Re: Reuter's article - - - IFMX a mainframe company

Posted in 2003

Hal Maner — Wed, 10 Sep 2003 21:27:40 GMT — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

I see quite often some people refer to anything that is not a Wintel box as a "mainframe", i.e. including all the Unix servers out there... Hal Maner M Systems International, Inc. www.msystemsintl.com "John Carlson" <john_carlson@whsmithusa.com> wrote in message news:dd3vlvsnd9ujsj8etlvaddt67adnpa7uvj@4ax.com... > Here's the quote . . . . > > International Business Machines Corp. IBM.N unseated Oracle as the > overall leader in total new database software sales with its > acquisition of mainframe database vendor Informix in 2001. The > company, along with Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O , has also been making > gains at the low-end of the modern database market that Oracle has > dominated. > > Here's the link . . . > http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=3408733 > > I didn't know that Informix was a mainframe company . . . .8-)