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http://www.greenivory.comJean Georges Perrin, CEO, jg.perrin@greenivory.com
Informix is not for Legacy Apps!Updated 2012
http://www.greenivory.comJean Georges Perrin, CEO, jg.perrin@greenivory.com
Informix is not for Legacy Apps!Updated 2012
Agenda
• Sociology 101
‣ What Informix sounds like to baby boomers?
‣ What Informix sounds like to GenX?
‣ What Informix sounds like to GenY?
‣ What Informix sounds like to Digital Natives?
• Innovation (Updated 2012!)
‣ 5 apps we did with Informix
• Is Informix ready for DN?
Who am I?
TEN4Alsace.org
ThinktankEconomieNumérique
• Jean Georges Perrin ● @jgperrin ● facebook.com/jgperrin
‣ IT engineer, (Serial) Entrepreneur, Lecturer
‣ Work in web since 1994, Informix since 1997
‣ Involved in the dev of local digital economy
‣ 1st in France, 4yr and running
•
‣ Builder of e-marketing tools
‣ HQ in
‣ Office in Durham, NC
Who am I?
TEN4Alsace.org
ThinktankEconomieNumérique
• Jean Georges Perrin ● @jgperrin ● facebook.com/jgperrin
‣ IT engineer, (Serial) Entrepreneur, Lecturer
‣ Work in web since 1994, Informix since 1997
‣ Involved in the dev of local digital economy
‣ 1st in France, 4yr and running
•
‣ Builder of e-marketing tools
‣ HQ in
‣ Office in Durham, NC
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The best content of the Internet, right on your web site.enrich the content of your blogs & web sitesease a regular updateenhance your SEO, both on quality & quantity
Don’t give your brand to others. analyze your notorietymeasure impact of your communication actionsbenchmark your brand to your competition
Your cup of information.discover the news that looks just like youkeep them in your immortal bookmarktake notes & share them
Easy to use tools!
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OnliGence.com
Advanced Services!
BigDataMashups
OpenData
CloudBrand Management
e-marketing toolbox
Automated Benchmark
IntelligenceWebMiningSocialMininge-marketing
Sell more!Let us help you
SaaS
PaaSUser Experience
ContentInbound Marketing
• The content of this presentation is my sole responsibility & reflects my very personal thoughts...
• I do not work for IBM (and probably will never)...
• I wanted to share some innovative usage of Informix we have been doing, please do not see this as marketing for either my company or IBM...
• I wanted to do something different, I wanted to be innovative...
• Consider it as food for thoughts...
• (And tell me if you think I am nuts)
Warning
Baby boomers
• Baby boomers
‣ Born after WW2
‣ Hitting retirement from now to 2025
• Informix and baby boomers
‣ Look at it with envy
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_boomers
Sociology
GenX
• Generation X
‣ Me
‣ Typically people squeezed between Baby Boomers and GenY
‣ Victim Syndrom
‣ Born between 1961 and 1981
‣ They listen to normal music, some are grunge
• Informix and GenX
‣ Use it
‣ Love it
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X
Sociology
GenY
• Generation Y
‣ “Kids” born after 1978 (early) to 1982 (consensus).
‣ GenY kids are no more after June 1995
‣ They know everything about the world just after leaving school
• Informix and GenY
‣ Isn’t everything running on MySQL?
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Y
Journal du Québec, 22 jan 08
Sociology
Now: Digital Natives
• Digital Natives
‣ Born 2000+, aka Generation Alpha
‣ Tomorrow’s shoppers
• Informix and digital natives
‣ You need s’thing? Just Google it...
Sociology
Coming to databases…
•Enough about sociology… gimme bits & bytes!
Technology
Coming to databases…
•Enough about sociology… gimme bits & bytes!
Baby Boomers
Technology
Coming to databases…
•Enough about sociology… gimme bits & bytes!
Baby Boomers
IMS rules!
Technology
Coming to databases…
•Enough about sociology… gimme bits & bytes!
GenXBaby Boomers
IMS rules!
Technology
Coming to databases…
•Enough about sociology… gimme bits & bytes!
GenXBaby Boomers
IMS rules!
