Re: Saying yes to a no-charge IDS!

On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 08:54:01 +0100, Eric Herber <eric@I-hate-spam.org> wrote: >Roy Mercer wrote: > >> The article from the DB2 Magazine Q1, 2006, Vol 11, Number 1, Page 38. >> "Saying yes to a no-charge DB2" >> >> Nice article, for DB2! >> >> According to Christine, IBM is focusing on Informix marketing. >> >> So where is the no charge version of Informix, IDS express-C? >> What is IBM waiting on? Why not have a no-charge version of IDS? >> Why is it still called DB2 Magazine? >> Where is the Informix Magazine? >> >> FYI > >Roy, >' >I think that your complaints are legitimate and it is important >that you articulate the weak points regarding Informix@IBM. >A free IDS community version like the DB2 offer is only one >of point on a long list of drawbacks. There are quite a few more >as already mentioned in the Informix marketing request list: > >http://www.herber-consulting.de/cgi-bin/IfxMarkReq.pl >' >It is obviously that Informix is not seen as an emancipated >databaseserver product at IBM. Every single week full of >new messages about the upcoming DB2 'Viper' release confirms this. >As I already wrote before, open news.google.com and search >for 'informix' and compare those results with 'oracle', 'db2' or >'sql-server'. It is more than deflating. >' >Even Ingres has now a lot more publicity than Informix. They ' >hired the right people whichs seem to understand the art of product ' >marketing. I'm confident that this company will harvest the fruits >of their professional marketing work in the next months. >' >Unfortunately I could not say the same about Informix@IBM. >They fixed some twice-overdued things like removing the DB2 graphic >from the Informix webpages, but the major steps are still missing. >Even those twice-overdued things have not been fixed thoroughly as >you can see here: >' >IDS support page: >----------------- >http://www.ibm.com/software/data/informix/ids/support/ >' >Informix developer zone: >------------------------ >http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/db2/zones/informix/ >' >The DB2 graphic is still there, frustrating (-: >' And the new TPC-C benchmarks for UDB??? http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_perf_results.asp?resulttype=all http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_perf_results.asp?resulttype=noncluster JWC