Re: Company thought DB2 will be better than Oracle.

Posted in 2003

Neil Truby — Wed, 17 Sep 2003 15:55:07 +0100 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

<John_Thomas@ao.uscourts.gov> wrote in message news:bk513m$sh5$1@terabinaries.xmission.com... > > Hi anyone who's interested in my two bytes, > > I am no happier about IBM buying out Informix than anyone else is, but the > possibility of takeovers (friendly or otherwise) > by larger, deeper-pocketed companies is -- like it or not -- a part of > our "free market" economy. > > If IBM's eventual purpose is to use Informix as a corral in which to herd > up new DB2 customers, there's not a lot any of us > can do, unfortunately. No, we techies can't. But customers can resist. And in my observation, they are.