Re: Informix and Lawson Software

Unless of course you use Hydra; http://www.querix.com/ On 30 Jul 2003 at 1:17, Jean Sagi wrote: > > If you have lots of 4GL code I think you have a problem going to another > database... > > > Chucho! > > Neil Truby wrote: > > "Andrew Hamm" <ahamm@mail.com> wrote in message > > news:bg4igj$krfib$1@ID-79573.news.uni-berlin.de... > > > >>Jay Aymond wrote: > >> > >>>Lawson Software has posted a "Letter to their customers" on their > >>>support website indicating that Lawson will no longer support > >>>Informix with the 8.1 release of the Lawson Environment. This is too > >>>bad, as the main need for Informix at this site is due to the Lawson > >>>Software ... more than likely, we will start looking at other options > >>>to replace Informix. My guess is that it will not be DB2. > >> > >>Why not? Bitterness is no reason to make an expensive purchasing decision. > >>That's probably worse than being sucked in my Marketing Drivel (TM). > > > > > > Did he say anything about bitterness? > > > > There's a theory that goes that people using Informix made a decision to > > choose it, rather than the market leader, because of its superior > > technology, performance, ease-of-use or some other property. Those people > > are now being shafted big time, without the benefit of vaseline. They are > > going to be suspicious of making the same mistake twice, and choosing > > another marginal player in the space - and make no mistake, DB2 UDB is a > > marginal player in this space. > > > > Far safer to go for the market leader. > > > > I truly believe that this is the flaw in the great IBM plan. Why *should* > > people move from IDS to DB2 just because IBM wishes it? The migration path > > is no easier than for Oracle or SQL Server. It's not a market leader or > > obviously technologically superior. Deals are avaiable from all the > > competitors. > > > > Any company worth its salt will consider all the options when deciding which > > database to choose. And I see no compelling reasons to choose DB2 .... > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Atte, > > > Jes's Antonio Santos Giraldo > jeansagi@myrealbox.com > jeansagi@netscape.net > > sending to informix-list > sending to informix-list