Re: Thinking Green.. yeah I know ... ironic... :-)

david@smooth1.co.uk wrote: > On 30 Oct, 20:38, Obnoxio The Clown <obno...@serendipita.com> wrote: >> da...@smooth1.co.uk wrote: >>> On 29 Oct, 15:58, Ian Michael Gumby <im_gu...@hotmail.com> wrote: >>>> On Oct 29, 10:07 am, InDeep <ind...@indeep.com> wrote:> Ian Michael Gumby wrote: >>>>>> The point is that with IDS, you can do more with less. Server >>>>>> consolidation is an example. Unlike its competitors IDS scales >>>>>> reasonably well. >>>>> Let's shift outside the IDS box for just .02 quantums if you can. >>>>> Indulge me. *<8o) >>>>> <Ahem> <Cough> >>>> [SNIP] >>>> To sum up ID's comment: IBM Informix marketing is spotting and not >>>> well tied together in to a package. There needs to be a cohesive and >>>> comprehensive push. >>>> Ok. I don't think anyone will disagree with that statement. Not even >>>> IBMers. :-) >>>> What we see at IOD is this new "encryption" solution which is marketed >>>> at both DB2 and IDS. In short. No product differential in latest >>>> announcements. >>>> Again, there's no shock there. >>> Right and where is thehttp://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/db2/9/editions_features_storage.html >>> (disk compression) for IDS then? >> Well, you may as well ask where all the IDS features in DB2 are. >> >> I'm sure if enough people asked for it, they'd put it in. Did you ask >> for it? No, neither did I. >> >> -- >> Cheers, >> Obnoxio The Clown >> >> http://obotheclown.blogspot.com- Hide quoted text - >> >> - Show quoted text - > > http://www.informix-zone.com/files/presentations/ids_roadmap_2008.pdf > > so DB2 with it now or IDS with it in 2010....hmmm wonder if that could > hurt sales of Informix then? > > Treating Informix as an equal to Db2 are we? > > And what happened to the idea of a reorg command in IDS, online reorg > appears to have dropped off the roadmap.... Please note the following: - It's a presentation with almost a year - It has "* Subject to change" - It has almost no technical details... Mainly marketing - Have you noticed that many of the newest fixpacks bring new stuff? Everybody wants the BIG features, but most of the times the real value is in the small features... -- Fernando Nunes Portugal http://informix-technology.blogspot.com My email works... but I don't check it frequently...