RE: Off-Topic: Informix Stock

Hmmmmmmm. I've thought about this one too. See below . . . > -----Original Message----- > From: Joe Lumbley [SMTP:jlumbley@netcom11.netcom.com] > Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 4:51 PM > To: informix-list@iiug.org > Subject: Off-Topic: Informix Stock > > > Folks, > > I know I'm probably going to get a lot of feedback on this, but I'd like > to have a reality check here before I go and blow a lot of money. I know > many of you and respect your opinions. (At least I'll have the excuse > that I did my "due diligence" ;) > > Just about all of us have a love-hate relationship with Informix. We > scream about problems with the products, we scream about management, > but most of us are probably using the products and my bet is we're mostly > still > pretty much believers from the technical side. From the stockholder's > side, it's almost like a deathwatch. > So far, so good. I've had no major problems with the products and only a few minor problems. I believe that the technology is sound and that the products are (at least) just as good as anything else on the market. I haven't played with IDS2000 yet, so I'm looking forward to play with some of the newer toys out there. > Informix just closed at 4 1/4 today. During the last runup I > wished I had bought right after the stock crashed after the > accounting problem. Am I being a complete idiot and Informix > chauvinist to think that we're looking at a hell of an opportunity > to make some money here? I've been watching the IFMX message board on > Yahoo, and it's all a bunch of cheerleaders with axes to grind. > Chauvinist? I've been called a bigot because I'm not willing to embrace change (change over to the other major database player). But that's a totally different thread. I too have considered buying Informix stock. I still think that IFMX has promise as a company and I'm not totally willing to write them off yet. From the technology side, IFMX has outstanding products and good tech support. In the long term, I believe they'll be around. My only questions have to do with upper management (where are we going?) and marketing (who are we??). Besides, I've gotten my wife's opinion as well. (She has some kinds of business / fiscal sense.) She's wondering why I haven't bought yet. Besides, one can't accuse her of a technical bias. other than what she's heard from me . . . . . 8-) Another place to research would be the Fools message board for IFMX. Interesting article and interesting board. Here's where I started: http://www.fool.com/news/2000/ifmx000703.htm > You Informix employees be careful on this thread. IFMX is suing > to get the names of some of the posters on Yahoo (If you believe anything > that's said on the Yahoo board), so you probably shouldn't even respond to > this > thread. > Another lawsuit? I don't believe that I've heard anything about this one. Care to enlighten me? John Carlson Informix DBA WHSmith USA /* These are my own ramblings, not those of my company. I'm also not an accountant, nor a stockbroker, just a DBA. */