Re: Informix: Please buy Borland

Posted in 1997

Bret Lowry — Thu, 13 Mar 1997 20:56:57 -0500 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Tim Schaefer wrote: > > Kerry Sainsbury wrote: > > David W Chan (david@go5.com) wrote: > > : Informix today announced that they have bought CenterView who > : provide Visual Basic tools. > > The End Is Nigh. > > I'll have to go read the press release (where is it Christine?). > > Cheers, > Kerry "anything but VB" S > > Hey maybe they're trying to get into a childrens' or kids' market, > knowing that visual basic and access are toys... > > :-) > > Tim Tim, Obviously you haven't seen Newera 3.0, they're already in the kid's market! It is so flakey, we had to remove it and go back to 2.2. It's about time Informix buys a tools company and stops trying to do it all themselves, they obviously don't understands Windows programming! As far as Access goes, it runs circles around Newera. Bret.