You may have seen a recent announcement on ibm.com that says IBM would no longer be marketing it's older data replication products in 2013.  That includes InfoSphere CDC.  Why?  And what happens to the CDC technology?

 

Over the years, IBM provided its data replication technologies through a lot of different products.  For example, IBM used to offer two major data replication products at the same time - InfoSphere CDC and InfoSphere Replication Server.  That was a little confusing, even to some IBM people.  To simplify the situation, IBM consolidated all it's replication technologies into a single product called IBM InfoSphere Data Replication (IIDR).  Once IIDR was available, the older products no longer needed to be sold to new customers.  That's why the end of marketing was announced.  However, the replication technologies - CDC, Q Replication, and SQL Replication - are still alive and well.  You can continue to use them as you always have.  Of course, you may have two related questions:

 

 If you have any questions, feel free to post them in the comments section of this blog.