Re: These crazy emails about IDS to DB2 conversion
My experience as a small developer in Australia, is that our clients, if told Informix was nolonger supported/available, would prefer we move to MSSQL. Which is a lot of work since our server platform is SCO / Linux. We are seriously looking at a move to Open Source DB, Linux or CygWin if the customer insists in Windows server. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Schaefer" <tim@spamethnot.com> To: <informix-list@iiug.org> Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 11:36 PM Subject: Re: These crazy emails about IDS to DB2 conversion > The marketplace has a wonderful way of changing peoples minds. > > Is IBM willing to talk about NEW Informix customers? I heard > something awhile back that there are some new Informix customers > but haven't heard anything lately. The savage comments about > DB2 like the one below are a clear indicator that many people > simply haven't looked at anything else besides their beloved > Informix. Wait till you get in a position to hire people to > support various database products, you might learn some things > about what managers are looking for vs a bunch of angry techies. > Go look at the college grads today, this years' crop, and see > what you have to work with, you'll find out quickly what I'm > talking about. > > By the way, just in reading some of the feature requests people > are looking for, it does put some chinks in the Informix armor. > Some of those requested features are already available in competing > products. DB2 doesn't look that bad in the final analysis even > with some of the "superior" features of Informix. Maybe some of > that "superiority" isn't. > > Tim > > "Obnoxio The Clown" <obnoxio@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:c0a6v6$13ljdn$2@ID-64669.news.uni-berlin.de... > > Rodney Sheppard wrote: > > > > > If it had 'DB2' in the name I wouldn't go near it, even if it was > > > really Informix. > > > I for one am sick of seeing DB2 mentioned on this group. > > > If Informix is merged into DB2, and the becomes no longer > > > available in its curent form, AND NAME, I'll be moving to > > > MSSQL for windows, and Mysql for Unix. > > > > What a petulant and childish attitude. I second the motion! :o) > > > > > > sending to informix-list sending to informix-list