RE: Informix + SAP history

Something tells me Dave that you have the answers to your own questions... Maybe Mr. Litel, he is the President of the IIUG and should be addressed properly, is using his article as a PR stunt to draw attention to the *big* IDUNG, I mean IDUG, conference that's coming up at the end of the month.... -----Original Message----- From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org [mailto:owner-informix-list@iiug.org] On Behalf Of Dave Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 9:33 AM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Informix + SAP history Yesterday, I received a copy of a magazine called DATABASE Trends and Applications. My eye was caught by an article entitled "Informix Deserves Support" written by Stuart Litel in which he decries SAP's pulling of support for new versions of INFORMIX . Upon reading the article, however, I was taken aback by some of the statements made that don't seem to jibe with history as I recall it. Specifically, Litel writes: ...SAP, which was written many years ago using Informix 4GL, and only ran with Informix in the first version, was abandoning all future Informix products. Until a few years ago, SAP had Informix embedded inside as it was needed regardless of which database the user employed. I worked for Informix from 88-97, and was involved in benchmarking SAP when they *first* decided to offer support for Informix in R3 after having only supported Oracle as the database. So I am confused as to what Litel is talking about in the article. Was SAP really originally written in Informix-4GL? And was Informix ever "embedded inside" SAP, present even when Oracle was the underlying database? Or by "Informix" is "C-ISAM" what is really meant (a far cry from what most people would understand as "Informix")? Regards, Dave sending to informix-list