Re: Are Informix deaf, dumb, and blind?

Agreed, very much so. But it's probably better for Informix, and for all of us, that they use maximum resources on this rather than putting new functionallity into the current engines. By now they may of course be big enough to do both - if that new release is stable, ported and supported :-) cdr@xteam.co.at (Chris Drauch) wrote: :Nils Myklebust wrote :> :>May be Informix don't do anything about this right now because it will :>be available in the Universal Server coming out soon. (Assuming :>Informix or someone else implement a datablade with this :>functionallity - but they better do that). :> [text about US goodies snipped] :> :>So the conclusion should be to tell Informix we *must* have a :>datablade with this kind of functions built in. :>And an upgrade to the Universal Server must be cheap and easy for all :>of us. : :Well, nice future - but still vaporware for me. Before I even think about :the new animal stamping the database culture, they ***must*** have a : :1) very stable Don't know about this. Hopefully we will here from betatesters soon. I assume Informix haven't had them sign non disclosure agreements. :2) ported to all (actual) Informix supported plattforms Sun, HP, IBM, NT, SCO? And then Digital, NCR and perhaps some others? :3) full support of all Informix tools (ESQL,4GL,...), 3rd party interest Of course. Anything else would be to big a blunder (including 4GL). :4) powerful as OL/DSA That's supposedly the aim. : :version. : :-- :Chris Drauch <cdr@xteam.co.at> ... just speaking for myself ... Nils.Myklebust@idg.no NM Data AS, P.O.Box 9090 Gronland, N-0133 Oslo, Norway My opinions are those of my company The Informix FAQ is at http://www.iiug.org