Re: INFORMIX WISH LIST

Chris Drauch wrote: > > > What about just giving copies of the FAQ to Informix? It's maybe pretty new, > cool stuff for them :-) The FAQ describes some **real** shortcomings; why not > simply fix it? > Why ask why? :-) They can get the FAQ, and of course they can download these ideas any time. But if you've followed the Informix story as long as I have, the energy level at Informix seems to have tapered off to a coma. In 1987 or so there was this crazy idea I had that I was working with a company who had all these intelligent geniuses working for them, and they were going to change everything about UNIX, and prove to the world that somehow you didn't need a mainframe to develop multi-user software. When I started working with 4GL, I had to constantly defend it. "Informix? never heard of them" was a constant litany. I remember when I would hear there was a company that actually bought Informix, and they were using 4GL. After the shock wore off, I would begin to think again that maybe they were on the way up. But for as long as I've known about Informix, their marketing has absolutely SUCKED. So, give them the FAQ? I would imagine many at Informix who don't even know it exists, or where to find it--your idea may not be a bad one. :-) Now, with all that's happened with the company, I really wonder where the intelligence has gone, or the company vision. It sure must be a bummer to work for a company that doesn't have a marketing plan, or public relations campaign, or a decent web site for developers. Absolutely abysmal. > some (more) points ... > > upper/lower, SP returning more than 1col/row, preview of estimated costs, > sqexplain logs with watermarks for costs and uid, anything better than > ontape/onarchive, installation & networking simplified/improved, CLI/ODBC > security enhanced, complete manuals in HTML format, perl with DBD:DBI > included in the distribution, SP language widely enhanced, execution plans > covering SP calls ... > > Yours SIL, > -- > Chris Drauch <cdr@xteam.co.at> ... just speaking for myself ... I'll add this to the list. And there's still plenty of time for more ideas and suggestions... Tim -- Tim Schaefer \\\\|// tschaefe@mindspring.com (6 6) ------------------------oOOo---( )---o00o--------- http://www.inxutil.com