Re: NewEra to exploit Universal Server (fwd)

Corinne Gregory wrote: > > > But have you seen the June 1. issue of Computerworld? > > According to it NewEra 3.0 won't ship until December. December!?? > > And the reason? According to Computerworld it's beeing reworked to run > > under Windows 3.1 - el stupido gigante. > > > > Informix has apperantly listend to those who say they can't upgrade to > > Windows 95/NT - and is delaying the whole thing. > > What kind of an argument is that? If this is true it may be the final > > straw that broke NewEra for us. We will look much more seriously at > > the other alternatives now. > > Well, quite frankly, there are LOTS of folks who will not make an > immediate jump to 32-bit platforms. Informix is making a sound business > decision to support a customer base that will remain on 16-bit platforms > for deployment. They are responding to the market -- and the market > bears out that Win95 has not gone ballistic as Microsoft would have us > believe. I'm getting fed up with application vendors trying to push us into upgrading by only releasing 32-bit versions. Good for Informix Ian Goddard