Re: Who's using what?

Charlie Peck writes: > I am trying to research the Informix database market in an effort to > determine which versions of OnLine (5.x, 6.x, 7.x) are most prevalent > in the user base. We are considering writing a developer's tool > and the different capabilities (particularly between 5.x and 6.x) > would effect our design in a many ways. We would like to focus our > energies where the majority of the customer's are. Are there still > significant numbers of people using 5.x? Are they likely to > migrate in the next 6-9 months? > > Thanks for your help. > > charlie peck > charliep@earlham.edu INFUSE, the UK User Group will be doing a survey on this in our next newsletter. I suspect that there are still many developers using 5.x and that they will continue to do so until FORCED to migrate by INFORMIX. The reason :- IMHO DSA is much better for the larger user but small users do not get sufficient benefit for the extra work and cost. Malcolm Weallans