Re: Why Informix is Best
On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 22:21:31 +0100, "Captain Pedantic" <theharlequin36@hotmail.com> wrote: ><david@smooth1.co.uk> wrote in message >news:1126638699.401097.52260@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com... >> > >> Informix is supported by IBM who are not going away in fact it is the >> IBM OLTP database of choice." > >>> Oh God, it was all going so well until you trotted out this horseshit. > >>> Not horseshit it was on the Slides at the may IBM Infobahn at Bedfont >>> Lakes in the UK. I was at the front where even I could read it... > >Use your critical faculties, man! > >It may have said it on a slide but do just accept everything you read >without question? What if another slide had said the moon was made of green >cheese ...? > >This "embedded database of choice"stuff is just a sop to Informix. A pat >on the head, a "There, there, we're not going to promote you but - tell you >what - we'll stick this label on your chest". It's yet another excuse not >to market Informix properly less DB2 is adversely affected. > Of course the DB2 guys might wonder what we're complaining about . . . DB2 doesn't get much press, either. JWC
"John Carlson" <jwcarlson1@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote in message news:i3aki11gbg51l4jjr5ejv0aun6nuulu4hl@4ax.com... > On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 22:21:31 +0100, "Captain Pedantic" > <theharlequin36@hotmail.com> wrote: > >><david@smooth1.co.uk> wrote in message >>news:1126638699.401097.52260@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com... >>> >> >>> Informix is supported by IBM who are not going away in fact it is the >>> IBM OLTP database of choice." >> >>>> Oh God, it was all going so well until you trotted out this horseshit. >> >>>> Not horseshit it was on the Slides at the may IBM Infobahn at Bedfont >>>> Lakes in the UK. I was at the front where even I could read it... >> >>Use your critical faculties, man! >> >>It may have said it on a slide but do just accept everything you read >>without question? What if another slide had said the moon was made of >>green >>cheese ...? >> >>This "embedded database of choice"stuff is just a sop to Informix. A pat >>on the head, a "There, there, we're not going to promote you but - tell >>you >>what - we'll stick this label on your chest". It's yet another excuse not >>to market Informix properly less DB2 is adversely affected. Here in England throughout the summer IBM took out a full-page advert for DB2 UDB v8 in all of the top-selling IT weeklies. These have been replaced recently by a series of very puzzling, brand-based ads in which supposedly ordinary (but actually all very beautiful, and scrupulously ethnically diverse) people in ordinary work situations are pictured wearing boxing gloves. Somebody in "creative" has over-done it on the charlie I think ...!
Captain Pedantic wrote: > Here in England throughout the summer IBM took out a full-page advert for > DB2 UDB v8 in all of the top-selling IT weeklies. These have been replaced > recently by a series of very puzzling, brand-based ads in which supposedly > ordinary (but actually all very beautiful, and scrupulously ethnically > diverse) people in ordinary work situations are pictured wearing boxing > gloves. Somebody in "creative" has over-done it on the charlie I think ...! > > What you see is a software group wide campaign with roll-outs on SOA (software oriented architecture) www.ibm.com/soa Cheers Serge -- Serge Rielau DB2 SQL Compiler Development IBM Toronto Lab
John Carlson wrote: > Of course the DB2 guys might wonder what we're complaining about . . . > DB2 doesn't get much press, either. Quite right. I think the first campaign I remember that ever mentioned DB2 must have been the "Codernauts". IMHO IBM sees RDBMS like batteries in a car. You need them, you want a good one, but they don't belong into the ad for the car. Hmm... I wonder what VW would say if Bosch asked or a "Bosch inside" sticker (and a catchy jingle).... Cheers Serge -- Serge Rielau DB2 SQL Compiler Development IBM Toronto Lab
"Serge Rielau" <srielau@ca.ibm.com> wrote in message news:3ovt62F80sfbU1@individual.net... > Captain Pedantic wrote: >> Here in England throughout the summer IBM took out a full-page advert for >> DB2 UDB v8 in all of the top-selling IT weeklies. These have been >> replaced recently by a series of very puzzling, brand-based ads in which >> supposedly ordinary (but actually all very beautiful, and scrupulously >> ethnically diverse) people in ordinary work situations are pictured >> wearing boxing gloves. Somebody in "creative" has over-done it on the >> charlie I think ...! > What you see is a software group wide campaign with roll-outs on SOA > (software oriented architecture) > www.ibm.com/soa Oh, thanks. It's still pretentious bollocks though ...