Re: informix market share

"rkusenet" <rkusenet@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:90tif.1379$wf2.116717@news20.bellglobal.com... > Well for other vendors it will be a loss to get informix customer for > a bargain price. For IBM this question is moot. So IBM is in a > better position to sustain that process. > For e.g. there is a Gold Bundle schema of licensing. Basically > it means that any existing customer can buy Informix license > with an assurance that it can be switched to DB2 at any time > without paying anything at the time of switch. Not only that, > the customer can run both for a limited period during the > transition. I doubt whether other vendors can match that. Actually the Gold Bundle programme has been all-but-discontinued, as it was being used by sales teams as a vehicle for dressing up Informix maintenance renewals as Gold Bundle licence sales (sales teams get remunerated on new licence sales but not maintenance renewals). Here in Blighty I have never heard of an IDS customer moving to DB2. There are plenty of Informix users on Gold Bundles though!

I used Informix for a number of years (healthcare). When Informix was sold, it made strategic sense for us to migrate. We moved to Oracle about a year later. And, yes, the Informix skills will begin to fade.