We met on Sept 24, and chose the next meeting date of January 15, 2014. Of course, we wanted to avoid December vacations/holidays so the first of next year made sense. We are still working out the details with respect to topics, speakers, etc.

The Sept 4th meeting was a great success! The attendance counted 20, which we felt was very good. The topic of the day was the "Informix Warehouse Accelerator", with 2 presentations from Mike Walker of Advanced Data Tools and Fred Ho from IBM. Topic suggestions for subsequent meetings were gathered, and everyone seemed to enjoy the lunch provided. IWA is an incredible offering from the Informix team that has been available for about 2 1/2 years. It is great for hybrid environments as well as warehouses.

The first meeting in about 8 years is on the calendar scheduled for Sept 4, 2013.  Focusing on the "Informix Warehouse Accelerator." This is the latest "new product" released by the Informix team, and it's potential is incredible. Offering "in-memory queries" amongst other leading edge features, it should play very well in all IDS environments - DW, OLTP, or mixed environments. The formal announcement is below:

Please join local Informix users at the next Colorado Informix Users Group meeting Wednesday, September 4, 2013, where the focus will be on the latest groundbreaking product from the Informix team - the "Informix Warehouse Accelerator (IWA)." You don't want to miss the benchmark results and architectural considerations for this product and its impact on OLTP, DW and hybrid environments
 
Speakers will include:

• Mike Walker - Advanced Data Tools. Mike will present his findings and methodologies for a recent IWA benchmark he performed. The numbers/results are quite simply "impressive."
  
• Fred Ho - IBM Program Director & Chief Technologist for the Informix Warehouse (IWA). (Informix Warehouse includes all Informix data warehouse products, i.e. IDS/IWA, XPS and Red Brick). He will discuss current IWA implementations and address future plans for IWA. Fred has been a vital part of the Informix product for many, many years. He will address future plans for IWA as well architectural considerations.
  

There will also be ample time for breakouts and Q/A sessions for "all things Informix."