pureXML in DB2 9, that question has been answered.
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