Re: "The Problem with Informix" Article by Philip Howarth, Bloor Research

> > We supplied IDS to a new on-line gaming "Push the red button on your Sky > handset now" business which went live last month. But you are correct, such > successes are few and far between on IDS. Or they are never heard of Neil. Currently working in a Media/Financial company and they have had to install IDS due to a VAR application. The VAR uses it as a back end and has been using it to write trading applications for a number of years. Assuming the project goes to plan the application could be a big installation. Like yourself Neil the IDS installation was due to a Software house using IDS as a back end DB. I am sure there are a lot more of these out there. In my opinion there are a lot of small companies who would use IDS as a back-end database because of the ease of use, upgrade path and more importantly functionality/performance it gives not to mention the HA aspect which has been used in DB2. It generally works OK even when it is not configured to its true potential I guess like any other db but I am a bit biased and think Informix is better :-) But I guess time will tell what will happen. Traveller