IBM Data Champion Program

Eric Herber is involved with Informix technology since 1989. He started his professional career as a support engineer with a German Informix distributor. He made a side trip to technical marketing before joining Informix Software Inc. as an Advanced Support Engineer working onsite at SAP in 1994.

Since 1996 Eric is working as an independent Consultant specialising in IBM Informix database technology. He has written several articles about IDS as well as a German Informix book. In 2008 Eric received the IIUG Directors Award from the International Informix User Group.

Company
Datenbank-Consulting
Bonn, Germany

Expertise
IBM IDS, DB2 LUW, MySQL

Publications & Musings
Datenbank-Consulting - Eric Herber's Blog
Informix Dynamic Server Locking
Informix OnBar and Tivoli Storage Manager
Informix 11.5
Becoming a Certified Informix Professional, IBM Database Magazine
Database Trends and Application, Inside Informix V11.5
(complete list)

User Groups/Professional Associations
International Informix User Group (IIUG)

Conferences
Speaker at
IOD 2007,
IIUG 2008, and
IIUG 2009

Interests
Database and Web Technology, Mountainbiking, Soccer
Languages: German, English

Eric Recommends
planetIDS.com

Contact Information
eric@herber-consulting.de
http://www.herber-consulting.de