More on Informix from Bloor Research.
Not a troubleshooting thread: a poster linked a Bloor Research/IT-Analysis article on Informix's prospects under IBM and invited comment. The only concrete issue raised was support for CopperEye's third-party indexing technology: Art Kagel reported IBM support told his site it was 'not invented here' and wouldn't be supported, unlike Informix's old handling of Excalibur. Madison Pruet (IBM development) replied it was too early to say how CopperEye would be supported, since developers only learned of it at the last user conference, while Neil Truby said an IBM UK Informix specialist had in fact worked extensively with CopperEye and UK test sites on integration. No clear resolution is recorded.
Auto-generated by DrWatson from the posts below — may be imperfect; read the full thread.
Hi All, I need a very very strong strong drink. Last time I was this surprised was when spurs won the league even though I was not born :-) Makes interesting reading. Comments please and more noise people. More noise :-) http://www.it-analysis.com/article.php?articleid=12379 Traveller
On 10 Nov 2004 04:25:39 -0800, vavavoom_th14@yahoo.co.uk (Traveller2003) wrote: >Hi All, > >I need a very very strong strong drink. Last time I was this surprised >was when spurs won the league even though I was not born :-) >Makes interesting reading. Comments please and more noise people. More >noise >:-) > >http://www.it-analysis.com/article.php?articleid=12379 > > >Traveller Interesting article . . . I liked the final quote where . . . . "To conclude: there is good news and there is good news - on the one hand there is new technology emerging to support Informix users, while on the other IBM is listening." Think IBM is listening? Seems that way . . . JWC
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 22:44:13 -0500, John Carlson wrote: > On 10 Nov 2004 04:25:39 -0800, vavavoom_th14@yahoo.co.uk (Traveller2003) > wrote: > >>Hi All, >> >>I need a very very strong strong drink. Last time I was this surprised was >>when spurs won the league even though I was not born :-) Makes interesting >>reading. Comments please and more noise people. More noise :-) >> >>http://www.it-analysis.com/article.php?articleid=12379 >> >> >>Traveller > > > Interesting article . . . I liked the final quote where . . . . > > "To conclude: there is good news and there is good news - on the one hand > there is new technology emerging to support Informix users, while on the > other IBM is listening." > > Think IBM is listening? Seems that way . . . One bit of bad news, IBM will not support Coppereye in the same way that Informix supported Excaliber. This means that if there is a problem IBM and Coppereye will be finger pointing all over out cringing heads. Ah well, nothing's perfect. Art S. Kagel
Art, It's too early to know exactly how Coppereye will be supported by IBM. We (i.e. developement) didn't even know about Coppereye until the last user conference. M.P. "Art S. Kagel" <kagel@bloomberg.net> wrote in message news:pan.2004.11.11.08.50.25.907379.1355@bloomberg.net... > On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 22:44:13 -0500, John Carlson wrote: > > > On 10 Nov 2004 04:25:39 -0800, vavavoom_th14@yahoo.co.uk (Traveller2003) > > wrote: > > > >>Hi All, > >> > >>I need a very very strong strong drink. Last time I was this surprised was > >>when spurs won the league even though I was not born :-) Makes interesting > >>reading. Comments please and more noise people. More noise :-) > >> > >>http://www.it-analysis.com/article.php?articleid=12379 > >> > >> > >>Traveller > > > > > > Interesting article . . . I liked the final quote where . . . . > > > > "To conclude: there is good news and there is good news - on the one hand > > there is new technology emerging to support Informix users, while on the > > other IBM is listening." > > > > Think IBM is listening? Seems that way . . . > > One bit of bad news, IBM will not support Coppereye in the same way that > Informix supported Excaliber. This means that if there is a problem IBM and > Coppereye will be finger pointing all over out cringing heads. Ah well, > nothing's perfect. > > Art S. Kagel
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 09:51:08 -0500, Madison Pruet wrote: Tell tech support please. Word here is we called IBM support and they said basically "It wasn't invented here and we didn't work with them on it, so we're not supporting it." Art S. Kagel > Art, > > It's too early to know exactly how Coppereye will be supported by IBM. We > (i.e. developement) didn't even know about Coppereye until the last user > conference. > > M.P. > > > "Art S. Kagel" <kagel@bloomberg.net> wrote in message > news:pan.2004.11.11.08.50.25.907379.1355@bloomberg.net... >> On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 22:44:13 -0500, John Carlson wrote: >> >> > On 10 Nov 2004 04:25:39 -0800, vavavoom_th14@yahoo.co.uk (Traveller2003) >> > wrote: >> > >> >>Hi All, >> >> >> >>I need a very very strong strong drink. Last time I was this surprised > was >> >>when spurs won the league even though I was not born :-) Makes > interesting >> >>reading. Comments please and more noise people. More noise :-) >> >> >> >>http://www.it-analysis.com/article.php?articleid=12379 >> >> >> >> >> >>Traveller >> > >> > >> > Interesting article . . . I liked the final quote where . . . . >> > >> > "To conclude: there is good news and there is good news - on the one > hand >> > there is new technology emerging to support Informix users, while on the >> > other IBM is listening." >> > >> > Think IBM is listening? Seems that way . . . >> >> One bit of bad news, IBM will not support Coppereye in the same way that >> Informix supported Excaliber. This means that if there is a problem IBM > and >> Coppereye will be finger pointing all over out cringing heads. Ah well, >> nothing's perfect. >> >> Art S. Kagel
"Art S. Kagel" <kagel@bloomberg.net> wrote in message news:pan.2004.11.11.17.28.28.89496.1355@bloomberg.net... > On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 09:51:08 -0500, Madison Pruet wrote: > > Tell tech support please. Word here is we called IBM support and they > said > basically "It wasn't invented here and we didn't work with them on it, so > we're not supporting it." In fact, one of the top Informix technicians at IBM UK worked extensively with them and with test sites in the UK to integrate their technology into an Informix database.