If your are an IBM Business Partner, ISV, OEM or VAD then you might be interested to hear the latest updates about the Informix business.

IBM invites you to join the 2011 business partner kick-off webcast on Thursday, February 17th, 2011. The focus of this webcast is to highlight the strategy around Informix for 2011 and provide a sales and marketing update. There will also be a special announcement for IBM Cognos partners.

The first article of a new series has been published on IBM developerworks. The new article series is about migrating a database from MySQL to IBM Informix Innovator-C-Edition.

The first article describes some of the major differences between MySQL and Informix:

• Comparing MySQL to IBM Informix Innovator-C Edition