Re: Informix first on Linux, not Oracle

And... And did not Oracle "just" announce they would port it by mid-1999? Is any Oracle (or Sybase) product shipping on Linux now? Informix SE and Dynamic Server are available now! Steve -- Steven L Cooper Manager, Systems Engineering --------------------------------------- Please reply to NG only, so others may be enlightened... The views expressed here are mine and you can't have them...unless you agree! proteus <proteus@romus.com> wrote in article <dnf.software._____1._____1.AE8.36306BD2.6A59@messages.cnet.com>... > In the article http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,27836,00.html > about Informix launching Dynamic Server and Dynamic > 4GL for Linux I saw the next sentence: > > Informix joins Netscape Communications, Oracle, and Sybase in > porting products to Linux. > > The truth is that Informix launched their SE database server and > the E-SQL/C in july 1998, and so Oracle and Sybase are > those who "Joined the crowd". It's not the first time when the > agressive marketing of the Oracle camed before the higher > quality of the Informix products. > > I don't have many bad things too say about news.com (I get and > read their news reports daily) but sometimes they must be > more careful about things like this. When many people read that > Informix is following Oracle's lead, there is chance that they > will even start to believe it. And that would be a very big > mistake since Informix (my opinion) has far better products than > Oracle. > > Regards, > > Sebastian Paul Avarvarei > E-mail: proteus@romus.com > > > http://messages.cnet.com Your information exchange place. > http://messages.cnet.com/software/ Join Now! >