Re: Whither Informix?

Posted in 2006

DA Morgan — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 11:19:09 -0800 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Serge Rielau wrote: > Tambi Dude wrote: >> Informix still outsells DB2/LUW, something which no one from IBM wants >> to talk about. > Tambi, > > do you have ANY data supporting that opinion of yours? > I don't doubt that noone at IBM wants to talk about it. This data is > well below the thresh hold of interest to shareholders. > > Daniel, > > In a market where 40+% profit margin is the norm investing every $$ > Informix earns back into Informix would be considered big investment. > That is NOT what I call milking a cash cow. That isn't what I said ... I said they will NOT INVEST MORE THAN. I didn't say IBM wasn't milking it for everything they could get. But a heavy dose of reality is required. Informix will, in the future, not support eBusiness Suite, PeopleSoft, Siebel, JD Edwards, etc. due to decisions made by IBM that favour DB2. How long do you think the folks here at c.d.informix are going to stand around the IBM flagpole when they finally realize IBM is saying the right thing and killing their product? You can't spin this forever. -- Daniel A. Morgan University of Washington damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond) Puget Sound Oracle Users Group www.psoug.org

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Neil Truby — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 19:53:26 -0000 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

"DA Morgan" <damorgan@psoug.org> wrote in message news:1162149549.991250@bubbleator.drizzle.com... > But a heavy dose of reality is required. Informix will, in the future, > not support eBusiness Suite, PeopleSoft, Siebel, JD Edwards, etc. due > to decisions made by IBM that favour DB2. And Lawson. And Informatica ... Your apportionment of blame is something of a moot point though. I think that IBM would *like* all these vendors to support Informix, but they, not IBM, have made the decision to discontinue support for Informix. You might argue that this is a result of IBM's lack of public support for Informix of course ... Whoever's fault it is, I agree with you 101% that the loss of TPV support for Informix will dramatically hasten its demise.

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Paul Watson — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 14:18:11 -0600 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

> "DA Morgan" <damorgan@psoug.org> wrote in message > news:1162149549.991250@bubbleator.drizzle.com... > > > But a heavy dose of reality is required. Informix will, in > the future, > > not support eBusiness Suite, PeopleSoft, Siebel, JD > Edwards, etc. due > > to decisions made by IBM that favour DB2. > AFAIK, PeopleSoft is supporting IDS again, and again AFAIK it's cos the users got pissed at Orifice Paul Watson Tel: +44 1414161772 Mob: +44 7818003457 Web: www.oninit.com GO FURTHER with DB2 GET THERE FASTER with Informix. Attend IDUG 2007 San Jose, North America May 6-10, 2006 Visit http://www.iiug.org/conf for more information.