Re: Who is the competition?

Neil Truby said: > <mweallans@panacea.co.uk> wrote in message > news:1117209558.065406.202840@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... >> At a recent Infobahn in London there were numerous references to the >> main competition for IDS being Oracle. In fact so much attention was >> spent on this that I began thinking we were backed in the days of the >> billboard wars on 101. >> >> I would like to see a proper survey done of all of the current Informix >> user base as to who they consider to be the most likely database server >> they would move to. Maybe then we can get a good picture of the real >> situation. > > Each of the first two speakers, both of whom mentioned Oracle as "the > competition", were US-based. Perhaps Oracle is the main competition in > the > United States. Certainly the first guy in particular seemed surprised > when > we all told him that in our experience the users are haemorrhaging to SQL > Server, not Oracle ... Really? Things might work differently in the rest of the world than they do in the US? Can't see it myself. -- Bye now, Obnoxio "C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien ' dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule" - Coluche A smile is a gift that is free to the giver and precious to the recipient. But giving someone the finger is free too, and I find it more personal and sincere. sending to informix-list