Re: Informix beats Oracle

"Data Cruncher" <dcruncher4@aim.com> wrote in message news:veCdnYyqBaBBVxrbnZ2dnUVZ_uSgnZ2d@comcast.com... > > "Mark Townsend" <markbtownsend@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message > news:4687C1C0.2070707@sbcglobal.net... >> Andrew Ford wrote: >>> comp.databases.oracle.server has experienced a similar decline of 50% >>> when comparing 2001 to 2007 YTD. >>> >> >> The math is actually 43%. And in the meantime the forums on OTN have >> quadrupled. asktom has also exploded. Are there similar IBM sponsored >> sites for Informix ? > > iiug membership has doubled since 2001. Yes, but .... The nature of any free-to-join organisation is that no-one ever bothers ever to rescind membership. There's any number of sites I've registered with down the years, and visited that one time to read an article in which I was interested or something. No doubt they would count me as a subscriber, but I'm not an active one. So I'd like to see the IIUG directorate stop trundling out this statistic, as it doesn't really tell us anything about the *active* membership, and for that reason is too easy to nullify.