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The team that wrote this IBM Redbook

This IBM Redbook was produced by a team of specialists from around the world

working at the International Technical Support Organization (ITSO),

Poughkeepsie Center. The team members are depicted here, along with a short

biographical sketch of each.

Chuck Ballard is a Project Manager at the ITSO in San

Jose, California. He has over 35 years experience, holding

positions in the areas of Product Engineering, Sales,

Marketing, Technical Support, and Management. His

expertise is in the areas of database, data management,

data warehousing, business intelligence, and process

re-engineering. He has written extensively on these

subjects, taught classes, and presented at conferences and

seminars worldwide. Chuck has both a Bachelors degree

and a Masters degree in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University.

Carlton Doe has over 10 years of Informix experience as a

Database Server Administrator and 4GL Developer before

joining Informix in 2000. During this time, he was actively

involved in the local Informix user group and was one of the

five founders of the International Informix Users Group

(IIUG). Carlton has served as IIUG President, Advocacy

Director, and sat on the IIUG Board of Directors for several

years. He is best known for having written two Informix

Press books on administering the IDS database server as

well as several IBM whitepapers and technical articles. Carlton currently works

for IBM as a Sr. Certified Consulting IT Specialist in the Global Technical Partner

Organization. He lives in Dallas, Texas.

Alexander Koerner is a certified Senior IT-Specialist in the

IBM German Channel Technical Sales organization, based

in Munich, Germany. He joined Informix in October 1989.

He was instrumental in starting and leading the SAP/R3 on

Informix project, developed an Informix adaptor to Apple’s

(NeXT’s) Enterprise Object Framework, and has contributed

to the success of many strategic projects across the region.

Alexander currently focuses on Informix and SOA

integration, and 4GL/EGL, but he also actively supports

IDS, XML and DataBlade™ technology. His activities also include presentations

at conferences and events such as the IBM Information On Demand Conference,

IBM Informix Infobahns, regional IUG meetings, XML One, and ApacheCon.

Alexander is a member of the German Informatics Society and holds a Masters

degree in Computer Science from the Technical University of Berlin.

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Anup Nair is a Senior Software Engineer with the IBM

Informix Advanced Support team, Menlo Park, California,

working on formulating core strategies for OEM/Partners

using Informix products. He joined the Informix Advanced

Support team in 1998 and has over 15 years of industry

experience, holding positions in management, marketing,

software development and technical support fields.Anup

has a Bachelors degree in Computer Engineering and a

Masters degree in Computer Science from Pune University

and has a certificate in Project Management.

Jacques Roy is a member of the IBM worldwide sales

enablement organization. He is the author of IDS.2000:

Server-Side Programming in C and the lead author of

Open-Source Components for IDS 9.x. He is also the author

of multiple technical developerWorks® articles on a variety

of subjects. Jacques is a frequent speaker at data

management conferences, IDUG conferences, and users

group meetings.

Dick Snoke is a Senior Certified IT Specialist in the

ChannelWorks group in the Unites States. Dick has 33

years experience in the software industry. That experience

includes activities such as managing, developing and selling

operating systems and DBMS software for mainframes,

minicomputers and personal computers. His current focus is

on the IBM DBMS products and, in particular, the Informix

database products. Dick also supports related areas, such

as information integration and high availability solutions.

Ravi ViJay is a systems software engineer in the IBM India

Software Labs, working primarily on new features of IBM

Informix database releases. His areas of expertise include

design and development of applications using IDS. He has

also written specifications and developed integration tests

for new features of IDS releases. Ravi holds a Bachelors

degree in Computer Science from Rajasthan University.