Re: Oracale Database System

DA Morgan wrote: > Sand Kicker wrote: >> DA Morgan wrote: >>> sergio@moredata.pt wrote: >>>> Hi >>>> >>>> Maybe you like to say Oracle. >>>> Informix is a much better database. For everithing including processing >>>> claims :-) >>>> >>>> S'rgio >>> >>> And with any luck at all there will be a job, in 5 years, for those who >>> hang on until the bitter end. >>> >>> From www.dice.com on 3/12/2006 >>> COBOL 1,289 jobs >>> Informix 392 jobs >>> PICK 201 jobs >>> FOX 121 jobs >>> >>> Informix is indeed an excellent product. That won't be enough to save it >>> from IBM's benign neglect. >> >> I'd be willing to bet that of those "Informix" jobs very few were >> actually >> Informix specific, most likely requiring skills in other technologies or >> disciplines. Most were probably looking to migrate away from Informix >> too, since there is hardly ever any traffic about new Informix customers. >> You hear about maybe one new Informix customer a year, but not much else. > > I'm inclined to agree but did not check them to see. They were just jobs > that listed Informix in the list of skills so they could have been Java > developer with Informix as a database to which the Java must connect. > > Still my point in pointing this out is not to be disrespectful of a > great database (sorry to disappoint you Obnoxio the Chav) but rather to > point out that the continuing neglect is killing it in the marketplace. Ever heard of the "Rainbow" vacuum cleaner? It's basically a 'power bong'. It sucks dirt into a water bowl, thus trapping the dirt in a bowl of water, and the remaining air coming out of the water is just air, without the dirt. Unfortunately it's a direct-market product, never sold in retail stores, and patented too, but you won't see it much if at all anymore. A classic case of great technology that was never marketed properly. It is a superior method to simply sucking dirt into a dry bag. Superior technology but hardly marketed. Inferior dry-bag vacuum cleaners have dominated the market for one reason only, great marketing.