Re: Informix Software is Finished...

Neil Truby wrote: > This touches on the root of Informix's problems. They allowed their > marketing people to get away with promoting the "sexy", futuristic > aspects of the product set, rather than concentrating on the solid and > unspectacular merits of a reliable and "performant" (there, I've started > speaking American!) DBMS. Somewhat curious that the start of Informix's problems followed quite closely on the heels of the merger/acquisition of Illustra, no? It marked the change in "futures" focus from XPS to Universal Server (which was the "technology" acquired from Illustra), which turned out to be a less than stellar marketing ploy. I feel compelled to point out that, as someone who was there to see it happening, the marketing people were not the ones to blame for that one. -- Dave "That's just my opinion - I could be wrong." - Dennis Miller