Re: Informix quits Windows end of market??

Michael Segel wrote: > > OK, > Here's Informix's sekret plan. > Don't tell Boris or Natasha! > > Informix wants to confuse their competition by saying one thing and doing > the exact opposite. (They saw it work in a Monty Python Sketch! ;-) > > For those not in Europe, 5/3/98 is 3/5/98 ! Ok I forgot about the rest of the world - easy mistake when you are sat in a shed in the middle of nowhere > > I think that there is some misconception with Informix. > Cutting 1,000 jobs means about 30% of their workforce. > I know that they lost 200 people due to attrition and some due to > beheadings, disembowelment, seppeku (?sp?), exposure to > biotoxins, etc ... (Informix, once your in, you can never get out alive! ;-) > > But they seem to want to be building a consulting/professional services > group. They are going to need a some more staff then. > So take what you read/hear with a grain of salt. Always > > -Mikey > (Tongue is always in cheek!) > > Paul Watson wrote: > > > Source Computer Weekly 5/3/98 > > > > "Database supplier Informix said it would move out of the low end of the > > market for systems running in Microsoft's Window NT, an concentrate on > > the higher end, which remains mainly Unix-based. Chief Executive Robert > > Finocchio said the bottom end of the market was becoming dominated by > > Microsoft's database products. Informix returned to profit inthe fourth > > quarter, after shedding about 1,000 staff and shutting some offices" > > > > I know there's been some recent chat about Informix loosing/keeping SCO > > support etc, but I haven't seen the loss of NT mentioned - maybe I > > missed it. -- Paul Watson # WF Software Ltd # It said run using Windows 95 Tel: +44 1436 674629 # or better in the manual Fax: +44 1436 678693 # so I used Unix www.wfsoftware.co.uk #