Re: Oracle is KILLING INFORMIX...

} } Mike: } } I don't know where you reside, but if you are on the West Coast, you } are seeing what happens with years of questionable marketing and } sales. Oracle takes more responsibility in the sales process and } places significant importance on the major companies. Informix relies } to much on the "channel" and loses contact with the big guys. } } Informix may have had a superior product, but Oracle has effectively } gotten the big companies to believe that their product is superior. } They have gotten the big companies to buy and the big companies are } succeeding with their applications. } } Once they are hooked with Oracle, it is difficult for Informix to come } in and boot them out. But the opposite seems to be occuring with } Informix. Perhaps 5 years ago. Informix has become much better at marketing. We use a lot of it here. But then maybe you don't think of HP as a 'big guy'. cheers j. _____________________________________________________________________________ Jack Parker - Hewlett Packard, DMD/IS Boise, Idaho, USA jparker@boi.hp.com <--- New address _____________________________________________________________________________ If anything can go wrong, fix it. To hell with Murphy. _____________________________________________________________________________ Any opinions expressed herein are my own and not those of my employers. _____________________________________________________________________________