Re: Company thought DB2 will be better than Oracle.

Posted in 2003

Blair Adamache — Wed, 17 Sep 2003 13:16:51 -0400 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

We actually bought Informix so we could get onboxio to cross-post to db2 newsgroups. Obnoxio The Clown wrote: > Neil Truby wrote: > > >>"Daniel Morgan" <damorgan@x.washington.edu> wrote in message >>news:1063632356.105378@yasure... >> >>>Neil Truby wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Sorry to go on about this, and I sense we're discussing theis point in >>>>circles, but there's no benefit to be accrued simply by acquiring the >> >>good >> >>>>people and technology and then doing nothing with it ..... >>>> >>>> >>> >>>They are doing something with what the acquired. It just may not be what >>>Informix developers and DBAs want: Time will tell. >> >>Killing it? >> >>Actually, I guess you mean "incorporating its functionality into that of >>DB2 UDB". >>But they're no longer talking about code merge. >>So they didn't have to buy the company to do this. >>Just a manual ... > > > Or they could have grabbed some of the development team. Nah, nobody would > be that unethical, would they? >

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Obnoxio The Clown — Fri, 19 Sep 2003 23:36:13 +0100 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Blair Adamache wrote: > We actually bought Informix so we could get onboxio to cross-post to db2 > newsgroups. You got ripped off. And it's _Mister_ Obnoxio to you. -- "C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien ' dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule" - Coluche