RE: The irony of IBM's Lack of Information Management Marketing...

Wow... Is there a user group in China too? -----Original Message----- From: informix-list-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:informix-list-bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of Serge Rielau Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 4:04 AM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Re: The irony of IBM's Lack of Information Management Marketing... mark.scranton@gmail.com wrote: > If China was completely void of any Informix, why would she go there? > I am hoping that if our team sees this and they did in fact cover > China or India they will jump in. I'm not on Marks team, but I am in China... Both major ISVs (one in Beijing, one in Shenzhen) where I have spent time have IDS in house along with DB2 and .... I have encountered new hires straight from school at IBM China as well as those ISVs who cited Informix experience when I surveyed DBMS backgrounds. To be frank, one of these ISVs, I'm told, hires 1000 employees/month and for the majority the IT folks here are a blank slate. They start of at the same spot to learn any DBMS. Leads to interesting conclusions about which complexity software they can digest, btw.... The DBA/App developer with 5 years experience in <place product here> statistically doesn't exist in China. Cheers Serge -- Serge Rielau DB2 Solutions Development DB2 UDB for Linux, Unix, Windows IBM Toronto Lab _______________________________________________ Informix-list mailing list Informix-list@iiug.org http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list