Re: Why Informix is Best
John Carlson remarked that DB2 gets little press either. Captain Pedantic described puzzling IBM boxing-glove adverts in the UK. Serge Rielau said they were part of an IBM software group SOA campaign and compared databases to car batteries, needed but not advertised. Captain Pedantic called it pretentious. Off-topic banter; no technical content.
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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 ...