Re: flagship sunk

Will Wheel wrote: > J'rgen Buck wrote: > >> Our brand new flagship sunk after a short, but heavy battle with it's >> stepbrother. >> The label "flagship for pure oltp" is gone on the IBM website: >> http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/informix/ids10/ >> >> Seems to me the IDS ship came into the reach of the DB2 guns. >> > > I don't see 'pure oltp' just embedded. > > "Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) is IBM's flagship database for > industrial-strength, embedded computing. " > > What were they thinking? > > -WW- Interestingly close to the language Oracle users for their XE (free) edition of the Oracle database: And I quote: "a small-footprint database to embed or distribute for free with their software or product." -- Daniel A. Morgan http://www.psoug.org damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)