Re: Informix Directions

Yeah, um, but I heard that the SCO porting of Informix is over. There = will be no more SCO ports, and Informix is dumping the small end. What does this do to the market, and in particular, my career path? It = goes in the dumper to stay with Informix. Apparently this is probably what they = want, to alienate the majority of customers using Informix products, and stick = with a=20 few esoteric dungeons that use Informix on the high-end side. If the = plan is to concentrate on data warehousing, I certainly don't need Informix to = accomplish=20 data warehousing. Or Oracle or Sybase for that matter. =20 I could use the cheapest SQL "SE" type engine, on the right hardware, = and the=20 story is over. Guess where I'm going for *that*. And I can really get = nasty=20 on a competitive solution as far as that's concerned. After talking to = Informix folk who don't understand the market, this is going to get even easier = to compete=20 against Informix. Sorry, but a real competitor has to understand what = they're=20 up against. And for those that don't think UNIX, SQL-Server will be = there for those people. Clustered, and expensive, but no Informix in the = picture. DW technology is open, the concepts are open, and really with the latest = advancements in small-system clustering, there's absolutely no real need = for=20 XPS. ( Or whatever it's called now ) A business can literally set up = data=20 warehousing for next to nothing if the homework is done on clustering. = And that means a rather bland and uninteresting data base product that costs next to nothing can be a part of the architecture. It's going to get = fun, and too bad Informix decided to go the way they did. A majority of DW implementations will be attracted to low cost more than anything as they learn DW, and then maybe move into an XPS, but by then, they'll pick=20 something else besides Informix because there's probably going to be other vendors with more mindshare to choose from. =20 Go for it Informix, I hope your people have been saving their paychecks. I don't see how you call yourself a data base company and not include the low end of computing, which is experiencing the most vital rebirth in 10 years. Tim Tim Schaefer =20 tschaefe@mindspring.com=20 http://www.inxutil.com =20 ICQ:6358805 =20 #include <linux.h> Marco Greco wrote in message <6bv8vq$b59$1@news.xmission.com>... > >David Williams wrote: >>=20 >> It's not out yet, SCO is one of the last platforms ported to. >>=20 >> Informix port to >200 platforms and SCO is so sh*t that it is >> one of the last ones ported to. >>=20 >> PS I've heard a rumour that SCO UNIX will no longer exist soon, >> can anyone confirm this? > >Quite far from the truth. SCO has bought UnixWare from Novell, so while >OpenServer is going to disappear, SCO is definitely not. While they are >marketing both OS's, currently, their near future offering is going to = be a >single product with both OS5 & UW2 backward compatibility. >More than that, they're partnering with HP in a 64 bit Unix development = for the >Merced processor. > >Ciao, >Marco >________________________________________________________________________= _______ >Marco Greco, Catania, Italy = marcog@linux.ctonline.it >rem radioterapia +39 95 447828 = fax 446558 > >Informix faq = http://www.iiug.org/techinfo/faq/informix.htm >4glworks = http://www.ctonline.it/~marcog >Informix on Linux = http://www.ctonline.it/~marcog/ifmxlinux.htm