Re: Senior Oracle DBA now Learning Informix by Request of Company: I Thought Informix was Dead?

On 8 Dec 2006 20:57:35 -0800, elanleblanc@yahoo.com wrote: > >cfoughty@gmail.com wrote: I >> thought when IBM acquired Informix they would kill it and move >> everybody to UDB (DB2 for non-mainframe). > >That was Janet's grand plan. She apparently failed to consider that >DB2 did not have the feature set of of IDS, did not perform as well as >IDS in OLTP environments and was far more costly to administer. The >Informix customers and business partners gave her an education before >her retirement last year. >> >>So what is happenning to the future of Informix? > >While many IDS and DB2 customers share similar attributes and have >similar needs, IDS has a much more diverse customer base and fills >needs that DB2 (or Oracle) cannot. For that reason, IBM now has a >multi-data server strategy. While the two data servers will share >technology (and the engineering resources applicable) where it makes >sense, IDS and DB2 will focus new technology on different market >segments. IDS will target high performance OLTP and 'extreme' >environments such as the need for an very small footprint or zero >administration. DB2 will focus on XML and more general purpose >environments. > Even though IDS can handle "general purpose" environments pretty well . . . JWC