Re: The world is really unstable these days......

Alas to some everything ever written in computer history has Informix buried in it. Or rather RDS Software... While in my personal opinions I still believe that the Informix DB Engine is superior to Oracle, DB2 UDB and others on the Open Systems platform I have learned that this belief doesn't pay any of my bills. For the most part I have gone past this hurdle. Of course my first attempt was folly - I choose a DW/BI database to study and become proficient in only to see the same exact fate befall it (RedBrick) as happened to the Infomix core databases. Once again I believe that for most RedBrick is superior for any star or snowflake schema design DataMart or DataWarehouse. It is not meant to be an Enterprise Data Warehouse database - you can argue if there truly is a best database for that type of crystaline design Data Warehouse. Isn't it ironic that arguably the most successful database post Big Blue buyout is the little engine that could - Java compliant Cloudscape? When I can find work in it I will continue to work with Informix products but the people who send me bills each month don't care about the rest. I continue to troll this newsgroup mostly because of the relationships and the fact that I can contribute from time to time. And yes I still learn things from the masters (Thanks Art, Madison, etc.) Rob Vorbroker Infomix Bigot - Retired sending to informix-list