Re: Informix job market?

Joe, though things are starting to get a tiny bit better over here, it's years that the Informix job market is next to nonexistent, in Italy. Oh, BTW, last close Informix was at $5 3/4, so you'd better hurry up... Ciao, Marco _______________________________________________________________________________ Marco Greco, Catania, Italy marcog@linux.ctonline.it rem radioterapia +39 95 447828 fax 446558 Informix faq http://www.iiug.org/techinfo/faq/informix.htm 4glworks http://www.ctonline.it/~marcog Informix on Linux http://www.ctonline.it/~marcog/ifmxlinux.htm Joe Lumbley wrote: } } I've been following the Informix financial situation since the beginning, } and have participated in all of the usual chauvinistic "Informix has the } best technology" discussions, as I'm sure everyone else in this group has } been doing for the last several months. At first, it seemed inconceivable } to me that Informix would go down the drains....then it became inconceivable } that other companies could just sit back and not snatch up Informix, especially } at just over $4 per share. Personally, I wish I had more money, to buy up } Informix stock while it's in the basement. } } I've noticed something, though, that may be important to all of us as Informix } professionals. At least in the Dallas area, the number of Informix-related } job postings seems to be at an all-time low. Anybody else seen the same thing? } It seems like my favorite barometer of the Informix job market, recruiter } postings in c.d.i (;-)=> , also seems to be depressed. } } What's the market looking like in everybody else's areas? } } Joe } } -- } --------------------------------------------------------------------------- } Joe Lumbley(jlumbley@netcom.com) author of: "INFORMIX DBA Survival Guide" } } Slaving away on "INFORMIX DEBUGGERS Survival Guide", available early 1998 } from Prentice Hall/Informix Press. If you have debugging tips, tools, or } ideas to share, please send me some e-mail. } ---------------------------------------------------------------------------