Re: Informix Software is Finished...

"Felix K. Mathews" wrote: > I don't think so, Informix is still in its late teens with bright technical > knowledge, living in a community where grumpy old men like Oracle takes every > chance to scare their own customers who intend to switch over to Informix > by saying that Informix is going to die tomorrow or day after, just to deviate > their customer's attention from their patched up old heart (RDBMS-Engine) > which infact may stop pumping any day now unless they go for a heart > transplantation (recoding of their RDBMS-engine). Don't forget about the 11 engineers who left Informix's Portland lab and moved over to Oracle. While not all, some of them were key players in the development of DSA. If Ellison is smart, he will have them immersed in the next generation of the Oracle kernel. > I don't think Microsoft want to announce in public, that another product of > theirs (SQL server) is some kind of trash and they like to switch over to > Informix's RDBMS, just like what they tried to do with Microsoft Money when > they tried to for Quicken. MS is certainly putting resources into improving SQLServer. In fact, I know of at least one former Informix engineer who is involved in doing just that (hi Jeff ;-)). But irrespective of that, they are selling plenty of SQLServer, so why throw more money at yet another database server? Just doesn't make good business sense. Dave "That's just my opinion - I could be wrong." - Dennis Miller