Re: Informix quits Windows end of market??

OK, Here's Informix's sekret plan. Don't tell Boris or Natasha! Informix wants to confuse their competition by saying one thing and doing the exact opposite. (They saw it work in a Monty Python Sketch! ;-) For those not in Europe, 5/3/98 is 3/5/98 ! I think that there is some misconception with Informix. Cutting 1,000 jobs means about 30% of their workforce. I know that they lost 200 people due to attrition and some due to beheadings, disembowelment, seppeku (?sp?), exposure to biotoxins, etc ... (Informix, once your in, you can never get out alive! ;-) But they seem to want to be building a consulting/professional services group. So take what you read/hear with a grain of salt. -Mikey (Tongue is always in cheek!) Paul Watson wrote: > Source Computer Weekly 5/3/98 > > "Database supplier Informix said it would move out of the low end of the > market for systems running in Microsoft's Window NT, an concentrate on > the higher end, which remains mainly Unix-based. Chief Executive Robert > Finocchio said the bottom end of the market was becoming dominated by > Microsoft's database products. Informix returned to profit inthe fourth > quarter, after shedding about 1,000 staff and shutting some offices" > > I know there's been some recent chat about Informix loosing/keeping SCO > support etc, but I haven't seen the loss of NT mentioned - maybe I > missed it. > > -- > Paul Watson # > WF Software Ltd # It said run using Windows 95 > Tel: +44 1436 674629 # or better in the manual > Fax: +44 1436 678693 # so I used Unix > www.wfsoftware.co.uk #