Re: Informix free
Tom Grenier wrote: > > I really like Informix as a technical product, and prefer to work with it. But > I am realistic also, which I am scurrying as fast as I can to come up to speed > with Oracle. I can tell you horror stories about Informix sales and marketing > from when I was DBA at probably the most award winning on-line travel agency (of > which Informix was even an investor ' the travel agency was sold and now > running on Oracle). My current client is switching to Oracle because no one is > writing pharmaceutical-biotech software in Informix (there are several packages > in Oracle) and they don't want to have to write all their own software. > > Come on Informix, get your marketing/sales act together! Don't go the way of > DEC (great product with no marketing/sales). I'm afraid your comments will fall on deaf ears. Informix is the Betamax (or should that be MiniDisk?) of the database world! DEC did alright, they were bought by a company with lots of money and an interest in continuing to sell their products. I don't think there is a Compaq around for Informix. :-) All Informix need is to hire a decent marketing agency. It's simple I know, but it beats trying to hire the right people. Cheers, -- Mark. +----------------------------------------------------------+-----------+ | Mark D. Stock mailto:mdstock@mydas.freeserve.co.uk |//////// /| | http://www.informix.com http://www.informixhandbook.com |///// / //| | http://www.iiug.org +-----------------------------------+//// / ///| | |This email will self-destruct in |/// / ////| | |10 sec. If you received this email |// / /////| | |in error, sorry about the mess. |/ ////////| +----------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------+
"Mark D. Stock" <mdstock@mydas.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message news:96fl45$en4$1@news.xmission.com... > > All Informix need is to hire a decent marketing agency. It's simple I > know, but it beats trying to hire the right people. > Oh, maybe someone like Saatchi & Saatchi??? I for one am expecting to see some very positive results in the near future from Infx hiring S&S. They (S&S) are doing their homework right now -- "focus groups" around the US, and even a few overseas. Infx recognizes very well that they have had ineffective marketing in the past. The new management team is working hard to fix that, as well as to fix many other customer-relationship problems. Yeah, I know... "I've heard all this before"... But I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, this time. AFAIK, this is really the first time that Infx management has really admitted to past company failings and faced up to them -- without trying to rationalize and make excuses. In case you can't tell, I am really encouraged by what I am hearing and by what I am *seeing* coming from Infx these days. Let's give them a chance... Paul Mosser