Re: News Flash! Informix FREE! on NT!!!!

I couldn't agree more with David here. We would sure use UDO if it where not for the price. On Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:58:37 GMT, davek@summitdata.com (David Kosenko) wrote: >Seth Grimes wrote: >+>> >+>> Here's the biggest catch with the free software: >+>> >+>> The free DB server software is 7.30, not 9.14 (formerly Universal >+>> Server). You'd think that Informix lacks confidence in its OR >+>> technology given the company's apparent reluctance to make 9.14 >+>> available to developers as part of this promotion. > >I think Informix still thinks UDO is something customers will be willing to pay extra >for, so obviously they aren't going to give it away. I keep telling everyone at >Informix who will listen to me that they should make THE server UDO (and by the way, >UDO is not really an "add-on" to IDS, it is a whole new server, what used to be >called IUS - Informix Universal Server. Only the name has changed.), so if you buy >an Informix server, you have extensibility built in. That would be a true >distinction from the competition. If extensibility was available at no extra cost, >you would get developers using it because it is already there, and pretty soon you >just might wind up with a lot of applications that REQUIRE Informix because no other >dbms has that type of extensibility. Developers adding business logic to their >database might realize they have the components of a marketable datablade, and start >selling them, adding more momentum to Informix. They would realize more training and >consulting revenue. All in all, a big win. By setting the cost of entrance high, >they are discouraging wide adoption of the product. But I digress... > >+At 06:27 AM 6/17/98 , Mike Segel wrote: >+>Uhmm, >+>I thought Informix was nuking the 9.x line and doing a code merge into >+>the 7.x >+>stream. I think the idea is to create a single code stream for all >+>products then >+>have the customer buy the modules for the things they need like XPS.... > >Jon Vemo <jon@etcscan.com> offerred: >+You're right, but my understanding is that this merged code stream will >+be labelled 9.3 > >Indeed, the word I heard was that 7.3 will be the last major release of version 7. >Next version out will be a merging of 7.3 and 9.14 code streams. But UDO will STILL >be extra, even though it is the same executables. Last I heard, there will be some >sort of serial # enabling to "turn on" the UDO piece. Still time for that to change, >though. > >Dave > >** Dave Kosenk <davek@summitdata.com> >** Director of Training Services (732) 469-4070 >** Summit Data Group (an Informix Authorized Education Center) >** Find my advice useful? Let me teach you everything I know about >** Informix. Sign up for OFFICIAL Informix training at SDG. >** For details, see http://www.summitdata.com/training Nils Myklebust NM Data AS Norway E-mail: Nils.Myklebust@nmdata.com FAQ at: http://www.iiug.org/techinfo/faq/faq_top.html (Now with ODBC info under "Third party products".)