Re: Informix Directions
Has anyone out there been working with Informix since the late '80s? Remember how they simply dumped VMS support back then? Seth "Tim Schaefer" <tschaefe@mindspring.com> writes: >Yeah, um, but I heard that the SCO porting of Informix is over. There = >will be >no more SCO ports, and Informix is dumping the small end. >What does this do to the market, and in particular, my career path? It = >goes in >the dumper to stay with Informix. Apparently this is probably what they = >want, >to alienate the majority of customers using Informix products, and stick = >with a=20 >few esoteric dungeons that use Informix on the high-end side. If the = >plan is >to concentrate on data warehousing, I certainly don't need Informix to = >accomplish=20 >data warehousing. Or Oracle or Sybase for that matter. =20 >I could use the cheapest SQL "SE" type engine, on the right hardware, = >and the=20 >story is over. Guess where I'm going for *that*. And I can really get = >nasty=20 >on a competitive solution as far as that's concerned. After talking to = >Informix >folk who don't understand the market, this is going to get even easier = >to compete=20 >against Informix. Sorry, but a real competitor has to understand what = >they're=20 >up against. And for those that don't think UNIX, SQL-Server will be = >there >for those people. Clustered, and expensive, but no Informix in the = >picture. >DW technology is open, the concepts are open, and really with the latest = >advancements in small-system clustering, there's absolutely no real need = >for=20 >XPS. ( Or whatever it's called now ) A business can literally set up = >data=20 >warehousing for next to nothing if the homework is done on clustering. = >And >that means a rather bland and uninteresting data base product that costs >next to nothing can be a part of the architecture. It's going to get = >fun, >and too bad Informix decided to go the way they did. A majority of DW >implementations will be attracted to low cost more than anything as they >learn DW, and then maybe move into an XPS, but by then, they'll pick=20 >something else besides Informix because there's probably going to be >other vendors with more mindshare to choose from. =20 >Go for it Informix, I hope your people have been saving their paychecks. >I don't see how you call yourself a data base company and not include >the low end of computing, which is experiencing the most vital rebirth >in 10 years. >Tim >Tim Schaefer =20 >tschaefe@mindspring.com=20 >http://www.inxutil.com =20 >ICQ:6358805 =20 >#include <linux.h> >Marco Greco wrote in message <6bv8vq$b59$1@news.xmission.com>... >> >>David Williams wrote: >>>=20 >>> It's not out yet, SCO is one of the last platforms ported to. >>>=20 >>> Informix port to >200 platforms and SCO is so sh*t that it is >>> one of the last ones ported to. >>>=20 >>> PS I've heard a rumour that SCO UNIX will no longer exist soon, >>> can anyone confirm this? >> >>Quite far from the truth. SCO has bought UnixWare from Novell, so while >>OpenServer is going to disappear, SCO is definitely not. While they are >>marketing both OS's, currently, their near future offering is going to = >be a >>single product with both OS5 & UW2 backward compatibility. >>More than that, they're partnering with HP in a 64 bit Unix development = >for the >>Merced processor. >> >>Ciao, >>Marco >>________________________________________________________________________= >_______ >>Marco Greco, Catania, Italy = >marcog@linux.ctonline.it >>rem radioterapia +39 95 447828 = >fax 446558 >> >>Informix faq = >http://www.iiug.org/techinfo/faq/informix.htm >>4glworks = >http://www.ctonline.it/~marcog >>Informix on Linux = >http://www.ctonline.it/~marcog/ifmxlinux.htm -- -- Seth Grimes Alta Plana Internet & database design & development grimes@altaplana.com http://altaplana.com 301-891-2581 grimes@access.digex.net http://www.access.digex.net/~grimes