Re: flagship sunk

Michael Segel wrote: > Maybe he's thinking back to Henry Ford's old saying: "Any color model T you > want, as long as its black." (Or something like that....) > > But hey, what do I know? > > -G Spot on. But even now one of their biggest problems is the lack of differentiation. The marketplace for new license sales sees no difference between DB2 and Informix no matter what constructs a bunch of marketing-types try to spin up in a plush conference room. -- Daniel A. Morgan http://www.psoug.org damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)

DA Morgan said: > > plush conference room. You must visit a different part of IBM than I do. -- Bye now, Obnoxio "C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien ' dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule" - Coluche did i mention i like nulls? heck, i even go so far as to say that all columns in a table except the primary key could/should be nullable. this has certain advantages, for example, if you need to insert a child record and you don't have a parent row for it, just do an insert into the parent table with the primary key value (everything else null), and voila, relational integrity is preserved. but this is, admittedly, a bit controversial among modellers. --r937, dbforums.com