Re: PRESS: Informix in the News -- 11/25/96

nnob@loc.gov (Nick Nobbe) writes: > 3. the big player syndrome. All the value added features are especially > attractive to the major corporations. It's not penny ante any more. > Why else were the first releases directed to the Sun and HP platforms If you're talking about Informix Universal Server, the first release is Sun and SGI. I think the reason is that these are the two major Unix players for Internet systems and Web applications will be the immediate big sellers for IUS. (My guess is that Illustra sold best for Web and time-series applications, followed by 2D spatial.) > 4. no true substitutes on the market yet. The other players have been > caught by the latest Informix ambush. Some have just begun to think > about it; others have thought about it, but can't offer a competitive > substitute. At this point, it looks like Informix has taken the lead > in innovation. Will they win the ambush, and lose the war? Time will > tell. It wasn't an ambush because it's been coming for a year now. Informix bought the technology, which I suppose could be called innovating, and they also lucked out in that Michael Stonebraker's figurative progeny created Informix with a compatible architecture to what Stonebrakers went on to use for Illustra. They also lucked out that Ingres was so poorly marketed and managed over the years and that OODBMSes never caught on. Seth -- Seth Grimes -- grimes@access.digex.net -- http://www.access.digex.net/~grimes grimes@magnet.com -- http://www.magnet.com