RE: DB2 and Oracle -- where's Informix?
Incompetence? Naw... Do ya think! Say it aint so! These Band10+ execs surely don't have their own agenda and don't want to rock the boat, lest they get shipped off to Siberia or made redundant! There is no excuse but incompetence! Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:36:16 +0100 Subject: Re: DB2 and Oracle -- where's Informix? From: domusonline@gmail.com To: informix-list@iiug.org I believe the sentence "flagship database" is not in the IBM press release. It appears to be a sentence used by the press, not the press release. Assuming this is so, we can of course discuss why the press has this idea... Incompetence, IBM fault etc... Regards On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:12 AM, eherber <eric@herber-consulting.de> wrote: On 14 Okt., 09:30, eherber <e...@herber-consulting.de> wrote: > > .. "flagship DB2 database" .. No marketing of course. All databases > > are treated equally. Some are more equal than others. > > Funny. It think it was B. Spang (mentioned in the computer world > article) from IBM who > said in the past that it would be better not to call any data server > of IBM a > "flagship database". Now I understand what he was trying to say: > > - don't call IDS a "flagship database for embedded solutions" > - don't call IDS a "flagship database for OLTP" > - don't call IDS a "flagship database for the MAC" > - don't call IDS a "flagship database for SMB" > - don't call IDS a "flagship cluster database" > > BUT > > - it is always welcome to call DB2 a "flagship database" in every > imaginable area > > I personally would recommend a more critical standpoint against IBM > both to > the Informix customers as well as to the IIUG. It is obvious that IBM > tells a different > story of the truth to the faithful Informix community. To follow up on this, please vote here: http://www.informix-zone.com/node/865 _______________________________________________ Informix-list mailing list Informix-list@iiug.org http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list -- Fernando Nunes Portugal http://informix-technology.blogspot.com My email works... but I don't check it frequently... _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/171222984/direct/01/