Re: Informix and Lawson Software

If you have lots of 4GL code I think you have a problem going to another database... Chucho! Neil Truby wrote: > "Andrew Hamm" <ahamm@mail.com> wrote in message > news:bg4igj$krfib$1@ID-79573.news.uni-berlin.de... > >>Jay Aymond wrote: >> >>>Lawson Software has posted a "Letter to their customers" on their >>>support website indicating that Lawson will no longer support >>>Informix with the 8.1 release of the Lawson Environment. This is too >>>bad, as the main need for Informix at this site is due to the Lawson >>>Software ... more than likely, we will start looking at other options >>>to replace Informix. My guess is that it will not be DB2. >> >>Why not? Bitterness is no reason to make an expensive purchasing decision. >>That's probably worse than being sucked in my Marketing Drivel (TM). > > > Did he say anything about bitterness? > > There's a theory that goes that people using Informix made a decision to > choose it, rather than the market leader, because of its superior > technology, performance, ease-of-use or some other property. Those people > are now being shafted big time, without the benefit of vaseline. They are > going to be suspicious of making the same mistake twice, and choosing > another marginal player in the space - and make no mistake, DB2 UDB is a > marginal player in this space. > > Far safer to go for the market leader. > > I truly believe that this is the flaw in the great IBM plan. Why *should* > people move from IDS to DB2 just because IBM wishes it? The migration path > is no easier than for Oracle or SQL Server. It's not a market leader or > obviously technologically superior. Deals are avaiable from all the > competitors. > > Any company worth its salt will consider all the options when deciding which > database to choose. And I see no compelling reasons to choose DB2 .... > > > > -- Atte, Jes's Antonio Santos Giraldo jeansagi@myrealbox.com jeansagi@netscape.net sending to informix-list