Future of SE ?
Christophe Maumont asked about the future of Informix SE and whether to migrate to IDS. mars1972 expected SE to survive but gain no new technology. Manel Falco said his firm moves customers to IDS for safety and recovery because SE has index corruption, though IDS is costly. David Stes liked SE's simplicity and noted 4GL/ESQL/DBI programs can move to IDS. No official answer.
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What do you think INFORMIX will do with SE (standard engine) ? Will they continue to support it, to devellope it ? Should we migrate to on-line or dynamic server ? SE is enough for our needs, it is cheaper than dynamic server and doesn't need administration. I'm alone to do every thing, analysing ,programming , teaching the users ... (I don't wash the floor but ...), so I wouldn't like to have to administrate our bases.
I don't think it will get any of the bleeding edge technology, but I don't think it will go away. It's too useful for small companies who don't need much. I could be wrong, though. It's happened once before. In article <8m44ju$t07$1@reader1.fr.uu.net>, "Christophe MAUMONT" <informatique@univitis.fr> wrote: > What do you think INFORMIX will do with SE (standard engine) ? Will they > continue to support it, to devellope it ? Should we migrate to on-line or > dynamic server ? > SE is enough for our needs, it is cheaper than dynamic server and > doesn't need administration. I'm alone to do every thing, analysing > ,programming , teaching the users ... (I don't wash the floor but ...), so I > wouldn't like to have to administrate our bases. > > -- # unrm / ksh: unrm: not found # man cpio Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.
We try to migrate our customers to IDS even the small ones because it's safer and has fast recovery. We have lots of problems with corrupted indexes and others with SE, especially when they have remote connections ... Yes IDS is tooooo expensive, besides that, It's mandatory to pay an abusive OPEN LINE service for a year, very useless and difficult to justifying to our customers ... That's the truth ... see Oracle and others ... Manel Falcó On Mon, 31 Jul 2000 15:38:14 GMT, mars1972@my-deja.com wrote: >I don't think it will get any of the bleeding edge technology, but I >don't think it will go away. It's too useful for small companies who >don't need much. > >I could be wrong, though. It's happened once before. > >In article <8m44ju$t07$1@reader1.fr.uu.net>, > "Christophe MAUMONT" <informatique@univitis.fr> wrote: >> What do you think INFORMIX will do with SE (standard engine) ? >Will they >> continue to support it, to devellope it ? Should we migrate to on-line >or >> dynamic server ? >> SE is enough for our needs, it is cheaper than dynamic server and >> doesn't need administration. I'm alone to do every thing, analysing >> ,programming , teaching the users ... (I don't wash the floor but >...), so I >> wouldn't like to have to administrate our bases. >> >>
Christophe MAUMONT wrote: > > What do you think INFORMIX will do with SE (standard engine) ? I don't know, but I love Informix SE because it's simple, and because it is OK if all you need to have is a database that has to be online only between office hours (9 to 5). In addition, the 4GL or ESQL or Perl DBI programs you write with SE, can also made to work with a more powerful database as IDS. -- David Stes Molenstraat 5 B-2018 Antwerpen, Vlaanderen, Belgie Tel +32 3 237 43 54 Fax +32 3 237 40 76 Email stes@pandora.be