Re: SE at EOL?

Posted in 2004

rkusenet — Wed, 4 Aug 2004 09:23:45 -0400 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

"Peter Michel" <proORGA-Leimen.without-this@web.de> wrote in message news:jdg1h0tj66litspeo86kua38bncald6rb3@4ax.com... > Hi, > today i got a call from our distributor, who offers us a change from > SE -> IDS WE for 50% of the price. He told us that SE will not further > developed by IBM. SE wasn't developed for many years. I think since late 1990s, all SE changes have been cosmetic. May be something important like > 2GB dat and idx files. In terms of functionality or SQL enhancement, there has been no improvement in SE for more than a decade. For e.g., I don't think SE supports CASE statements in SQL. However it is a great product for small systems. I loved it when I worked with it till 1994. IBM can easily make it open source. It can give a good competition to MySQL. > The 50% action will run until end of 2004. > There are any infos out in the world? Would be nice to hear of it! > Cheers Peter