Re: IDS Feature Request List (including potential new requests).

rkusenet wrote: > "DA Morgan" <damorgan@psoug.org> wrote in message news:1137533580.218834@jetspin.drizzle.com... > >>You just answered your own question. IBM got what it wanted from >>Informix ... a customer list and access to better technology than >>its own. The only thing left to do is extract as many dollars as >>possible from the legacy customers before setting them adrift (if >>they don't see the light and move to DB2). > > > Can you explain why IBM put so much effort to bring out IDS10. > It has lot of new features. If they want it to die, why bother updating > it. For e.g. IBM has decided that 8.5 will be the last version of > Informix-XPS. Now that makes sense if their agenda is to kill > the product. But this is not so in case of IDS. They are updating > it at regular intervals. > How much effort _was_ it ( or _is_ it ) really? Isn't everything going into DB2 that comes from Informix? What better way to production test features without impacting the real target of customers with 'live development' on a smaller niche segment that is guaranteed not to grow much if at all. As long as you have that niche of customers willing and able to test it for you, why not! You did hear that feature development has the requirement to be doable in DB2 as well as Informix didn't you?