RE: IDS to DB2 conversion

> I am regularly looking at the employment situation. I see lots of jobs > for > Orrible, lots for Squeal, and even jobs for slybase, but very few for DB2 > or > Informix. That is why people aren't migrating from Informix to DB2. > We complain a lot in this newsgroup at the lack of publicity about > Informix, > but from what I can see they are publicising Informix as well as they > publicise DB2. OK if you go the web-site it is still easier to find DB2 > than Informix, but if you were a new or migrating customer you wouldn't be > looking at the IBM web-site anyway. People still perceive IBM as the > mainframe database company and DB2 as the mainframe database product. And > nothing IBM has done has convinced the existing Informix users that DB2 is > a > viable alternative. > > Only last week I was talking to some developers and asking them what they > would use as a server to develop against. They mentioned just two. > Guess? > Can you tell me who these companies are??? I'd like to work for them. In my experience the influence of the techies is minimal. The overall cost of the deal and services that are thrown in by the vendor to assist the conversion have the biggest impact. sending to informix-list