Boy, the folks at SL-King are on a roll. This hasn’t been announced officially yet, but the SL-King website, the Autodesk website and an FDO RFC (draft) all point to a new open source FDO provider for IBM’s Informix Dynamic Server.

The closest I’ve got to Informix is seeing it in an ESRI employee’s custom command prompt (“Informix Rules>” or something like that) at the 2001 UC, but I’m sure that this is great news for corporations that have data stored via the Spatial DataBlade. FDO increases transparency for Informix data, allowing simple web-based publishing with MapGuide Open Source, and updates and map production using desktop applications such as Autodesk Map 3D.

-J