A little old (Feb, 2007), but interesting

http://new.marketwire.com/2.0/rel.js...9&sourceType=1

IBM, AMD and Novell Team on Linux Offering for Informix Dynamic Server

ARMONK, NY -- (MARKET WIRE) -- February 14, 2007 -- IBM (NYSE: IBM)
today announced that it is teaming with AMD and Novell to create an
integrated Linux offering built around IBM's next generation Informix
Dynamic Server (IDS) data server, code-named "Cheetah." IBM also
revealed that Cheetah has now entered an open beta testing for customers
and business partners.

The new Linux offering will combine IDS Cheetah, SUSE Linux Enterprise
Server from Novell and IBM xSeries 3105 highly-scalable servers powered
by second-generation AMD Opteron 1000 Series processors to provide new
availability and security features in a low cost solution to help small
and medium businesses (SMBs) meet their critical needs.

"The IDS data server provides an environment with low administration
needs, which in turn lowers the total cost of ownership and frees up
DBAs to focus more attention on their overall Information on Demand
strategy," said Arvind Krishna, vice president IBM data servers. "IDS
Cheetah will build upon the IDS history of reliability with a broad
spectrum of high-availability options for business continuity and
advanced security. Information has become a strategic asset for
companies, IDS allows companies to truly leverage information."

Scheduled for release in 2007, IDS Cheetah is designed to offer new
capabilities to help customers meet their changing data management goals
by enabling users to extract more value from their business information.

"Data is at the heart of every business, and being able to access it
efficiently and reliably is paramount to success," said Terri Hall, vice
president, Commercial Solutions and Alliances, AMD. "The combination of
IDS Cheetah and the xSeries 3105 powered by AMD Opteron processors with
Direct Connect Architecture will provide customers with a
cost-effective, high-availability solution to meet their critical data
management requirements."

Cheetah features significant enhancements to application development
that are aimed at helping customers accelerate time-to-value for new
applications and in porting existing applications to IDS. Cheetah also
will offer extended support for applications collaboration and
integration for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Also included in
the new version will be enhanced support for hierarchical data
structures, built-in flexible text searches unstructured documents and
enhanced support for datatypes support for distributed queries across
multiple IDS instances.

"IDS Cheetah's support for open source applications development combined
with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server's high performance and reliability
will allow us to deliver to customers a solution to maximize their
application investments and to benefit from the vast application
resources available," said Roger Levy, Novell vice president and general
manager of Open Platform Solutions.

Early Cheetah customers include ProSiebenSat.1 Produktion, the
technology competence center of Germany's largest private television
company the ProSiebenSat.1 Group, who plan to utilize the
next-generation IDS data server to help manage their comprehensive range
of TV, mobile and multimedia production services. With the IDS software
simplifying and automating many database management tasks, the company
is able to employ only three database administrators.

"As a participant of the 'Cheetah' closed beta program, we are impressed
with the new capabilities that IDS will offer," said Markus Holzbauer,
senior database administrator for ProSiebenSat.1 Produktion. "Specially,
the high reliability and superb transaction throughput really appealed
to us. With the development of 'Cheetah', IBM makes it clear that IDS
continues to be a key strategic product in its portfolio."

IDS is a strategic element of IBM's Information Management software
portfolio and delivers exceptionally fast OLTP performance, high
reliability and low cost administration. IDS is a leading integrated
data server in many market segments such as retail, telecommunications,
healthcare, government, banking/finance, entertainment, and SMB. IDS
also delivers a broad spectrum of high availability features to ensure
business continuity for customers from SMB businesses to global
enterprises. The continued popularity and use of IDS is illustrated by
the fact that in North America alone, eight of the top ten retailers and
twenty of the top twenty-five supermarkets use IDS.

The new IDS Cheetah Linux bundle is expected to be available through the
ValueNet business partner program beginning in 2007. Specific terms on
the program are being worked out and will be announced at product
launch.

Customers, developers and partners can find out more about IDS at
http://www.ibm.com/software/data/informix/ids/new

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