Fw: Reuter's article - - - IFMX a mainframe company

Posted in 2003

Mark Denham — Thu, 11 Sep 2003 11:40:52 -0400 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

> > International Business Machines Corp. IBM.N unseated Oracle as the > > overall leader in total new database software sales with its > > acquisition of mainframe database vendor Informix in 2001. The > > company, along with Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O , has also been making > > gains at the low-end of the modern database market that Oracle has > > dominated. > I heard the engine was rewritten in cobol for this, but its probably a viscious rumor spread by the competition. sending to informix-list sending to informix-list

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Mark Townsend — Fri, 12 Sep 2003 03:09:06 GMT — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

> its probably a > viscious rumor spread by the competition. By 'the competition' you mean the DB2 guys, right ? Not sure that anyone else still regards Informix as 'competition'.