Re: Informix and Lawson Software
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). -- I have a simple philosophy that gets me through life: Never buy cheap toilet paper. Learn to know what is important, and what is not important. - Replies directly to this message will go to an account that may not be checked for a week or two. For more timely e-mail response, use (only in an emergency) ahamm sanderson net au with all the usual punctuation.
"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 ....
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 11:12:25 +1000, "Andrew Hamm" <ahamm@mail.com> wrote: >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). No,Mark, I don't think that it's bitterness. Consider the level at which these decisions are made. It's not at our level. Besides, if you already have Oracle in the house, then it may make sense to convert over to Oracle. Especially if Lawson is the only software running on Informix. In our case, we have a lot of 4GL as well that ties in to Lawson. Thankfully, the 8.0 Environment hasn't been decomissioned yet.