Re: Informix Directions

Alan Denney wrote in message ... >In article <34e34170.0@128.151.238.122>, >Tim Schaefer <tschaefe@mindspring.com> wrote: >>Yeah, um, but I heard that the SCO porting of Informix is over. There = >>will be no more SCO ports, and Informix is dumping the small end. > >And you heard this from... where? Voices in one's head don't count >as reliable sources... [-: > I really do wish you'd quit giving away all my secrets Alan! :-) ( But I did hear it from Informix, and cannot divulge my source. ) >>What does this do to the market, and in particular, my career path? It = >>goes in the dumper to stay with Informix. Apparently this is probably what >> they want, > >Indeed... I hear that all product line planning is done with the explicit >goal of damaging your career path... [-: > Yeah yeah yeah, I know, to you it's whining. But just for 30 seconds try to imagine what it's like to be a customer. I know it's difficult for many at Informix to do that, but try. And imagine for just 30 seconds that maybe, just maybe, Informix marketing sucks, and because of that a perfectly good company is doing poorly, which makes it quite a tragedy. And although I don't work for Informix like you do Alan, it's almost like I *do* work for them, and have to watch this great company go down the tubes. Tim Tim Schaefer tschaefe@mindspring.com http://www.inxutil.com ICQ:6358805 #include <informix_to_oracle.h> >-- >Alan Denney yosemite_at_netcom.com > >"Whining is just anger coming out of a very small hole." -- Stuart Smalley >