Re: Re: OT:Is IBM going to be marketing Informix

I wonder if one can apply to a DB2-knowlegge work by saying: I don't know DB2 but I know Informix well... ;) Chucho! -----Original Message----- From: "Andrew Hamm" <ahamm@mail.com> To: informix-list@iiug.org Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 13:30:11 +1000 Subject: Re: OT:Is IBM going to be marketing Informix Jean Sagi wrote: > (This isn't rant too) > > Try DB2... for what I see in the long term (2010+) Db2 and Informix > will be the same, so some studyng of DB2 won't hurt. although the downside to studying DB2 now if you don't need to, may be obsolete in the future if they fullfill a lot of the promise: to "add Informix simplicity" to DB2. They acknowledge that IDS is very easy to manage and have promised to make DB2 approach that simplicity. So who knows how much arcane DB2 knowledge will become obsolete in the next few years. Jean Sagi jeansagi@myrealbox.com jeansagi@yahoo.com sending to informix-list