Informixrules! (*)
(*) You now know my AIM id
Technology
Coming to databases…
•Enough about sociology… gimme bits & bytes!
GenYGenXBaby Boomers
IMS rules!
Informixrules! (*)
(*) You now know my AIM id
Technology
Coming to databases…
•Enough about sociology… gimme bits & bytes!
GenYGenXBaby Boomers
IMS rules!
Informixrules! (*)
(*) You now know my AIM id
(**) Finally Oracle can rule somewhere
MySQL rules (**)
Technology
Coming to databases…
•Enough about sociology… gimme bits & bytes!
GenYGenXBaby Boomers
IMS rules!
Informixrules! (*)
(*) You now know my AIM id
(**) Finally Oracle can rule somewhere
Digital Natives
MySQL rules (**)
Technology
Coming to databases…
•Enough about sociology… gimme bits & bytes!
GenYGenXBaby Boomers
IMS rules!
Informixrules! (*)
(*) You now know my AIM id
If it ain’t on my iPad, it does not exist
(**) Finally Oracle can rule somewhere
Digital Natives
MySQL rules (**)
Technology
WTF, why are you telling all that ?
Does Informix apps have to look like that?
Technology
WTF, why are you telling all that ?
Does Informix apps have to look like that?
In a world where apps look like these...
Technology
With LEGO, you can reuse your old bricks. My bricks can be mixed with my kids, creating a transgenerational bridge and a richer experience.
Case #1: Alara Solutions
• Synopsis
‣ Alara Solutions investigates and produces measurement reports based on the European standards for radioactive equipment.
‣ Tool for reporting measurement & building quality reports based on radioactive sources in hospitals, x-ray offices, dentists, etc.
• Innovations
‣ UI
- GWT
‣ 2 tier
- Application Server
- Database Server
‣ Infrastructure
- Virtualization on Xen
Use Case
Case #1: Alara Solutions
• Architecture
Physical Hardware
Database Server Virtual Machine + Informix
XEN
Application Server Virtual Machine
internal web
browser
web browser
Firewall
Use Case
Case #2: GreenIvory’s MashupXFeed
• Synopsis
‣ MashupXFeed doubles the efficiency of web sites by bringing updated content automatically.
‣ Content is automatically analyzed, filtered, enhanced and published.
• Innovations
‣ The process itself ;-)
‣ UI
- GWT
‣ 3 tier
- Application Server
- Aggregation & Publication Server
- Database Server
‣ Infrastructure
- Virtualization on vmWare ESXi for Application Server
- Pure Silicon for Aggregation & Publication Server
- Pure Silicon for Database Server
Use Case
Case #2: GreenIvory’s MashupXFeed
• Architecture
Physical Hardware
Database Server Informix & MySQL
vmWare ESXi
Agg & Pub Server Virtual Machine
adminweb
browser
Firewall
Application Server Virtual Machine
Physical Hardware vmWare Server
Web Server Virtual Machine
Physical Hardware Linux
Database Server MySQL
Physical Hardware Linux
end-userweb
browser
We started by virtualizing the DB Storage and...
Use Case
Case #2: GreenIvory’s MashupXFeed
• Architecture
Physical Hardware
Database Server Informix & MySQL
vmWare ESXi
Agg & Pub Server Virtual Machine
adminweb
browser
Firewall
Application Server Virtual Machine
Physical Hardware vmWare Server
Web Server Virtual Machine
Physical Hardware Linux
Database Server MySQL
Physical Hardware Linux
end-userweb
browser
We started by virtualizing the DB Storage and...
Not the same virtualization technology?
Guess why?
Use Case
Case #3: Company A
• Synopsis
‣ Company A is building a new way of creating documents, based on reusing ideas.
• Innovations
‣ UI
- GWT
‣ 2 tier
- Application Server
- Database Server - Hybrid datamodel
‣ Infrastructure
- Virtualization on vmWare vmServer for Application Server
- Pure Silicon for Database Server
Use Case
Hybrid data-model
• Mixed storage in both:
‣ Informix (all relational)
‣ Lucene (text search) Database (RDB)
Pojo
Service
Pojo
Index (FT)
Application (consumer or API)
Benefits of Lucene: many tools, natural interrogation, fast on full text discovery, easy manipulation & maintenance of storage.
