Re: Fw: Company thought DB2 will be better than Oracle.
Part of a database-comparison flame thread. Daniel Morgan said Informix did much right but spent heavily on features developers did not want. Mark Townsend joked that Informix or IBM paid his Oracle salary. Andrew Hamm and Obnoxio The Clown continued the banter. No technical content.
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John Carlson wrote: >On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 14:20:22 GMT, Mark Townsend ><markbtownsend@attbi.com> wrote: > > > >>Obnoxio The Clown wrote: >> >> >> >>>I'm sure every vendor can dress up a bunch of useless proprietary extensions >>>and product design defects as features. :o) >>> >>> >>> >>Informix never managed to. >> >> > >So you're saying that Informix did something right? > > Informix has done a lot of things right though it might be most impolitic for Mark to say so. Perhaps the biggest mistake Informix made was not hiring Mark and ending up with marketing advice that led to investing huge sums into building capabilities developers didn't want at that point in time. In a financial sense the company never recovered. Which is not in any way a condemnation of the product and its technology. Daniel Morgan -- Daniel Morgan http://www.outreach.washington.edu/ext/certificates/oad/oad_crs.asp http://www.outreach.washington.edu/ext/certificates/aoa/aoa_crs.asp damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace 'x' with a 'u' to reply)
> Perhaps the biggest mistake Informix made was not hiring Mark There's a rumour that Informix (and now IBM) are actually paying my salary at Oracle.
Mark Townsend wrote: >> Perhaps the biggest mistake Informix made was not hiring Mark > > > There's a rumour that Informix (and now IBM) are actually paying my > salary at Oracle. > I've been noticing a certain comrade-in-arms relationship with Obnoxio there. Hmmm! Drop the price of 10g to prove you aren't. ;-) -- Daniel Morgan http://www.outreach.washington.edu/ext/certificates/oad/oad_crs.asp http://www.outreach.washington.edu/ext/certificates/aoa/aoa_crs.asp damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace 'x' with a 'u' to reply)
Daniel Morgan wrote: >> > I've been noticing a certain comrade-in-arms relationship with Obnoxio > there. Hmmm! They shared a gaol cell for a few years in Dartmore.
Andrew Hamm wrote: > Daniel Morgan wrote: >>> >> I've been noticing a certain comrade-in-arms relationship with Obnoxio >> there. Hmmm! > > They shared a gaol cell for a few years in Dartmore. No, neither one of us is Australian. -- Ciao, The Obnoxious One "Ogni uomo mi guarda come se fossi una testa di cazzo"