RE: Looks Like The Party Is Over In Menlo (2nd try)

--- Watson Paul <Paul.Watson@fefc.ac.uk> > wrote: >> > SE is out of data in terms of data integrity and should be dropped >> > in favour of IDS Workgroup Edition. > >What about the people that use SE and find it reliable, straightforward >to use and don't want the learning curve or expense of IDS? What about >the people that bundled SE as part of product? > >Do they all just move to access or something > Mayhap I just missed it, but I come back after a relaxing weekend to this subject line which includes four subplots I'm trying to unravel. 1. The rent at Menlo is too high? 2. The new guy is revamping Informix to fit what he's most familiar with and the Informix product line will never be the same? 3. Informix on Linux is dead? 4. SE is going away? OK, five subplots if you count Informix is dead. Oh, and I forgot the IIUG is run by the three stooges subplot. What's the reality here? This is why I don't watch soap operas. == Maintainer of the procrastinator's FAQ. Well, maybe tomorrow I will be. _____________________________________________________________ Want a new web-based email account ? ---> http://www.firstlinux.net

Carlos Benjamin wrote: > Watson Paul <Paul.Watson@fefc.ac.uk> wrote: > >> >SE is out of data in terms of data integrity and should be dropped > >> >in favour of IDS Workgroup Edition. > > > >What about the people that use SE and find it reliable, straightforward > >to use and don't want the learning curve or expense of IDS? What about > >the people that bundled SE as part of product? > > > >Do they all just move to access or something > > Mayhap I just missed it, but I come back after a relaxing weekend to this > subject line which includes four subplots I'm trying to unravel. > > 1. The rent at Menlo is too high? True - apparently. And not implausible, either. Real estate prices around Menlo Park are insane, in general. And escalation clauses in leases can be a real bitch. > 2. The new guy is revamping Informix to fit what he's most familiar with > and the Informix product line will never be the same? That seems to be two sub-plots. There's some truth in the revamping part. There's probably some benefit to some parts of the Nevermore part -- I mean, the product line part. That is not to say that the whole product line will vanish in a puff of smoke. It won't. But some of the less lucrative parts (that are not deemed strategic) are likely to be severely curtailed. Anybody with an ounce of common sense could guess at all of that. > 3. Informix on Linux is dead? Better not be. False...I think. Maybe that's "hope". But since I work in Menlo, I've been on hallucinogens for the last umpteen years and can't be trusted to have any vision corresponding to any portion of anyone else's reality, now can I? > 4. SE is going away? Probably not. As of today, it is not. That could change next week, but probably won't. > OK, five subplots if you count Informix is dead. Informix is not (yet) dead. I hope it isn't on its last feet either. It should not be, but I'm not qualified to judge (see discussion above about Menlo and hallucinogens). > Oh, and I forgot the IIUG is run by the three stooges subplot. Pass. > What's the reality here? This is why I don't watch soap operas. Reality is a figment of your imagination, caused by a lack of your favourite hallucinogen in your preferred stimulatory beverage. :-) -- Yours, Jonathan Leffler (Jonathan.Leffler@Informix.com) #include <disclaimer.h> Guardian of DBD::Informix v1.00.PC1 -- http://www.perl.com/CPAN "I don't suffer from insanity; I enjoy every minute of it!" --- It does mention "database" below --- --- The original Nevermore - http://members.aol.com/s6sj7gt/poeraven.htm --- From: PRATHER_SAMUEL/HP1900_01@opnmail2.corp.hp.com Date: Tue, 7 Dec 93 19:20:00 +0000 NEVERMORE Once upon a midnight dreary, fingers cramped and vision bleary, System manuals piled high and wasted paper on the floor, Longing for the warmth of bedsheets, Still I sat there, doing spreadsheets: Having reached the bottom line, I took a floppy from the drawer. Typing with a steady hand, I then invoked the SAVE command But got instead a reprimand: it read "Abort, Retry, Ignore." Was this some occult illusion? Some maniacal intrusion? These were choices Solomon himself had never faced before. Carefully, I weighed my options. These three seemed to be the top ones. Clearly, I must now adopt one: Choose Abort, Retry, Ignore. With my fingers pale and trembling, Slowly toward the keyboard bending, Longing for a happy ending, hoping all would be restored, Praying for some guarantee Finally I pressed a key -- But on the screen what did I see? Again: "Abort, Retry, Ignore." I tried to catch the chips off-guard -- I pressed again, but twice as hard. Luck was just not in the cards. I saw what I had seen before. Now I typed in desperation Trying random combinations Still there came the incantation: Choose: Abort, Retry, Ignore. There I sat, distraught, exhausted, by my own machine accosted Getting up I turned away and paced across the office floor. And then I saw an awful sight: A bold and blinding flash of light -- A lightning bolt had cut the night and shook me to my very core. I saw the screen collapse and die "Oh no -- my database", I cried I thought I heard a voice reply, "You'll see your data Nevermore." To this day I do not know The place to which lost data goes I bet it goes to heaven where the angels have it stored. But as for productivity, well I fear that it goes straight to hell And that's the tale I have to tell Your choice: Abort, Retry, Ignore.