Re: OT:Is IBM going to be marketing Informix

On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 17:15:13 +0000 (UTC), wjjordan@nortel.ca (Jim Jordan) wrote: >In article <2r10d8F14mpqtU1@uni-berlin.de>, >Captain Pedantic <theharlequin36@hotmail.com> wrote: > >>And who hid it? > >The usual suspects ... Informix marketing, Orable overstaters, IBM >acquisitions ... > >And for John's question: IBM is like a cat. You can't tell it >anything. It has to discover things by itself. How long it takes to >learn something is entirely up to the cat. > And as a cat owner, this makes sense . . . >Unfortunately, that discovery is only made by small pockets of people >working directly with the (compared against DB2) small number of >Informix customers. It might have been heard all the way up the data >management unit's food chain, but then it hasn't found its way back down >to all of the account reps yet. I'll be charitable and attribute that >to the momentum DB2 had within IBM's account team, and the density of >the corporate structure through which the value statements around >Informix must flow. > Momentum or inertia? 8-) . .. some stuff clipped . . . > >Now, if IBM open-sourced Informix (they won't in the short term; there's >too much good stuff for DB2 to grab first), then someone could do >something similar to one of the O'Reilly shirts on thinkgeek.com: >"Informix? Il y a moins bien, mais c'est plus cher." > I seem to remember that Lawson Software is going to discontinue support for Informix in favor of DB2/UDB. I wonder if IBM went back to them with their most recent (marketing) development . . . JWC