Re: Oracle is KILLING INFORMIX...

Mike: I don't know where you reside, but if you are on the West Coast, you are seeing what happens with years of questionable marketing and sales. Oracle takes more responsibility in the sales process and places significant importance on the major companies. Informix relies to much on the "channel" and loses contact with the big guys. Informix may have had a superior product, but Oracle has effectively gotten the big companies to believe that their product is superior. They have gotten the big companies to buy and the big companies are succeeding with their applications. Once they are hooked with Oracle, it is difficult for Informix to come in and boot them out. But the opposite seems to be occuring with Informix. Rick Creson mikespeed1@aol.com (MikeSpeed1) wrote: >Oracle is Killing INFORMIX... >Is it my imagination, or is Oracle winning the >marketing campaign against INFORMIX? >I see this happening in magazines. And now, >the latest NASDAQ TV commercial featuring >Oracle! I'm an INFORMIX-Online user here >in Chicago, and this really bugs me. I'm >anxious to know what other INFORMIX users >think. Also, which one (Oracle or INFORMIX) is >more popular in your city/state/region? >Please e-mail your responses to me...mikespeed1@aol.com >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Meridian Technology Group, Inc. (Technical and Business Consultants) 7165 S.W. Fir Loop, Suite #105 Portland, OR 97223-8055 Phone: (800) 755-1038 Local: (503) 639-0816 FAX: (503) 639-6836 EMail: Rick@MeridianGroup.com >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>