Re: Informix + SAP history

<snip> > > "How can you tell when an American president is lying?" > <snip> .....his lips move...? malcolm weallans wrote: > I have worked with Informix products for many many years and can > honestly say that in all that time I never saw any evidence of there > being an Informix heritage in the SAP system. The database design shows > little evidence of Informix parentage, and from what I have seen of the > user interface I don't think they ever used Informix 4GL. > > AS to the source of the original comments - there is the old joke > > "How can you tell when an American president is lying?" > > Regards > > Malcolm > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org [mailto:owner-informix-list@iiug.org] > On Behalf Of Hamilton, Jerry > Sent: 11 May 2005 20:44 > To: Dave; informix-list@iiug.org > Subject: RE: Informix + SAP history > > > > Something tells me Dave that you have the answers to your own > questions... > > Maybe Mr. Litel, he is the President of the IIUG and should be addressed > properly, is using his article as a PR stunt to draw attention to the > *big* IDUNG, I mean IDUG, conference that's coming up at the end of the > month.... > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org [mailto:owner-informix-list@iiug.org] > On Behalf Of Dave > Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 9:33 AM > To: informix-list@iiug.org > Subject: Informix + SAP history > > > Yesterday, I received a copy of a magazine called DATABASE Trends and > Applications. My eye was caught by an article entitled "Informix > Deserves Support" written by Stuart Litel in which he decries SAP's > pulling of support for new versions of INFORMIX . Upon reading the > article, however, I was taken aback by some of the statements made that > don't seem to jibe with history as I recall it. Specifically, Litel > writes: > ...SAP, which was written many years ago using Informix 4GL, > and only ran with Informix in the first version, was abandoning > all > future Informix products. Until a few years ago, SAP had > Informix embedded inside as it was needed regardless of which > database the user employed. > > I worked for Informix from 88-97, and was involved in benchmarking SAP > when they > *first* decided to offer support for Informix in R3 after having only > supported Oracle as the database. So I am confused as to what Litel is > talking about in the article. Was SAP really originally written in > Informix-4GL? And was Informix ever "embedded inside" SAP, present even > when Oracle was the underlying database? Or by "Informix" is "C-ISAM" > what is really meant (a far cry from what most people would understand > as "Informix")? > > Regards, > Dave > > > > > sending to informix-list > > sending to informix-list