Re: ouch, that hurts
Ian Michael Gumby wrote: > > > > Subject: RE: ouch, that hurts > > Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 11:02:09 -0600 > > From: NormaJean.Sebastian@tellabs.com > > To: dcruncher4@aim.com; informix-list@iiug.org > > > > Doesn't hurt Informix or DB2. > > Oracle is such a "beautiful" company to deal with.... > > We had SAP/Informix and SAP/Oracle. > > We had never touched DB2. > > In the last 6 months we moved the above SAP installs to DB2 9 LUW. > > . > > SAP may have pushed us from Informix, but we voluntarily left Oracle. > > . > > . > > . > > . > > (any opinion in this statement is mine, not my employers) > > . > NJ afraid to state her opinion? :-P > > Oracle has a lot of customers and according to the post that > datacruncher referenced, > is behaving like IBM did not too many years ago. > > I am amazed at the issues in 10. > But then again. Anyone remember IDS 6.x ? ;-) > Perhaps there's a parallel, only that Informix didn't force everyone > on to 6 from 5. > > (Somehow I do imagine that people will miss the point I'm trying to > make... ;-) Hey! I LIKED ODS 6.01! Besides, it wasn't nearly the debacle that IDS 7.10 - 7.12 or 9.10-9.20 were! It was 7.11 that originally turned folks at my former employer off to Informix. I had them all won over using 6.01, then we upgraded to 7.11 (and quickly to 7.12) and WHAM! Bug city. Art S. Kagel Oninit