Benefits of Informix: superb OLTP engine, replication available, very fast, reliable.
Use Case
Hybrid data-model
• Mixed storage in both:
‣ Informix (all relational)
‣ Lucene (text search) Database (RDB)
Pojo
Service
Pojo
Index (FT)
Application (consumer or API)
Benefits of Lucene: many tools, natural interrogation, fast on full text discovery, easy manipulation & maintenance of storage.
Benefits of Informix: superb OLTP engine, replication available, very fast, reliable.
Why not TextBlade?
Community, dependency, more complex storage...
Use Case
Case #3: Company A
• Architecture
Use Case
Physical Hardware
Database Server Informix + Lucene
vmWare Server
Application Server Virtual Machine
web browser
Firewall
Physical Hardware Linux
Case #3: Company A
• Architecture Reason for virtualization: easy use of a development server
Use Case
Physical Hardware
Database Server Informix + Lucene
vmWare Server
Application Server Virtual Machine
web browser
Firewall
Physical Hardware Linux
Case #3: Company A
• Architecture Reason for virtualization: easy use of a development server
Physical Hardware
Database Server Informix + Lucene
vmWare Server
Application Server Virtual Machine
web browser
Firewall
Physical Hardware Linux
Dev Server Virtual Machine
Use Case
Physical Hardware
Database Server Informix + Lucene
vmWare Server
Application Server Virtual Machine
web browser
Firewall
Physical Hardware Linux
Case #4: GreenIvory’s VoiceObserver
• Synopsis
‣ What are people saying about you on the Internet? How do I measure trends in my online reputation? How Who are the bad guys? - Those are a few questions we try to answer.
• Innovations
‣ UI - GWT
‣ 5 tier - Application Server, Collection Servers, Reception Server, Merger & Analyzer Server, Database Server - 2 nodes
• Infrastructure
‣ Virtualization on vmWare ESXi for Application Server
‣ Pure Silicon for Collection Servers, Reception Server, Merger & Analyzer Server, Database Server
Use Case
What does it look like?
Online reputation graph
Full text query
Full data access
Project Management
Use Case
Case #4: GreenIvory’s VoiceObserver
• Architecture
Physical Hardware Linux
Physical Hardware Linux
Database Server Informix + Lucene
Physical Hardware vmWare Server
Application Server Virtual Machine
Dev Server Virtual Machine
Physical Hardware Linux
Analyzer Linux
Crawler Linux
web browser
Firewall
Use Case
Case #5: BuzzyAnt
• Synopsis
‣ Media company seeking to enhance productivity with writers and increase web visibility.
• Infrastructure
‣ Several servers for information & text processing.
‣ Informix as the data storage.
‣ Target websites are WordPress (could be Joomla, Drupal, custom web app).
Use Case
Use Case
Available content on the Internet
Arts and Crafts
DIY
Gardening
Content Factory
Corporate website
Automated publicationon Twitter & Facebook
Publication on the corporatewebsite.
Case #5: BuzzyAnt
Use Case
Available content on the Internet
Arts and Crafts
DIY
Gardening
Content Factory
Corporate website
Automated publicationon Twitter & Facebook
Publication on the corporatewebsite.
Case #5: BuzzyAnt
Use Case
Available content on the Internet
Arts and Crafts
DIY
Gardening
Content Factory
Corporate website
Automated publicationon Twitter & Facebook
Publication on the corporatewebsite.
Case #5: BuzzyAnt
Use Case
Available content on the Internet
Arts and Crafts
DIY
Gardening
Content Factory
Corporate website
Automated publicationon Twitter & Facebook
Publication on the corporatewebsite.
Case #5: BuzzyAnt
Use Case
Available content on the Internet
Arts and Crafts
DIY
Gardening
Content Factory
Corporate website
Automated publicationon Twitter & Facebook
Publication on the corporatewebsite.
Case #5: BuzzyAnt
Use Case
Available content on the Internet
Arts and Crafts
DIY
Gardening
Content Factory
Corporate website
Automated publicationon Twitter & Facebook
Publication on the corporatewebsite.
