Re: Let me be the first

Double Echo wrote: > You missed my point. > > This is apparently one of the first articles ( in years btw ) to even > talk about Informix and new technology. It was poorly written, and > so far a casual sweep to other news sites turns up nothing. If an > article has come out on CRN, where else will we expect to see more > news? These kinds of articles are important, they get saved, printed, > and referenced to, in building street credibility about the product. > > And, as usual, a lot of people will not be in Anaheim, especially new > customers outside the 20,000 customers mentioned in the article and the > folks from Walmart who have apparently been responsible for keeping > the product alive. So any articles that are written are incredibly > important in their scope and content. And I would expect more to come out over the next few weeks, especially after the conference. M.P. > > Madison Pruet wrote: >> Double Echo wrote: >>> >>> Curious that this poorly written article provides an "announcement", >>> so where is >>> the IBM presence for this on the IBM website or other trade rags? >> >> What Arvind discussed was a prelude to the IOD conference in Aniheim >> coming up in a few weeks. Other things will be described in the >> conference, and in several of the regional IIUG mini-conferences >> coming up. I wouldn't expect to see a whole lot of mention about the >> other new functionality until after then. >> >> M.P. >> >>> >>> >>> Madison Pruet wrote: >>>> Obnoxio The Clown wrote: >>>>> Mark Townsend said: >>>>>> http://www.crn.com/sections/software/software.jhtml?articleId=193004835 >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> "The next release, code-named Cheetah, is due to beta this spring >>>>> and will >>>>> feature *record-level locking*, technology carried over from the >>>>> latest >>>>> release of IBM DB2, said Arvind Krishna, vice president of database >>>>> servers for IBM Software's Information Management Group, Somers, N.Y." >>>> >>>> There is a bit of mis-communication with this. What we are doing is >>>> implementing a form of row versioning which will enable a select to >>>> view the currently committed row rather than blocking on the row >>>> when it is in the process of being updated and is locked. >>>> >>>> There's quite a few other really cool things that are being put into >>>> Cheetah. Can't talk about them just yet, but will be doing so at >>>> the conference in Aniheim. >>>> >

OK, so why was CRN chosen as the mystical, magical trade rag to post this to? As if they really get any attention beyond VARs reading them, if at all. There needs to be a major magazine, preferably one like eWeek, or ComputerWorld that this appears in. I'm hoping against hope that if it indeed does show up in one of these that the writing will be better, and the new features more clearly articulated, because CRN gives anyone the idea that Informix just now got row-level locking. In most circles record-level and row-level are used interchangeably. Even Sybase gets more news these days. Head over to ComputerWorld or eWeek and you'll see. And Sybase was the one that didn't have row-level locking until around 2000 or so. Now Informix has to fight yet another feature perception that wasn't there! Madison Pruet wrote: > Double Echo wrote: >> You missed my point. >> >> This is apparently one of the first articles ( in years btw ) to even >> talk about Informix and new technology. It was poorly written, and >> so far a casual sweep to other news sites turns up nothing. If an >> article has come out on CRN, where else will we expect to see more >> news? These kinds of articles are important, they get saved, printed, >> and referenced to, in building street credibility about the product. >> >> And, as usual, a lot of people will not be in Anaheim, especially new >> customers outside the 20,000 customers mentioned in the article and >> the folks from Walmart who have apparently been responsible for keeping >> the product alive. So any articles that are written are incredibly >> important in their scope and content. > > And I would expect more to come out over the next few weeks, especially > after the conference. > > M.P. > >> >> Madison Pruet wrote: >>> Double Echo wrote: >>>> >>>> Curious that this poorly written article provides an "announcement", >>>> so where is >>>> the IBM presence for this on the IBM website or other trade rags? >>> >>> What Arvind discussed was a prelude to the IOD conference in Aniheim >>> coming up in a few weeks. Other things will be described in the >>> conference, and in several of the regional IIUG mini-conferences >>> coming up. I wouldn't expect to see a whole lot of mention about the >>> other new functionality until after then. >>> >>> M.P. >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Madison Pruet wrote: >>>>> Obnoxio The Clown wrote: >>>>>> Mark Townsend said: >>>>>>> http://www.crn.com/sections/software/software.jhtml?articleId=193004835 >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> "The next release, code-named Cheetah, is due to beta this spring >>>>>> and will >>>>>> feature *record-level locking*, technology carried over from the >>>>>> latest >>>>>> release of IBM DB2, said Arvind Krishna, vice president of database >>>>>> servers for IBM Software's Information Management Group, Somers, >>>>>> N.Y." >>>>> >>>>> There is a bit of mis-communication with this. What we are doing >>>>> is implementing a form of row versioning which will enable a select >>>>> to view the currently committed row rather than blocking on the >>>>> row when it is in the process of being updated and is locked. >>>>> >>>>> There's quite a few other really cool things that are being put >>>>> into Cheetah. Can't talk about them just yet, but will be doing so >>>>> at the conference in Aniheim. >>>>> >>

