Re: IDS Next Version - features wanted - now widely off topic
Not a technical problem thread — it's a short discussion of IBM's marketing positioning for Informix. A poster reported that a slide at an IBM "Infobahn" session described IDS as both an embedded *and* an OLTP database, and wondered whether that meant IDS was now favoured over DB2 for transaction processing. Jonathan Leffler (IBM) was pleased someone noticed, Paul Watson noted IBM had been pushing the "IDS is for embedded" message for about a year, and Serge Rielau added a press-article link. No technical issue or resolution is recorded.
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The latest slide at the Thursday Infobahn had Informix as the embedded AND OLTP database You know....OLTP...transactions...bulk of your processing> So Informix is now preferred over DB/2 for transaction processing? Perhaps you guys (and gals) need to rethink...IBM has....
On 3 Jun 2005 15:43:39 -0700, david@smooth1.co.uk wrote: > >The latest slide at the Thursday Infobahn had Informix as the >embedded > >AND OLTP > >database > >You know....OLTP...transactions...bulk of your processing> > >So Informix is now preferred over DB/2 for transaction processing? > >Perhaps you guys (and gals) need to rethink...IBM has.... I hadn't heard that one . . . . wish I could have been there . . . . JWC
david@smooth1.co.uk wrote: > The latest slide at the Thursday Infobahn had Informix as the > embedded > > AND OLTP > > database > > You know....OLTP...transactions...bulk of your processing> > > So Informix is now preferred over DB/2 for transaction processing? > > Perhaps you guys (and gals) need to rethink...IBM has.... Thanks - someone *was* paying attention! -- Jonathan Leffler #include <disclaimer.h> Email: jleffler@earthlink.net, jleffler@us.ibm.com Guardian of DBD::Informix v2005.01 -- http://dbi.perl.org/
Jonathan Leffler wrote: > david@smooth1.co.uk wrote: > >> The latest slide at the Thursday Infobahn had Informix as the >> embedded >> >> AND OLTP >> >> database >> >> You know....OLTP...transactions...bulk of your processing> >> >> So Informix is now preferred over DB/2 for transaction processing? >> >> Perhaps you guys (and gals) need to rethink...IBM has.... > > > Thanks - someone *was* paying attention! > We always pay attention, just don't always believe :-) IBM have been hammering 'IDS is for embedded' for a year (?) now and people only just starting to hear it. -- Paul Watson # Oninit Ltd # Growing old is mandatory Tel: +44 1436 672201 # Growing up is optional Fax: +44 1436 678693 # Mob: +44 7818 003457 # www.oninit.com #
Paul Watson wrote: > Jonathan Leffler wrote: > >> david@smooth1.co.uk wrote: >> >>> The latest slide at the Thursday Infobahn had Informix as the >>> embedded >>> >>> AND OLTP >>> >>> database >>> >>> You know....OLTP...transactions...bulk of your processing> >>> >>> So Informix is now preferred over DB/2 for transaction processing? >>> >>> Perhaps you guys (and gals) need to rethink...IBM has.... >> >> >> >> Thanks - someone *was* paying attention! >> > > We always pay attention, just don't always believe :-) IBM have been > hammering 'IDS is for embedded' for a year (?) now and people only just > starting to hear it. > Well, that can be fixed: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,15492708%255E2703,00.html Cheers Serge -- Serge Rielau DB2 SQL Compiler Development IBM Toronto Lab
So that was what they were putting in the food at Denver :-) Serge Rielau wrote: > Paul Watson wrote: > >> Jonathan Leffler wrote: >> >>> david@smooth1.co.uk wrote: >>> >>>> The latest slide at the Thursday Infobahn had Informix as the >>>> embedded >>>> >>>> AND OLTP >>>> >>>> database >>>> >>>> You know....OLTP...transactions...bulk of your processing> >>>> >>>> So Informix is now preferred over DB/2 for transaction processing? >>>> >>>> Perhaps you guys (and gals) need to rethink...IBM has.... >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Thanks - someone *was* paying attention! >>> >> >> We always pay attention, just don't always believe :-) IBM have been >> hammering 'IDS is for embedded' for a year (?) now and people only >> just starting to hear it. >> > Well, that can be fixed: > http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,15492708%255E2703,00.html > > > Cheers > Serge -- Paul Watson # Oninit Ltd # Growing old is mandatory Tel: +44 1436 672201 # Growing up is optional Fax: +44 1436 678693 # Mob: +44 7818 003457 # www.oninit.com #