Re: IIUG - Linux and Informix

Marco Greco <marcog@ctonline.it> escreveu no artigo <5kk607$k40@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>... > Carlton, > The IIUG cannot stop here, and the ask the expert session at the IWUC is > not the right place to raise the issue. > (---------) > Also, as Nils eloquently pointed out in his reply to your previous posting, > the issue of Linux ports and Informix turning it's back to the low end market > (irrespective of the port) are two separate issues. > > I, like Nils, have a big app (used to run a radiotherapy department, as you > may guess) written using 4gl, and have chosen Informix some 8 years ago since > they were the best database on the low-end market (Just think about this: the > average RT department in Italy could do with only 8 users, a big one with 16) > and could scale very well at the high end. Informix has decided to throw 4gl > in the dust-bin (mistake #1) and decided to make the low end market pay > Informix products thru the nose (mistake #2) as a result, small installations > are not buying Informix products. > To be more clear, we are the only RT department in Italy using Informix > products. Others (Including the *Universita` Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, the > Pope's private clinic*) have seen my product, have said "Neat, how much do we > have to pay to have it here?", have heard the price and stuck to whatever they > had! (there's even a site using filing assistant, no kidding) > We will not upgrade to OnLine 7. > > In the early nineties, the market was full of small developers using Informix > products who would produce and sell applications to small clients, enhancing > Informix sales. At these prices, this will not come back, and Informix will > even loose the support and upgrades it is selling to small developers, as they > will turn to other products. > As for Nils, abandoning Informix will be very sad for me should I have to, as > Informix has great products. But it's Informix asking for our roads to depart, > not me. > > Don't want to support Linux, then be SCO, but *at reasonable prices*. My sales > will be your sales. > I applaud to the echo! Here, at Portugal, I have a large count of "Pope's private clinic" cases. I have a large app too, written using 4gl, and I face the same commercial brakes. (----------) > .................................... After all, Informix needs to understand that > *we* are among the first that need to be reassured about the way things are > going. > > Please, for ours and Informix sake, don't stop the discussion. > So, I don't break this thread's loop: Informix: my sales are your sales! > Ciao, > Marco > Manuel Pintor