Case #5: BuzzyAnt
Use Case
Available content on the Internet
Arts and Crafts
DIY
Gardening
Content Factory
Corporate website
Automated publicationon Twitter & Facebook
Publication on the corporatewebsite.
Case #5: BuzzyAnt
Use Case
Available content on the Internet
Arts and Crafts
DIY
Gardening
Content Factory
Corporate website
Automated publicationon Twitter & Facebook
Publication on the corporatewebsite.
Case #5: BuzzyAnt
Use Case
Available content on the Internet
Arts and Crafts
DIY
Gardening
Content Factory
Corporate website
Automated publicationon Twitter & Facebook
Publication on the corporatewebsite.
Case #5: BuzzyAnt
Case #5: BuzzyAnt
• Architecture
Physical Hardware Linux
Physical Hardware Linux
Database Server Informix + Lucene
Physical Hardware Linux
Destination Website PHP
Content Factory PHP
web browser
Firewall
Content Logisitics Java
Database Server MySQL
Database Server MySQL
Use Case
What we went through Summary
What we went through
• Issues with Informix Support
‣ OEM licensing in Europe is not as neat as in the US.
Summary
What we went through
• Issues with Informix Support
‣ OEM licensing in Europe is not as neat as in the US.
• Issues with disks
‣ Virtualized disks are weird beasts.
‣ Performance issues.
‣ Poor reliability.
‣ Miserable management (difficult to mix virtualized disk & physical disk on a SAN).
Summary
What we went through
• Issues with Informix Support
‣ OEM licensing in Europe is not as neat as in the US.
• Issues with disks
‣ Virtualized disks are weird beasts.
‣ Performance issues.
‣ Poor reliability.
‣ Miserable management (difficult to mix virtualized disk & physical disk on a SAN).
• Tips
‣ Don’t mess with disks...
‣ It’s not only performance
Hypervisor FS
Physical Disk
1st - XEN on EXT3, wmWare Server on EXT3...
Hypervisor volume
VM FS
Database Storage
2nd - VMFS on ESXi...
3rd - VM's file system, e.g. EXT3
4th - Database storage space
Summary
Why Informix was the best? Summary
Why Informix was the best?
• Reliable
Summary
Why Informix was the best?
• Reliable
• Fast
Summary
Why Informix was the best?
• Reliable
• Fast
• Transaction-oriented (OLTP)
Summary
Why Informix was the best?
• Reliable
• Fast
• Transaction-oriented (OLTP)
• Competition would be: MySQL, NoSQL?
Summary
Is Informix ready for Digital Natives? Action
Is Informix ready for Digital Natives?
• GenY
‣ If we lose GenY, we lose Informix... it can’t wait another generation.
Action
Is Informix ready for Digital Natives?
• GenY
‣ If we lose GenY, we lose Informix... it can’t wait another generation.
• Call for action
‣ Speak about innovative projects w/ Informix.
‣ IBM to relay such projects & products.
Action
Is Informix ready for Digital Natives?
• GenY
‣ If we lose GenY, we lose Informix... it can’t wait another generation.
• Call for action
‣ Speak about innovative projects w/ Informix.
‣ IBM to relay such projects & products.
• Should IBM give away Informix to startups?
Action
Is Informix ready for Digital Natives?
• GenY
‣ If we lose GenY, we lose Informix... it can’t wait another generation.
• Call for action
‣ Speak about innovative projects w/ Informix.
‣ IBM to relay such projects & products.
• Should IBM give away Informix to startups?
• Shouldn’t you contact your old college / university?
Action
GreenIvory Americahttp://www.greenivory.cominfo@greenivory.com+1 (919) 901-0693
GreenIvory Europehttp://www.greenivory.frinfo@greenivory.fr+33 (0)9 50 53 10 34
Thanks!
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Sources & Photos
• Sources
‣ GreenIvory Internal documentation
• Photos
‣ Lego Bridge, (C) Jean Georges Perrin
Session Abstract
Clearly, Informix is not a database which is only available for legacy applications, like POS (Point of Sales). In this presentation we will discover real-life example, state of the art applications using Informix.