Re: Company thought DB2 will be better than Oracle.

Posted in 2003

Blair Adamache — Wed, 17 Sep 2003 11:03:13 -0400 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

It might be helpful to have Informix developers who worked on XPS and IDS working on DB2. For that matter, purchasing the Informix databases assets includes patents adn source code - these could be more valuable than reading a manual. Neil Truby wrote: > "Daniel Morgan" <damorgan@x.washington.edu> wrote in message > news:1063632356.105378@yasure... > >>Neil Truby wrote: >> >> >>>Sorry to go on about this, and I sense we're discussing theis point in >>>circles, but there's no benefit to be accrued simply by acquiring the > > good > >>>people and technology and then doing nothing with it ..... >>> >>> >> >>They are doing something with what the acquired. It just may not be what >>Informix developers and DBAs want: Time will tell. > > > Killing it? > > Actually, I guess you mean "incorporating its functionality into that of DB2 > UDB". > But they're no longer talking about code merge. > So they didn't have to buy the company to do this. > Just a manual ... > >

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Obnoxio The Clown — Fri, 19 Sep 2003 23:35:27 +0100 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Blair Adamache wrote: > It might be helpful to have Informix developers who worked on XPS and > IDS working on DB2. For that matter, purchasing the Informix databases And Redbrick. Cubeviews, anyone? > assets includes patents adn source code - these could be more valuable > than reading a manual. I'll try and refrain from getting personal here. -- "C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien ' dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule" - Coluche