Re: PRESS: Informix in the News
That's a scary thought - Microsoft going to the high end. Thank you - I get enough GPFs just reading my mail. Microsoft - The people who brought you edlin. cheers j. "Ing. Melvin Perez Cedano" <cam@codetel.net.do> on 03/04/98 01:37:49 PM Please respond to cam@codetel.net.do To: Christine Shannon <usergrp@informix.com> cc: informix-list@iiug.org (bcc: Jack Parker/Boston50/Epsilon) Subject: Re: PRESS: Informix in the News To the high-end to compete with more experienced companies (ORACLE, Sybase, IBM) with better financial positions and better marketing/sales strategies. Informix is leaving the low-end to Microsoft, but will stay Microsoft at low-end or will go to the high-end too? If Microsoft go there too, what you going to do Informix? You had left a lot of customers hanged-on with your tools (4GL, NewEra) and mid-size/workgroup databases (SE, Workgroup edition). Are you aware of this? Christine Shannon wrote: > List of Informix related articles. > > Format: > PUBLICATION > "Article Name" > Summary of Article > [Date, Location in Publication, Author] > > Informix in the News > --------------------------------- > (3/3/98) > > INFOWORLD ELECTRIC > "Informix Focusing on High-End Apps, Says CEO" > At a recent breakfast with the media, President and CEO of Informix Robert > Finocchio Jr. announced that Informix is conceding the low-end Windows NT > database market to Microsoft and instead plans to sell databases for > high-end applications in online transaction processing (OLTP) and data > warehousing as well as for database-driven Web sites. The low-end, > shrink-wrapped database marketplace is cornered by Microsoft, Finocchio said. > (Paul Krill, 2/24/98) > > Additional coverage: > YAHOO FINANCE > "Informix to Focus on High-End Database Niches?CEO" > (Kourosh Karimkhany, 2/24/98) > > COMPUTER RESELLER NEWS > "Informix CEO Lays Out Game Plan" > (Shawn Willet, 2/24/98) > > PCWEEK ONLINE > "Informix Chief Sees Light Ahead" > At a recent press breakfast, Informix President and CEO Robert Finocchio > Jr. was upbeat in discussing an encouraging fourth quarter in which > Informix posted a $17.8 million profit on revenues of $181.2 million. In > all of 1997, the Menlo Park, Calif. company lost $357.3 million. > (Mark Hammond, 2/24/98) > > DATABASED WEB ADVISOR > "Using Informix Datablades to Facilitate E-Commerce: Orchestrate all the > Capabilities an E-Commerce Site Requires into a Single, Coherent, > Manageable System" > Informix?s recently released Informix Dynamic Server with the Universal > Data Option opens up a wealth of possibilities for those looking to tie > together many systems to support electronic commerce. For many > organizations, the Informix solution provides the right amount of > performance, manageability, flexibility, and rapid Web application > development to support a commercial presence on the Net. Informix Dynamic > Server?s ability to pull any data and functionality into the database as a > first-class datatype gives it "integratability." > (Staff Writer, March 1998) begin: vcard fn: Melvin Perez n: Perez;Melvin org: CAM Informatica. S. A. email;internet: cam@codetel.net.do title: Technical Vicepresident tel;work: (809) 686-5574 tel;fax: (809) 686-5467 tel;home: (809) 227-2893 x-mozilla-cpt: ;-960 x-mozilla-html: FALSE version: 2.1 end: vcard