How long a future? (was: An interesting meeting with IBM)

One thing that suddenly jumps out at me from this is: what on earth happens after 2008? Presumably the pressure to move to DB2 or get out could start within a couple of years of any code freeze - if 2008 ends up being the date of the last update we could be looking at IDS being desupporting as early as 2010. Maybe not that likely, but certainly possible. What kind of organisation is going to consider major new investment in Informix with that kind of life expectancy? Upgrades, sure, small systems, maybe, but big stuff? Am I being too much a harbinger of doom or does the panel share these fears? Andy Kent