New site for French speaking users

This article is written only in English (original version here)

Just a quick note to echo the creation of another Informix related site. This time is for all French speaking users. The site URL is http://informix.fr and the author is a well known member of the Informix community, Jean Georges Perrin who among many other things worked for Four J's (makers or Dynamic 4GL and Genero) and have been working in the IUUG's board of directors.

The site contains a forum (acutally two, one for technical questions and another for other discussions) and as far as my very limited French allows me to understand, it will count on some very experienced Informix people from France, like Eric Vercelletto, Laurent Revel and Olivier Bourdin (L3 Informix support).

If you speak/read French keep an eye on it, as I'm sure the people involved are able to guarantee high standards in the discussions and for sure interesting topics.
For better understanding the importance this can have, I remind you that there are many millions of French speaking people in places like France (who would say?!), Belgium, Switzerland, Monaco, Africa, Southeast Asia, some Pacific Islands and Canada. And of course there are many more places with people who can understand and express themselves in French (not my case). So the potential reach of this is huge!
France is also one of the places in Europe with L2 and L3 Informix support units. So there is a lot of Informix knowledge and talent there.

New French Blog / Novo blog em Francês

This article is written in English and Portuguese
Este artigo está escrito em Inglês e Português

English Version:

It's a great pleasure to present you another Informix blog. This one is written in French. The author is Eric Vercelletto, which was a colleague at Informix Portugal. Eric has a long history with Informix. We was working at Informix France and decided to join Informix Portugal mainly to participate in a big and complex project several years ago (before I joined Informix). After that we met and worked together on another customer. At the time I was working mainly with tools and he managed all the engine side stuff. When he decided to embrace other challenges outside Informix, I assumed his position at that customer. It was a big challenge for me (I had relatively low experience with the engine) and Eric was a great help. I still use some of his scripts today, and I learned many things with him.
But the world never stops spinning and currently Eric is back on Informix, and he's enthusiastic about it. I wish him all the best and I really hope he is able to share some of his knowledge about Informix with the community.
He decided to write the blog in French since French people like to take care of their language. This is great news for the French community. As for us, non French speaking people we can try our best to understand it. It would be interesting to see it in English also... (just a challenge Eric ;) ). But for now, the important it to keep a steady rate of articles. And I can assure you it's hard. Welcome Eric!

The blog address is:

http://levillageinformix.blogspot.com/

(something like "the Informix village")



Versão Portuguesa:

É um grande prazer poder apresentar-vos um novo blog Informix. Desta feita escrito em Francês. O autor é Eric Vercelletto, que foi um colega da Informix Portugal. O Eric tem um longo passado com Informix. Estava a trabalhar na Informix França e decidiu juntar-se à Informix Portugal, pricipalmente para participar num projecto grande e complexo há vários anos atrás (antes de eu ingressar na Informix Portugal). Após isso conhecemo-nos e trabalhámos juntos num outro cliente. Na altura eu trabalhava essencialmente com ferramentas e ele geria o lado do motor.
Quando ele decidiu abraçar outros desafios fora da Informix, assumi a sua posição no cliente. Foi um grande desafio para mim (tinha muito pouca experiência com o motor) e o Eric foi uma grande ajuda. Ainda utilizo alguns dos seus scripts hoje, e aprendi muitas coisas com ele.
Mas o mundo dá voltas e mais voltas e actualmente o Eric está de volta ao Informix, e continua entusiasta. Desejo-lhe tudo de bom e espero sinceramente que ele consiga partilhar algum do seu conhecimento Informix com a comunidade.
Ele decidiu escrever o blog em Francês porque os Franceses gostam de cuidar da sua língua. Isto são excelentes notícias para a comunidade Francófona. Quanto a nós, que não dominamos a língua, tentaremos o nosso melhor para o perceber. Era interessante ver o conteúdo também em Inglês (só um desafio Eric... :) ). Mas por agora, o importante é manter um ritmo constante de novos artigos. E posso assegurar que não é fácl. Bem vindo Eric!


O endereço do blog é:

http://levillageinformix.blogspot.com/

(algo como "a aldeia do Informix", o que vindo da Gália, trás boas recordações de criança)