Re: Re: IDS to DB2 conversion
Not a technical support thread but a discussion/gripe session. Someone asked whether anyone could name a real site that migrated from Informix IDS to DB2; a poster answered with a link to an IBM case study (a university running PeopleSoft on IDS/pSeries). Readers picked it apart, noting the customer had "years of exceptional performance" from IDS yet only evaluated Oracle, SQL Server and DB2, and joked that discounts explained the choice. A side complaint was the poster's MIME/base64-encoded message being unreadable in newsreaders. No resolution or conclusion is recorded.
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=____1075759073877_GeTZCo6iWV Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit http://www-306.ibm.com/software/success/cssdb.nsf/CS/TKNC-5Q5PWE?OpenDocument&Site=dmmain > > From: andykent.bristol@virgin.net (Andy Kent) > Date: 2004/02/02 Mon AM 03:24:14 CST > To: informix-list@iiug.org > Subject: Re: IDS to DB2 conversion > > ------=____1075759073877_GeTZCo6iWV Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Type: null; name="replyAll" Content-Disposition: inline; filename="replyAll" I wonder whether any of the assembled masses can name one (a site that's converted from IDS to DB2). I'd be genuinely interested to know. Andy "Hamilton, Jerry" <hamiltoj@fleishman.com> wrote in message news:<bvdsbv$bg2$1@terabinaries.xmission.com>... > Zero > > -----Original Message----- > From: andykent.bristol@virgin.net [mailto:andykent.bristol@virgin.net] > Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 2:25 AM > To: informix-list@iiug.org > Subject: Re: IDS to DB2 conversion > > > "Mark Denham" <mkdenham@comcast.net> wrote in message > news:<bvb4fq$ep$1@terabinaries.xmission.com>... > > > You can bet that IBM kissed their royal ass when > > it came to getting them to convert - especially if they are well known > > to the Informix community. > > But just how many of these high-profile sites have you heard actually > convert to DB2? > > > Andy > sending to informix-list ------=____1075759073877_GeTZCo6iWV-- sending to informix-list
vze2qjg5@verizon.net wrote: > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > ------=____1075759073877_GeTZCo6iWV > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >> >> From: andykent.bristol@virgin.net (Andy Kent) >> Date: 2004/02/02 Mon AM 03:24:14 CST >> To: informix-list@iiug.org >> Subject: Re: IDS to DB2 conversion >> >> > > ------=____1075759073877_GeTZCo6iWV > Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 > Content-Type: null; > name="replyAll" > Content-Disposition: inline; > filename="replyAll" > > I wonder whether any of the assembled masses can name one (a site > that's converted from IDS to DB2). I'd be genuinely interested to > know. > > Andy > > > "Hamilton, Jerry" <hamiltoj@fleishman.com> wrote in message news:<bvdsbv$bg2$1@terabinaries.xmission.com>... > > Zero > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: andykent.bristol@virgin.net [mailto:andykent.bristol@virgin.net] > > Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 2:25 AM > > To: informix-list@iiug.org > > Subject: Re: IDS to DB2 conversion > > > > > > "Mark Denham" <mkdenham@comcast.net> wrote in message > > news:<bvb4fq$ep$1@terabinaries.xmission.com>... > > > > > You can bet that IBM kissed their royal ass when > > > it came to getting them to convert - especially if they are well known > > > to the Informix community. > > > > But just how many of these high-profile sites have you heard actually > > convert to DB2? > > > > > > Andy > > sending to informix-list > ------=____1075759073877_GeTZCo6iWV-- Kerrist, Jack, I think it's time to lay off the sauce... :o) > sending to informix-list -- "C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien ' dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule" - Coluche
Neil Truby wrote: > <vze2qjg5@verizon.net> wrote in message > news:bvmhun$4ed$1@terabinaries.xmission.com... >> > http://www-306.ibm.com/software/success/cssdb.nsf/CS/TKNC-5Q5PWE?OpenDocument&Site=dmmain > > "Previously, SCU powered its PeopleSoft application with IBM Informix > Dynamic Server (IDS) running on IBM pSeries systems. After years of > exceptional performance from its IDS and pSeries system, SCU felt > confident in including IBM in its evaluation process for a new information > management solution. > > For due diligence, SCU considered several vendors, eventually narrowing > its options to Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server and IBM DB2 Universal > Database." > > Er .... er .... let's recap here: they've had "years of exceptional > performance" from IDS so when they decided to upgrade ... they didn't > evaluate IDS!! > Why would that be then? It couldn't possibly be because the sales droid would give them a stonking discount if they didn't... -- "C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien ''' dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule" - Coluche
<vze2qjg5@verizon.net> wrote in message news:bvmhun$4ed$1@terabinaries.xmission.com... > > http://www-306.ibm.com/software/success/cssdb.nsf/CS/TKNC-5Q5PWE?OpenDocument&Site=dmmain "Previously, SCU powered its PeopleSoft application with IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) running on IBM pSeries systems. After years of exceptional performance from its IDS and pSeries system, SCU felt confident in including IBM in its evaluation process for a new information management solution. For due diligence, SCU considered several vendors, eventually narrowing its options to Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server and IBM DB2 Universal Database." Er .... er .... let's recap here: they've had "years of exceptional performance" from IDS so when they decided to upgrade ... they didn't evaluate IDS!! Why would that be then?
<vze2qjg5@verizon.net> wrote in message news:<bvmhun$4ed$1@terabinaries.xmission.com>... > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. Yes, I noticed that it probably was. <snip> > SB3b25kZXIgd2hldGhlciBhbnkgb2YgdGhlIGFzc2VtYmxlZCBtYXNzZXMgY2FuIG5hbWUg > b25lIChhIHNpdGUNCnRoYXQncyBjb252ZXJ0ZWQZnJvbSBJRFMgdG8gREIyKS4gSSdkIGJl > IGdlbnVpbmVseSBpbnRlcmVzdGVkIHRvDQprbm93Lg0KDQpBbmR5DQoNCg0KIkhhbWlsdG9u > LCBKZXJyeSIgPGhhbWlsdG9qQGZsZWlzaG1hbi5jb20+IHdyb3RlIGluIG1lc3NhZ2UgbmV3 > czo8YnZkc2J2JGJnMiQxQHRlcmFiaW5hcmllcy54bWlzc2lvbi5jb20+Li4uDQo+IFplcm8N <snip> Aarrggghhhh!!
After years of exceptional performance from my ageing BMW 320, I felt confident in including Germany in my evaluation process for a means of transport and will now be going to work on a Bratwurst. "Neil Truby" <neil.truby@ardenta.com> wrote in message news:<bvmlk0$tttd7$1@ID-162943.news.uni-berlin.de>... > <vze2qjg5@verizon.net> wrote in message > news:bvmhun$4ed$1@terabinaries.xmission.com... > > > > > http://www-306.ibm.com/software/success/cssdb.nsf/CS/TKNC-5Q5PWE?OpenDocument&Site=dmmain > > "Previously, SCU powered its PeopleSoft application with IBM Informix > Dynamic Server (IDS) running on IBM pSeries systems. After years of > exceptional performance from its IDS and pSeries system, SCU felt confident > in including IBM in its evaluation process for a new information management > solution. > > For due diligence, SCU considered several vendors, eventually narrowing its > options to Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server and IBM DB2 Universal Database." > > Er .... er .... let's recap here: they've had "years of exceptional > performance" from IDS so when they decided to upgrade ... they didn't > evaluate IDS!! > Why would that be then?
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