Re: Is IBM actually doing something with IDS?

Ian Michael Gumby wrote: > An RoR adaptor? :-P > > Seriously... > > Timmy the Tool and DA Maroon haven't a clue. > > The funny thing is that if you discount the swapping of customers. > (ie customer X defected from this product while customer Y defected to > *that* product....) > You'll find that both IBM and Oracle will increase their markets by a > large percentage of growth. > It would be interesting to see if either company didn't increase their > markets by 15-20%. > Meaning that the markets for databases continues to grow. If you ignore the fact that this is an Informix group you might be correct. But the subject of this thread is about what IBM is doing with IDS. And the only metric I'm seeing changing by 15-20% is a decrease in available jobs. Something I suspect is of concern to those who depend upon their Informix skills to pay the mortgage. -- Daniel A. Morgan University of Washington damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)