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..and I thought Informix was dead in St. Louis.... http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/3EA65524ADC0E9668625722D001A79AE?OpenDocument ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sponsored Link Rates near 39yr lows. $510,000 Loan for $1698/mo. Calcuate new payment. www.LowerMyBills.com/lre
Informix in St Louis goes way back... Anheuser-Busch was so much in love with the product back in the 1980's they actually bought some version of source code from Informix, but I can't remember what release it was but they really had it wired up with a lot of C code and Informix. Very "pre" 4GL kind of shop. A-B had a really industrious effort in C, and Informix. They were doing a lot of UUCP email back before UNIX was really cool, shipping program payloads to remote sites, and all kinds of crazy UNIX stuff. Then they got into Visual Basic and trying to build distributor software that helped distributors manage a beer cooler at a store, with a kind of visual map of the cooler. They were one of the hot Informix sites in St Louis 15+ years ago but I'm not sure what they're using now. Jerry Hamilton wrote: > ..and I thought Informix was dead in St. Louis.... > > http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/3EA65524ADC0E9668625722D001A79AE?OpenDocument >
As well as the Informix effort A-B were also very big on Prime Information, in the later 80's (generally for the Brewery Maintenance IIRC) which morphed into Universe (AKA U2), yet another product purchased by IBM and now is very quiet. Not sure if they are still using that either. Regards --------------------------------------------------------------- ********** _/ ********** David Logan ******* _/ ******* ITO Delivery Specialist - Database ***** _/ ***** Hewlett-Packard Australia Ltd **** _/_/_/ _/_/_/ **** E-Mail: david.logan@hp.com **** _/ _/ _/ _/ **** Desk: +61 8 8408 4273 **** _/ _/ _/_/_/ **** Mobile: +61 417 268 665 ***** _/ ****** ****** _/ ******** Postal: 148 Frome Street, ******** _/ ********** Adelaide SA 5001 Australia i n v e n t --------------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: informix-list-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:informix-list-bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of Double Echo Sent: Wednesday, 22 November 2006 1:36 PM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Re: IDS Informix in St Louis goes way back... Anheuser-Busch was so much in love with the product back in the 1980's they actually bought some version of source code from Informix, but I can't remember what release it was but they really had it wired up with a lot of C code and Informix. Very "pre" 4GL kind of shop. A-B had a really industrious effort in C, and Informix. They were doing a lot of UUCP email back before UNIX was really cool, shipping program payloads to remote sites, and all kinds of crazy UNIX stuff. Then they got into Visual Basic and trying to build distributor software that helped distributors manage a beer cooler at a store, with a kind of visual map of the cooler. They were one of the hot Informix sites in St Louis 15+ years ago but I'm not sure what they're using now. Jerry Hamilton wrote: > ..and I thought Informix was dead in St. Louis.... > > http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/stor y/3EA65524ADC0E9668625722D001A79AE?OpenDocument > _______________________________________________ Informix-list mailing list Informix-list@iiug.org http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list