Re: Is Informix Dead??

In article <1993Nov23.194704.15909@gasco.com> tbk@gasco.com (Theron B Kousek x5933) writes: >What's the deal with Informix??? Why am I seeing so many job postings >for Sybase and Oracle and very few for Informix??? I have worked with >Informix for over 4 years and now with Sybase for about a year and >basically, Informix is just as good as Sybase. Why are so many companies >"avoiding" Informix in favor of Sybase/Oracle??? Lack of advertisement??? > >I worked on "what was heralded" as the countries largest application-based >distributorship system written in C for over 4 years. They used Informix >as their RDBMS of choice and Informix was quite a reliable DBMS. > >Opinions, comments??? I have wondered this same question. And, although I have had some MAJOR complaints with INFORMIX of MSDOS 4.1 (It still SUCKS!), I'm sold on their unix stuff... Its seems that the competetion is fierce these days regarding databases and Informix needs to relate to the windows environment with ease. I'm hoping that will happen in our lifetime ;-) Bob -- _____ _____ ______ _____ _____ ___ ___ _____ __ | ___| |_ / |_ _|| _ \\ / _ \\ \\ \\/ / | ___| | | | ___| / /_ | | | / | _ | \\ / | ___| | |__ |_____| /_____| |__| |__|__\\ \\_/ \\_/ \\__/ |_____| |_____| ______ C O R P O R A T E T R A V E L S P E C I A L I S T S _______ * Open 7 Days eztravel@netcom.com * 64+ Int'l Toll-Free #'s * 24 Hr Voice Mail Tel: (408) 978-0808 * Preferred Rates * 24 Hr Paging Fax: (408) 978-7024 * Internet e-mail ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~