Re: IDS Next Version - features wanted - now widely off topic

<mail@markscranton.com> wrote in message news:1118678985.402360.222160@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... > In response to my respected friend, Mr. Mosser, we are starting to > visit clients that request an Informix presence at the management level > to help "fight the good fight." This includes both responding to the > competition, as well as helping with clarity of any "lingering > confusion" (or even, I hate to say it, new confusion on) the message > from IBM regarding Informix. We would have started these types of > visits sooner, but most of the Informix team has been traveling > non-stop worldwide holding events for the IDS 10.0 product launch. This > is a great sign though - as we've been so busy delivering the message > that we are having to utlitize more resources than just the core team > to cover the globe. I'd agree with that wholeheartedly, Mark. As I've written privately and in more detail to you, we in the UK have an urgent need of substantial resources to try to deal with the defections. As for "responding to the competition": as per previous posts, from where I sit that competiton is SQL Server and not, as the recent US-based speakers here perceive, Oracle.