Re: Dimmy vs Dumby: who's right? Or, who is more right? :o)

On Sep 3, 5:07 pm, Ben Thompson <b...@nospam.com> wrote: > Obnoxio The Clown wrote: > > The decision on which platform a developer will use will be influenced > by many factors but I think the thing that actually frightened senior > decision makers a while back was the sense that IBM was encouraging > people to migrate to DB2. Had anyone even heard of DB2 outside of the > mainframe? Usually senior people are happy to let their developers lead > the way, but there are certain times when they will intervene such as > this. They can also be influenced by salesmen (Oracle) and if they can > sell a few Oracle features, which may well be in Informix but aren't > being used by the customer, at the same time as pointing out (rightly or > wrongly) that Informix has no future, they're onto a winner. > > Ben. You have to define by what you mean by the "developer". If you define the term developer as the generic guy who writes the code, then the choice of database is irrelevant. The database is merely a persistence of the objects and any database that supports jdbc, hibernate, struts, etc ... will suffice. This is why I'm saying that you have to choose a niche where IDS shines and develop a story there. When you talk about seeding the market, its like growing a crystal.