Stupid and foolish move from Informix

We are developer on NeXTstep OS. In the past couple of year we have developed an application for automation in the television industry. We have used Informix-SE and Informix ESQL-C for doing our development. Those product have been available for NeXTstep on NeXT hardware since a year. Informix is not the database of choice on NeXTstep for many reasons: 1- Informix have took a long time to port on NeXT. Two other RDBMS where available long before (Oracle and Sybase). 2- NeXT has launch a wonderful database tool call database kit. Filters for database kit are simple piece of software that need to be provided from database vendor. Oracle and Sybase ship theirs with NeXTstep. Informix has not made that product available at all; even though a programmer of Informix in Munich (Germany) has developed it, we have it and it works fine. Now NeXT has made a move from a Software/Hardware company to a software only company. NeXTSTEP is now available on Intel' 486 based PCs. To port an application from one NeXTSTEP platform to the other is a simple port, but, again, Informix is slow and is not interested to do that simple thing. The development of our products is complete. From now on we have order for many copies of our product. But now, because of a political matter from Informix we are stuck with a database that will not follow evolution. We will now change of database, and believe me, never again will I use or recommend any of the Informix product. With their weak marketing policy and inconsequent decision no wonder they trail behind other vendor in the market and i predict their situation will decay. Thanks. A very frustrated former Informix developer. Stephane Savard Director R&D Planon Telexpertise Inc. 1370 Joliot-Curie #708 Boucherville, Quebec Canada, J4B 7L9 Email: stephane@planon.qc.ca (NeXTmail accepted and appreciated!) -- Yanik Crepeau Programmer Planon Telexpertise E-Mail: yanik@planon.qc.ca (NeXT)