Re: As the markets tank... Some Benchmark Stuff to distract you

Ian Michael Gumby wrote: > On Oct 4, 4:12 pm, DA Morgan <damor...@psoug.org> wrote: > >> Fact 2: Informix is dying. > > Uhm hate to break it to ya, Informix is dead and long gone. What you > meant to say was that IDS was dying. IDS isn't dying. > IDS is still growing and making money. That's the problem. In spite of > the programs set in place by Janet before her departure, IDS is doing > better than anyone anticipated. Its hard to kill a good product, even > sans marketing and sales by IBM. By your definition rdb is alive and well. And strictly speaking you are correct. Except that it is about as marginalized as Lotus 123 and WordStar which, no doubt, are also being used somewhere by somebody. The question, again to draw you back to reality from marketing hyperbole is: Pick 340 jobs Informix 310 jobs RPG 309 jobs There are probably more opportunities to make buggy whips. -- Daniel A. Morgan University of Washington damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)