Re: No future for DB2
Part of the 'No future for DB2' debate. Noons claimed IBM bought Informix only to claim its user base and never planned to develop it. Mark A compared that to Oracle buying PeopleSoft. DA Morgan disagreed, expecting PeopleSoft designs to survive at Oracle and Informix to get little respect at IBM. Opinion exchange, no technical answer.
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Data Goob wrote: > flames. They opted to buy the racing team with their marketing budget, instead > of promoting any of their products. The racing team really helped get the Oh puh-leaze: the ONLY reason IBM bought Informix was that it was a cheap way of buying another 5 or so % points in the db size of user base race so they could claim to be ahead of Oracle! They NEVER had any plan to do anything else with Informix other than improperly claiming their share of the market as DB2's or IBm's. And that's a fact.
"Noons" <wizofoz2k@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message > > Oh puh-leaze: the ONLY reason IBM bought Informix > was that it was a cheap way of buying another 5 or so % > points in the db size of user base race so they could > claim to be ahead of Oracle! > > They NEVER had any plan to do anything else with Informix > other than improperly claiming their share of the market > as DB2's or IBm's. > > And that's a fact. > Kind of like Oracle buying Peoplesoft.
Mark A wrote: > "Noons" <wizofoz2k@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message > >>Oh puh-leaze: the ONLY reason IBM bought Informix >>was that it was a cheap way of buying another 5 or so % >>points in the db size of user base race so they could >>claim to be ahead of Oracle! >> >>They NEVER had any plan to do anything else with Informix >>other than improperly claiming their share of the market >>as DB2's or IBm's. >> >>And that's a fact. >> > > Kind of like Oracle buying Peoplesoft. Not the case at all. I'll bet hard dollars that when Oracle get done fusing Oracle Apps with PeopleSoft ... some of what will disappear is existing Oracle Apps replaced by superior PeopleSoft design. Informix will be lucky if it gets the respect Oracle has given to RDB. More likely it will be to IBM what Fox is to Microsoft. And that is a shame. -- Daniel A. Morgan http://www.psoug.org damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)
DA Morgan apparently said,on my timestamp of 28/07/2005 5:26 PM: > Not the case at all. I'll bet hard dollars that when Oracle > get done fusing Oracle Apps with PeopleSoft ... some of what > will disappear is existing Oracle Apps replaced by superior > PeopleSoft design. "fusing"? You know something you don't wanna tell us, Daniel? <g,d&r> > Informix will be lucky if it gets the respect Oracle has > given to RDB. More likely it will be to IBM what Fox is > to Microsoft. And that is a shame. Indeed. -- Cheers Nuno Souto in sunny Sydney, Australia wizofoz2k@yahoo.com.au.nospam