Re: Informix Win32 products

Nils.Myklebust@ccmail.telemax.no wrote: > >Dear Informix. >This is rapidly becoming somewhat stupid. >The world is moving to 32 bit (Win 95/NT). >You apperantly have some 32 bit software. >You have hardly told anyone. >You don't have a real release of I-NET/Informix CLI/ESQL/C for Windows 95 >although the NT version seems to work. I just tried to get the CLI for WIN/32, and it does not exist yet. (Even for NT) >You don't seem to have separate releases of these products. >Although many are holding out on production on Win 95 we all want >to test it and compare to Windows NT. >Our customers ask - we have to say - no, Informix don't have that yet >(if you don't want to shell out for this ESQL/C development version >which isn't supported on Win 95). >The customers responce? ??????????????? What kind of company is that?#%$ >Judging from the number of questions about this and I-NET/ODBC in general >a lot of customers want these products. >Also with the new OnLine's for Windows NT coming... No official Win 95 >connectivity? > >Am I wrong in the above or what gives? It seems this should be relatively >easy products to release officially? And tell the world! >May be some priority on Windows connectivity in the new 32 bit world >would be a good thing. >As one who is moving to 32 bit Windows I would realy like to know >something. > To add to the above, (and I agree with Nils completely), you need to make connectivity to Informix easier. Lots of Microsoft Win/32 products ship with ODBC drivers for various DB's. SQL/Server is a given when you are buying Microsoft products, but Oracle drivers are included too. Where is the Informix driver? Here is a plan: Make I-Net stand alone, make it incredibly easy to install, bundle an Informix ODBC driver with every product in the world that uses ODBC connections, (ER tools, Query Tools, Compilers, Spreadsheets), make the driver downloadable from your web page! Stick it on the outside of AOL free trial disks, (those things are like cock roaches). And tune the driver so that applications can really take advantage of the things Informix does best. I love your database engines, but please make it easier to get at them from something other than a Unix command line prompt. Thanks for listening (I am sure your competitors are). .......................................................................... Erik Jones erik@anasazi.com "A Data Warehouse is the place where Anasazi, Inc. 602-861-7679 you store your buzz-words, acronyms, Phoenix, AZ USA and jargon"