Turn the first page of InformationWeek and you see a 2 page add for Sybase. Double Echo <doubleecho@your. com> To Sent by: informix-list@iiug.org informix-list-bou cc nces@iiug.org Subject Re: Let me be the first 09/25/2006 11:23 AM Please respond to doubleecho@your.c om OK, so why was CRN chosen as the mystical, magical trade rag to post this to? As if they really get any attention beyond VARs reading them, if at all. There needs to be a major magazine, preferably one like eWeek, or ComputerWorld that this appears in. I'm hoping against hope that if it indeed does show up in one of these that the writing will be better, and the new features more clearly articulated, because CRN gives anyone the idea that Informix just now got row-level locking. In most circles record-level and row-level are used interchangeably. Even Sybase gets more news these days. Head over to ComputerWorld or eWeek and you'll see. And Sybase was the one that didn't have row-level locking until around 2000 or so. Now Informix has to fight yet another feature perception that wasn't there! Madison Pruet wrote: > Double Echo wrote: >> You missed my point. >> >> This is apparently one of the first articles ( in years btw ) to even >> talk about Informix and new technology. It was poorly written, and >> so far a casual sweep to other news sites turns up nothing. If an >> article has come out on CRN, where else will we expect to see more >> news? These kinds of articles are important, they get saved, printed, >> and referenced to, in building street credibility about the product. >> >> And, as usual, a lot of people will not be in Anaheim, especially new >> customers outside the 20,000 customers mentioned in the article and >> the folks from Walmart who have apparently been responsible for keeping >> the product alive. So any articles that are written are incredibly >> important in their scope and content. > > And I would expect more to come out over the next few weeks, especially > after the conference. > > M.P. > >> >> Madison Pruet wrote: >>> Double Echo wrote: >>>> >>>> Curious that this poorly written article provides an "announcement", >>>> so where is >>>> the IBM presence for this on the IBM website or other trade rags? >>> >>> What Arvind discussed was a prelude to the IOD conference in Aniheim >>> coming up in a few weeks. Other things will be described in the >>> conference, and in several of the regional IIUG mini-conferences >>> coming up. I wouldn't expect to see a whole lot of mention about the >>> other new functionality until after then. >>> >>> M.P. >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Madison Pruet wrote: >>>>> Obnoxio The Clown wrote: >>>>>> Mark Townsend said: >>>>>>> http://www.crn.com/sections/software/software.jhtml?articleId=193004835 >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> "The next release, code-named Cheetah, is due to beta this spring >>>>>> and will >>>>>> feature *record-level locking*, technology carried over from the >>>>>> latest >>>>>> release of IBM DB2, said Arvind Krishna, vice president of database >>>>>> servers for IBM Software's Information Management Group, Somers, >>>>>> N.Y." >>>>> >>>>> There is a bit of mis-communication with this. What we are doing >>>>> is implementing a form of row versioning which will enable a select >>>>> to view the currently committed row rather than blocking on the >>>>> row when it is in the process of being updated and is locked. >>>>> >>>>> There's quite a few other really cool things that are being put >>>>> into Cheetah. Can't talk about them just yet, but will be doing so >>>>> at the conference in Aniheim. >>>>> >> _______________________________________________ Informix-list mailing list Informix-list@iiug.org http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list